Switzerland and the United Kingdom signed an agreement to create more efficient and globally competitive conditions for cross-border trade in financial services with the new “Berne Financial Services Agreement” (BFSA).

The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the UAE and Serbia is the first with a country that is not a member of the World Trade Organisation, Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade has said.

Vietnam and France will promote collaboration in railway, sea and inland waterway transport under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently signed between Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang and Director of the French Development Agency (AFD) Phillipe Orliange.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Algeria and Tunisia last week coordinated with the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) to organise a conference to connect Vietnamese businesses and their peers in in Tunis.

Several Vietnamese enterprises are able to manufacture hundreds of individual wind turbine components at a time and sell them directly to foreign wind power companies or major turbine suppliers.

Windermere Berry Farm in Whanganui opens its cafe on October 14 for what is expected to be its best season yet and intends to export to Vietnam for the first time.

Although the export turnover of the textile, garment and footwear industry accounts for a high proportion of the total import-export turnover of the country, the contribution of domestic enterprises is still limited. In fact, the Vietnamese textile, garment and footwear industry is still focused on the processing stage, with low added value creation capacity.

European Union members face a pivotal vote on Friday on whether to impose tariffs of up to 45% on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles in the bloc's highest profile trade case, which risks retaliation from Beijing.

Vietnamese Tra fish (pangasius) exports to the Colombian market fetched US$35 million during the past eight months of this year, accounting for more than half of the market share in the Colombian whitefish market.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan authorised by the Minister of Industry and Trade, and Irish Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on economic and trade ties between the two ministries in Dublin, Ireland, on October 2 within the framework of the State visit to Ireland made by Party General Secretary and President To Lam.