The automobile sector in Pakistan is facing the brunt of the current economic crisis. The balance of payments-related challenges, which have led to not only restrictions on imports but also an economic slowdown, have hurt sales of new automobiles in the country.

The US government’s stepped-up controls that target less advanced lithography systems have exposed China’s deficiency in chip-making equipment, despite recent progress towards Beijing’s overall goal of semiconductor self-sufficiency.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is close monitoring rice production and the world rice market with a view to promptly tackling arising problems and facilitating rice production, business and export.

Free Trade Agreement with Gulf Cooperation Council has neither been signed nor yet finalised at any forum

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked relevant ministries and localities to ensure resources to fix limitations and shortcomings in the fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Another month, another new record for China's primary aluminium production sector.

The effects of bans/restrictions on rice, wheat and sugar shipments are showing in declining agri exports from India, even as imports are continuing unhindered and hurting farmers.

The price of bananas in the United Kingdom has remained remarkably stable over the past three decades, and an unexpected twist in the form of Brexit could potentially cause banana prices to fall. As of now, a kilogram of bananas costs around 115 pence (equivalent to €1.32), which astonishingly matches the price back in 1990.

A delegation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) led by Deputy Director of the ministry’s Agency of Foreign Trade Tran Quoc Toan and representatives from 19 Vietnamese rice exporters have paid a working visit to Beijing, China to promote Vietnamese rice in the market.

There remains an ample room for cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Vietnam in the fields of pharmaceuticals, food stuff and automobile industry, European Commission (EC) Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, who is also the EU's Trade Commissioner, has said.