After a year of negotiations and an additional four months of legal scrubbing the first agreement negotiated as part of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) has been released. The IPEF Agreement Relating to Supply Chain Resilience gives us the first concrete insights into what IPEF could add to the region’s economic architecture.

China has just implemented a new regulation of checking imported textile and garment products quality, informed the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry of Trade on October 16.

If enterprises only receive pure outsourcing orders, in the short and medium term it will help them stabilize their orders, but in the long term, those values will increasingly drain away from them. That also means that market opportunities from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are increasingly decreasing.

Currently, lobster consumption is mainly exported to the Chinese market through unofficial channels which requires Vietnamese businesses to look for official export channels.

The Biden administration's latest round of export curbs on China is part of a two-pronged strategy aiming to halt Beijing's technological advances over fears it could use the innovations to bolster its military, while at the same time spending billions to lure more chip manufacturing back to the U.S.

China and Serbia on Tuesday signed a free trade agreement (FTA), the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.

China-Australia trade relations have seen a continuous positive trend, with the first nine months witnessing a 10.2 percent year-on-year growth in trade volume, while the momentum has been quickly restored to business activities on both sides, an expert view as a promising indicator for the two major trading partners.

The EU has abandoned a promise to ban all but the most vital of toxic chemicals used in everyday consumer products, leaked documents show.

The European Union will seek this week to ward off the return of Trump-era metals tariffs and to lessen the negative impact on the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and its subsidies for electric vehicles.

Foreign investment and investors have been and will continue to play a crucial role in Việt Nam's socio-economic development, heard participants at a conference held yesterday in Hà Nội to discuss ways to encourage growth, implement fair treatment, stimulate innovation and enhance the efficiency of investment cooperation.