Canada still has a trade deficit in beef with Europe, but it is getting smaller. Trade data from Statistics Canada for the first seven months of 2023 shows that Canada exported $16.3 million worth of beef to the EU. That’s up from $12.2 million in the same period in 2022.

Britain and South Korea have agreed to extend a period of low or zero tariffs on bilateral trade by two years, ahead of talks to forge a new trade deal, the British government said on Monday, in a boost for the car industry.

A workshop discussing opportunities for Canadian industrial and technological businesses in the Vietnamese market has been held recently in British Columbia, Cambodia.

Officials in the United States have recently become increasingly concerned that investments by the country's venture capital firms in China's high-tech sectors, such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors and quantum computing, are helping the Chinese government develop emerging and critical technologies that could be used to undermine US national security.

South Korea has signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), marking its first such agreement with a Middle Eastern country and its 24th FTA overall.

In contrast to the gloomy picture of many industries, from the beginning of the year until now, many agricultural products have continuously recorded new records in export, with worth of billions of dollars. This is an important driving force for the agricultural industry to continue to "breakthrough" in the remaining months of 2023.

The activity comes as part of the new US-Việt Nam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership announced during US President Joseph Biden’s visit to Việt Nam at the invitation of the Party leader Nguyễn Phú Trọng last month.

The Vietnamese Embassy in the Czech Republic has recently organised a programme to foster connectivity between Vietnamese and Czech businesses, and introduce Vietnamese products to local residents.

Vietnamese pepper is now one of the key export products to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) market.

The image of Vietnamese brands, which is relatively modest in the CPTPP market, needs to be improved in a bid to tap the tremendous potential of this market, experts have advised.