The Informal Working Group on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) on 26 April discussed the benefits of digitalisation for small business, the role of intellectual property rights in facilitating small business access to finance, and how MSMEs deal with sustainability standards. The Group appointed Ambassador Matthew Wilson of Barbados as its new coordinator.

The Vietnamese Trade Office in India and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on April 26 organised a webinar on BIS’s regulations and certification procedures for foreign manufacturers, attracting the participation of more than 60 Vietnamese firms.

Two-way trade between Viet Nam and Argentina has increased strongly to US$4.88 billion in 2022, making Argentina the fifth largest trade partner of Viet Nam in the Latin American region and Viet Nam the sixth biggest trade partner of Argentina globally.

In the first quarter of 2023, the average export price of Vietnamese rice reached US$529/ton, an increase of nearly 9 percent against the same period last year.

The Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore has unveiled its intention to beef up Vietnam-Singapore business connection and the volume of Vietnamese exports to the Singaporean market.

The EFTA includes Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland as its members and is a non-European Union (EU) bloc.

The growth of the number of new projects was much higher than that of investment capital, which demonstrated that small and medium-sized foreign investors continued to believe in the country's investment environment, the FIA has said.

Shrimp exporting companies have raised and recommended to the Government to resolve some existing issues that are making Vietnam's shrimp industry less competitive than other shrimp-farming countries such as India and Ecuador.

Guangdong Evergreen Group, one of the leading Chinese aquaculture companies, will export for the first time 2,000 pairs of the company's seed shrimps to Vietnam, the chairman of the company told the Global Times.

Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Long spoke of cooperation opportunities between Birmingham and Vietnam, especially its big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in the fields of education-training, health care and culture, during his recent meeting with the city’s Lord Mayor Maureen Cornish.