The animal husbandry industry, valued at $23.7 billion, is still struggling with the question of the circular economy. Its by-products, 75 million tons per annum, are being wasted.

Việt Nam has been focusing on exporting fruits rather than meet domestic demand, leading to a monopoly by imports, analyst said.

Businesses from localities of Vietnam and France gathered at a forum in Hanoi on April 15 to discuss cooperation possibilities.

Australia has so far opened its market for four kinds of fresh fruit from Vietnam - dragon fruit, lychee, mango and longan, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The European Union (EU)’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which is set to take effect in 2024, will impact production and trade activities of Vietnamese manufacturers, especially in high carbon emission industries like iron and steel, aluminium and cement, as well as the whole economy, said experts.

Trade ties between Vietnam and Uruguay have still not been commensurate with the potential of the two countries, delegates heard at the third meeting of the Vietnam - Uruguay Joint Committee for Economic, Trade and Investment Cooperation held online recently in Hanoi and Montevideo.

Australia and China have reached an agreement to end a long-standing trade dispute over barley imports. In 2018, Beijing imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on Australian barley that suddenly halted its exports to China, causing significant losses for Australian barley farmers

EC has been compiling a dossier to monitor the level of 2-chloroethanol residues in rice paper products, phở (dried noddles), and bún (vermicelli noodles) imported from the Vietnamese market.

ASEAN and China started the first round of negotiations on the upgrade of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) at a meeting of the Working Group on Standards, Technical Regulations, and Conformity Assessment Procedures (WG-STRACAP) on April 11.

Despite growth rates slowing down, the nation is still growing at a high rate, projected to be at 5.8% this year before reaching 6.9% in 2024, according to Daniel Leigh, head of the World Economic Studies division in the IMF's Research Department which produces the World Economic Outlook.