Việt Nam will work closely with South Korea to foster trade and investment, a conference heard in HCM City yesterday (July 22).

China’s economic slowdown is spilling over to major exporting nations in Europe and East Asia through falling demand for manufactured goods, causing Germany and South Korea to post rare deficits with the world’s second-largest economy.

Vietnam and Australia enjoyed strong growth in two-way trade in the first half of this year at 38.45% to 8.01 billion USD for the first time, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Australia.

The European Union (EU) appreciates Vietnam's potential and wishes to further strengthen cooperation with the country to build a sustainable agricultural product supply chain, Janusz Wojciechowski, EU Commissioner for Agriculture, has said.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is opening up an array of opportunities for local enterprises to bolster the export of agricultural products to member countries, according to industry insiders.

The garment sector generated export revenue of 22.3 billion USD in the first six months of 2022, up 17.7% over the same period last year, according to the industry association Vitas.

Singapore and South American trade bloc Mercosur have "substantively concluded" negotiations on a free trade agreement that is expected to lower business costs, ease tariffs and facilitate new ways of doing business, such as through e-commerce.

The European Union said China agreed to work together to address global food insecurity, including through the export of fertilizers, after holding a bilateral meeting on trade and financial services.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment has issued two circulars specifying instructions for handling bidding packages under the UK-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement.

The European Union will amend its sanctions on Moscow on Wednesday by allowing the unfreezing of some funds of top Russian banks that may be required to ease bottlenecks in the global trade of food and fertilisers, a draft document showed.