Currently, Việt Nam ranks 15th among countries exporting rice to the UK, making up a modest 0.42 per cent of the total import turnover to this country. That means the door is wide open for Vietnamese rice in the market.

For a world desperate for economic growth, faced with the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the latest numbers out of China have registered as more bad news. The world’s top locomotive — which has driven more than one-fifth of global gross domestic product growth — sputtered badly in the second quarter of the year.

Over the last decade, Vietnam has become a top destination for investment in manufacturing thanks to lower labour costs, simpler supply chain integration, better free trade access, and relative political stability

Shi Jielian, foreign trade manager of Guangxi Yongjiang Food Industry Co., Ltd., obtained the 13th certificate of origin under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for her company this year, as she received an electronic invoice of “approval” from Nanning Customs in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Vietnamese rice in small bags has recently hit the shelves of Japan, Europe, Canada, and the United States, showing the unrelenting efforts by businesses to increase the value of the product in the international market.

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.

Vietnam attaches importance to and wishes to take relations with Latin American countries, including Mexico, to new heights, National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue told Mexican Senate President Olga Sanchez Cordero during online talks held on July 18.

Importers of technology products from China paid over $32 billion worth of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump between mid-2018 to the end of 2021, a new trade group report showed on Tuesday as the Biden administration continues to deliberate over whether to remove some duties.

A joint statement calling for urgent action to address the global food security crisis was issued by the heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Food Programme and the WTO on 15 July.

Indonesia has temporarily waives its export levy for all palm oil products until August 31 in an attempt to beef up exports and ease high inventories.