That the World Trade Organization was able to come to any kind of deal at its 12th ministerial meeting last week was something of a miracle. The organization has been dead for years as a location for trade governance — and even longer as a place for successful negotiations.

The US Department of Commerce has extended the time to consider requests for investigation of trade remedy tax evasion with respect to some steel pipe products imported from Vietnam for another 15 days.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Switzerland has promoted trade and investment in the cities of Zurich and Lugano in two separate events held earlier this month with the help of local authorities and corporations Fidinam Group and Bellecapital Group which are doing business in Vietnam.

Manufacturing growth is slowing worldwide as China's COVID-19 curbs and Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupt supply chains and keep inflation at the highest in years, while the growing risk of a U.S. recession poses a new threat to the global economy.

Seafood exporters in Việt Nam may find the second half of 2022 a challenging period compared to the first due to slowing global economic growth, despite a successful first half of the year, according to a conference held by the Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

The demand for importing wooden furniture and interior decoration from Canada is quite large, but the proportion of Vietnamese goods in this market is still modest. It is forecast that Vietnamese furniture and interior decoration products still have many opportunities to boost exports to Canada, even through this "gateway" to penetrate the North American market.

A trade and investment promotion conference is one of a series of 50 events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Agriculture, fisheries and pharmaceuticals are potential areas for cooperation between localities of Vietnam and India’s Andhra Pradesh state.

Vietnam is likely to replace India and Indonesia in supplying agro-forestry-fishery products to the UK market, experts said at a workshop held on June 23 to seek to fully tap into the UK's market potential from the UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA).

Vietnam and Australia trade have been on an upward trajectory with the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) further adding and cementing bilateral trade between both countries.

China should take an objective and cautious attitude towards US President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), top-ranking former Chinese officials have said. The IPEF, which is not a traditional free-trade agreement but seeks to establish rules covering areas from data protection to carbon emissions, was launched in Tokyo last month.