The World Bank (WB) released the June edition of its monthly Vietnam Macro Monitoring on June 13, highlighting that the economic recovery remained strong despite heightened global uncertainties.

Russian ships and sea mines block Ukrainian Black Sea ports. Before the war, Ukraine exported on average about 6 million tons of agri-commodities monthly to countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Currently, only about 15 to 20 percent of this volume can be exported via rail, Danube river, and trucks (about 700,000 tons in April 2022 and about 1 million tons in May 2022).

Rejecting the current text on fisheries subsidy negotiations, India on Tuesday said WTO members engaged in distant water fishing should stop providing any kind of subsides for 25 years as they provide significantly higher support measures and are indiscriminately exploiting the fisheries resources.

Efforts in food safety control, including the establishment of a task force granting food safety certificates to noodles, have won recognition from the EU, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Speaking on LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr, the former Chancellor implied that he still felt Brexit was the wrong decision after having stood firmly against it during 2016's referendum.

There remains untapped potential for Việt Nam's exports of agricultural and food products to major markets in Asia, Europe and America, but it is important for Vietnamese enterprises to improve the quality of their products, sharpen their competitiveness, and better grasp current international consumption trends, experts have said.

The U.S. has initiated an antidumping and countervailing investigation into Vietnam and Malaysia’s wooden cabinets, which it suspects were imported from China.

According to Dang Phuc Nguyen, General Secretary of the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association, after the market share of Vietnamese vegetables and fruits in China dropped sharply in the first five months of the year, the export of vegetables and fruits to this market is forecasted to facein difficulties in the near future.

Vietnam's effective management, combined with continued progress in laying the foundations for sustained medium-term growth, provides sound reasons to be optimistic about economic prospects for 2022 and beyond.

Vietnam considers the US a leading important partner and stands ready to work together with the country to deepen the bilateral comprehensive partnership in an effective and practical manner, on the basis of respect for independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and political institutions of each other, Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has affirmed.