Canada’s regulation of its dairy industry — specifically, its supply management system for dairy (which uses production controls and tariffs to protect domestic dairy farmers) — has been a long-standing point of contention with Canada’s trading partners. In particular, Canada’s application of import controls, known as “tariff rate quotas” (TRQs), has raised concern among other dairy producers, notably the U.S. and New Zealand.

The southern key economic region is still the first choice for foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises after the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the advantages and equipment in terms of infrastructure, traffic, and human resources.

In April 2022, India and Australia endorsed the Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), an ’early harvest agreement’, intended to be the first step towards a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA).

The United States on Thursday added 71 Russian and Belarusian entities to its trade blacklist including several aircraft factories and shipbuilding and research institutes in its latest effort to deprive the Russian military of U.S. technology and other items.

Ambassador Nguyen Van Thao, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the EU, has met with EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski to discuss ways for fostering agricultural cooperation between the two sides.

Việt Nam and Malaysia have great potential to promote trade and investment with Malaysia being one of the most important importers of Vietnamese goods in Southeast Asia in the post-pandemic period, a HCM City official said.

The United States Department of Commerce (DoC) on May 24 launched an investigation into wooden cabinets imported into the US from both Vietnam and Malaysia, reported the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV).

On the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Business Summit in 2022, which just took place in Hanoi, Mr. John Rockhold, President of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Vietnam spoke with a reporter from Customs Magazine. According to General Director of Chan May LNG Joint Stock Company, Vietnam and the US have many bright prospects for bilateral trade and investment relationships as both sides are attractive destinations for businesses.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), with its market of 2.2 billion people in 15 nations, has been forming the largest free trade area in the world. Vietnam is deliberately promoting goods export, especially seafood, to this lucrative market as its next strategic economic step.

The EU has informed the World Trade Organisation (WTO) of its decision to extend steel safeguards until 2024, now with a global quota for some products affected by Ukraine, and with Vietnam added to the "other countries" quota for hot-dip galvanised (HDG).