The 28th Vietnam International Trade Fair (Vietnam Expo) officially opened in Hanoi on April 11, attracting more than 550 booths from 500 enterprises both at home and abroad.
Recognizing the problems in the tax refund, and to facilitate the taxpayers, the Ministry of Finance has proposed to amend the provisions on tax refund in the draft Law amending and supplementing some articles of the Law on Export Tax and Import Tax No. 107/2016/QH13.
Foreign companies outsourcing operations to reduce costs and improve market share is nothing new. The only things that seem to change are the companies changing the way that operations are relocated, and the countries that manage to attract capital inflows.
On March 8, the 11 remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) signed the sweeping trade deal, just over a year after the United States’ withdrawal. That same day, in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump authorized tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday (April 10) delivered a speech at the opening plenary of the annual Boao Forum for Asia on China's southern Hainan island.
Vietnam’s shipments are part of China’s value chain and may be badly hit, while U.S. companies may leave China for Vietnam to avoid high taxes.
Assessments of ASEAN as a regional integration endeavour often fail to separate the organisation’s underlying objectives from those that appear on the surface. Analysts assume, perhaps understandably, that the primary purpose of regional cooperation agreements is to increase regional integration.
Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Dr. Christina Davis – Professor at the Department of Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and author of Food Fights Over Free Trade (2003) and Why Adjudicate?
The recent spat and open trade war between the US and China, with several other heavyweights stepping into the fray, has indeed been ‘interesting’.
Escalating tensions between the U.S. and China could hurt a global trade expansion that’s already expected to be lower this year than in 2017, the World Trade Organization said Thursday.
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