The markets are spooked, but we need a new world order which makes room for local solutions and the nation state. The significance of the trade war between China and the US goes well beyond the impact of tit-for-tat tariffs, or which of two self-styled strongmen wins the bragging rights.
After more than a year of deliberation, ASEAN adopted the ‘ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific’ on 23 June. The outlook then got an airing at the ASEAN Regional Forum meetings in Bangkok. The document ‘provides a guide for ASEAN’s engagement in the Asia–Pacific and Indian Ocean regions’ and resembles an Indonesian-conceived plan.
No longer an "easy-going" market, China has been increasing its demand for imported agricultural and aquatic products. This creates not only difficulties and challenges, but also opportunities for Vietnamese agriculture and fisheries to reconsider, change and make good use of opportunities to promote exports to the billion-population market.
Deputy Minister of Natural Resource and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan said: “Rejecting imported scrap with high risk of causing environmental pollution, low efficiency of recycling, plastic scap containing dangerous additives with high risk of causing environmental pollution in the recycling process or plastic scrap recovered mainly from household waste.”
The General Department of Vietnam Customs issued a document guiding provincial customs departments to receive and check the validity of C/O in the framework of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
The bloc’s establishment and development path over the past five decades has been followed up by the resilient efforts of its member countries, with a compass aimed at realising the spirit of the Bangkok Declaration “For a Southeast Asian region of peace, freedom and prosperity”.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has just provided comments for the Circular draft on products and goods of Vietnam and products and goods produced in Vietnam.
Vietnam will spare no effort to further promote its relations with the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said while receiving Federica Mogherini, Vice President of the European Commission and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in Hanoi on August 5.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh attended the 26th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Bangkok on August 2, within the framework of the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and related meetings.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 8th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Intersessional Ministerial Meeting which took place in Beijing, China, on August 3.
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