Today, the very countries that have spent 70 years building multilateral institutions and establishing global trade rules are busy undermining them. In this context, the absence of even a whiff of protest against financial integration demands explanation.
If there's one hot-button issue that really gets Trump going -- and wins him votes -- it's trade. He tore up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on his fourth day in office (not his first, as he had promised), reopened the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico last year, and recently started a virtual trade war (though mostly a war of words) with China.
The Prime Minister has asked ministries and localities to boost control on unsafe seafood exports and remove poor quality aquaculture products that failed to conduct food safety regulations at import markets.
Unifying import and export activities, further facilitating the enterprises for the development of border trade in Mong Cai city and at the same time improving the efficiency of the State management on Customs are the objectives which Quang Ninh Customs Department has set to deploy the centralized Customs clearance and management Model in Mong Cai.
Many Vietnamese firms are set to participate in the 2018 Selangor International Business Summit (SIBS) in Malaysia to exchange information and seek business opportunities, a meeting heard in Ho Chi Minh City on April 16.
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.
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