The Fourth Industrial Revolution has become a buzzword in Vietnam, but locals rarely regard it as a technology that helps them make more money online and improve their daily lives. What many are most concerned about is that they could lose their jobs, as robots might be capable of handling the position they are in.
With Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - CPTPP (the former TPP without the US), Vietnam will miss many benefits it once expected to get because the country still doesn’t have an FTA with the US, while it has multilateral and bilateral FTAs with most CPTPP member countries.
Tran Tuan Anh, Minister of Industry and Trade talks to the newspaper Hai Quan (Customs) on how to make the best use of free-trade agreements that have been signed.
From 2010 to 2017, the pepper industry has achieved speedy growth in both area size and productivity. However, this speedy growth has revealed serious consequences. If these consequences had not been removed they might have broken the industry, caused unmarketability, and reduced the product’s prestige.
According to Decree 15/2018/ND-CP replacing Decree No. 38/2012/ND-CP guiding some articles of the Law on Food Safety promulgated by the Government and effective from 2nd February 2018, the management of food safety will have many changes for facilitating enterprises.
This is the target of National Steering Committee on ASEAN Single Window, National Single Window and Trade Facilitation that was set in the third meeting of the Committee.
A confident, rules-based environment for international trade has made possible the remarkable improvements in East Asian living standards over the past 50 years. This environment — created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor in the World Trade Organization (WTO) — remains essential for the future. But its survival cannot be taken for granted.
The apathy of the US president towards international trade (or more particularly imports to the US market) and his overall USA first and anti-globalisation rhetoric is well discussed.
Global trade in goods will continue growing above trend during the second quarter, the World Trade Organization’s quarterly outlook indicator showed on Monday.
Auto workers and manufacturers are rejecting assertions by Canada’s trade minister that the country won major access for them into the highly protected Japanese market in the recently rebooted Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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