Việt Nam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas) said the total export value of textiles, fiber, and cloth reached US$25.7 billion in the first 8 months of the year, up 8.6 per cent year on year, including 60.6 per cent from foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises.
Thailand will hold bilateral negotiations with Japan, New Zealand and India in an attempt to finish talks on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by November.
Circular 38/2015/ TT-BTC and Circular 39/2018/TT-BTC which have great impacts on the business community are being studied, amended and supplemented by the General Department of Vietnam Customs in line with the practical situation to facilitate the business community and improve the efficiency of State management of customs.
Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of over 1 billion USD with the 10 other members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership CPTPP in the seven months since the deal took effect in the country in January.
Ambassador Dương Chí Dũng, head of Viet Nam’s Permanent Mission to the UN, the WTO and other international organisations, is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the impact of climate change on human rights, which opened in Geneva on Monday (local time).
Vietnam considers economy-trade a pillar in its cooperation with the US, stated head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh.
Vietnam has initiated anti-dumping investigations on certain carbon steel imports from China following a request by domestic producers.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz in Hanoi on September 10, pledging to encourage Vietnamese firms’ investment in the Caribbean nation.
Việt Nam encourages businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to invest in specialised industrial parks targeting Korean firms and Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The Vietnamese Government has paid great attention to strengthening cooperation with the US as well as partnership between Vietnamese localities and US states in areas of shared interests, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
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