While global trade policies take place among the world’s powerful economies, small economies like Vietnam have to sustain enormous impact from the shifts in policies.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) seemed to have died when President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement early last year.
The Mekong Delta is one of Vietnam’s key agricultural hubs, producing masses of rice, seafood, and fruits. Currently rice production occupies 54% of the total farm land in the region, contributing more than 90% of Vietnam’s rice for export and bringing in billions of USD in revenue each year.
US President Donald Trump has labelled the World Trade Organization a “catastrophe” in a wide-ranging attack on the international trade regulator. His administration is seeking to renegotiate all US trade deals.
South Korea will step up efforts to play a key role in the process of integrating the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said Kim Young-chae, South Korea's new ambassador to ASEAN.
US president Donald Trump has said that he has pushed for changing the World Trade Organisation, which in its current avatar is ripping off American economy and businesses.
Bangladesh is looking for broader trade and investment ties with Vietnam and is preparing to make the best use of the upcoming visit of the Vietnam president to Bangladesh.
The permanent Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation and other international organisations in Geneva, Switzerland held an early spring gathering on February 25.
An Australian delegation will visit Việt Nam from February 26 to March 2 to learn about the processing chain for shrimps exported to Australia.
Automobile imports in Việt Nam plummeted in the first month of 2018, also the time before Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday. Only 337 cars of all kinds were shipped to the country, according to data of the General Department of Customs.
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