In the morning of 9/5, Director General of Vietnam Customs, Nguyen Van Can, had a meeting session and discussed with Mr. Giles Lever, Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Vietnam and representative of UK Customs in Asia, about the potential areas of cooperation between Vietnam Customs and UK Customs.
Vietnam imported around 451 million USD worth of fruit and vegetable in the first four months of this year, with 107 million USD spent in April alone.
Minister Heng Swee Keat laid out three goals for an Inclusive and Informed Digital ASEAN: (1) growing the digital economy, (2) nurturing an inclusive digital society, and (3) building a trusted digital ecosystem.
The prospect of the Vietnamese rice export sector later this year is forecast to be bright given the nation’s recent successful bids for supplying rice for Indonesia and the Philippines.
In the face of potential US tariffs on Chinese-made shoes, numerous world-famous shoe and handbag manufacturers are mulling over shifting sourcing to Vietnam.
Imports of completely-built-up (CBU) cars to Vietnam will most likely take a quantum leap in months to come as authorities in some Asian and European countries now issue Vehicle Type Approval (VTA) certificates for car importers in Vietnam.
The Việt Nam-Korea Free Trade Agreement (VKFTA), which took effect on December 20, 2015, has played an important role in attracting investments from the South Korea to Việt Nam and helping the Southeast Asian nation integrate deeper into the regional economy.
Việt Nam’s fruit and vegetable exports reached US$1.32 billion in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 30 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The finance ministers and central bank governors of Asean and three East Asian partner countries have vowed to push back against protectionist measures that they warned could derail world economic recovery.
Vietnam greatly values its strategic partnership with Japan and considers Japan a top important and long-term partner, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a reception for Fumio Kishida, Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan, in Hanoi on May 4
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