Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Long spoke of cooperation opportunities between Birmingham and Vietnam, especially its big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in the fields of education-training, health care and culture, during his recent meeting with the city’s Lord Mayor Maureen Cornish.

China has both the willingness and capability to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, and has been studying the terms, costs and benefits of joining the pact, said Wang Shouwen, vice-minister of commerce.

Australia is Vietnam's second largest shrimp import market in the CPTPP market after Japan, accounting for 27% of Vietnam's total shrimp export value to this market.

China is actively advancing its accession to the DEPA and the CPTPP, Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen said on Saturday at the second Pearl River International Trade Forum, during the 133rd China Import and Export Fair, commonly known as the Canton Fair.

Despite enduring a decline in key seafood exports during the first quarter of the year, there are positive signs ahead for Vietnamese aquatic products in the UK, Japan, Germany, and Israel, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

From Brexit to the CPTPP, the road has been long for the United Kingdom, but the final outcome should see the country’s trade ties with Vietnam become stronger than before.

The British Ambassador to Việt Nam Iain Frew spoke to Việt Nam News about the UK's trade opening and its impact on Việt Nam-UK trade relation.

The United Kingdom’s efforts to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership are being seconded by Vietnam, but various issues persist involving other members.

CPTPP deal is not yet final but an agreement in principle is due in the coming days, three people familiar with the negotiations tell POLITICO.

The UK is poised to join this major Asia-Pacific trading bloc in time for New Zealand’s host of key trade ministers in Auckland over the Matariki weekend in July.