Government Resolution 105 dated September on supporting businesses, cooperatives and business households amid the Covid-19 pandemic has requested many agencies to perform to ensure smooth circulation of goods, and prevent supply chain disruption.

More than 85,000 enterprises suspended operations in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 24.2 per cent over the same period in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, local enterprises need to have measures on maintaining operation and developing a sustainable business.

Lang Son Province has piloted the digital border gate. This will reform the procedures, reduce customs clearance, enhance state management and supervision. The digital platform will create a multi-dimensional communication channel among state agencies and businesses in import and export activities.

Vietnam attracted US$ 14 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first eight months of this year, only 2% lower than the same period last year, showing foreign investors’ confidence in Vietnam’s economic scenario in mid-and long terms.

Under difficult conditions, shutchi catfish exports to the Mexican market grew impressively with three-digit numbers, becoming the leading export market of Vietnamese seafood enterprises in Latin America.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the preliminary results of the 17th period of review (POR17) for the period from August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020, regarding Vietnam’s tra and basa fish (pangasius) exported to the US.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is “crucial and timely” amid the joint efforts of China and ASEAN to overcome the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic while it would also open a new chapter for regional economic and trade ties, Chinese ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian said here Wednesday.

Sixteen of America’s biggest business lobby groups are pushing the Biden administration to secure a digital trade agreement in the Indo-Pacific with countries such as Australia, setting up this week’s AUSMIN talks and next week’s Quad Leaders Summit as the likely platform to announce any such deal.

Vietnam will impose a zero percent tax rate on 31 commodities imported from Cambodia such as live poultry, poultry meat and by-products, lemons and rice.

ASEAN economic ministers adopted revisions to several terms in the Operational Certification Procedures in the first Protocol amending the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement.