(Reuters) - India and the United States settled a dispute on Thursday that had paralysed the World Trade Organization and risked derailing a $1 trillion package of reforms of global customs procedures. The deal, which needs to be backed by all 160 WTO members, has resurrected hopes that the trade body can now push through those reforms, opening the way up for further negotiations.

HA NOI (VNS)  — Viet Nam's tra fish exporters should expand their market to Canada to avoid a state of dependence on existing key export markets, experts said. According to Viet Nam's General Department of Customs, the value of the country's tra fish exports to Canada in the first nine months of 2014 reached US$28.9 million, a 4.5-per cent year-on-year increase. The price of frozen Vietnamese tra fish exports to Canada likewise surged compared with that of last year, the customs department said.

As had been expected, the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting in Beijing agreed on November 11 to establish a roadmap towards an eventual realization of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP). The vision for the FTAAP was first set out in 2004, but it was in 2010 in Japan and again in Bali in 2013 that APEC Leaders proposed the FTAAP as a comprehensive, high quality agreement that would build on existing regional trade agreement (RTA) and bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) talks in the Asia Pacific.

HCMC – The Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA) has warned India may launch a probe into the possible dumping of Vietnamese rubber on its market. VCA cited Indian news agency IANS as saying in September of this year that producers in India proposed their government impose an anti-dumping duty or increasing import tax on rubber.

Leading international trade experts from the EU and Vietnam staged a seminar on November 11 in the southern province Binh Duong discussing fair trade practices and protection measures. The seminar, co-organised by the European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project (EU-MUTRAP) and the Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA), addressed anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and dispute resolution, among others issues.

Nov 12 (Reuters) - Canadian Solar Inc's quarterly profit rose more than four-fold as its shift in focus from panel sales to the more profitable business of building solar power plants pays off. The company's share rose 8 percent in light trading before the bell. The company said it sold five utility-scale solar power projects in Canada in the third quarter ended Sept. 30.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is likely to earn 1.4 billion U.S. dollars from fruit and vegetable exports in 2014, the ever record high made so far, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). In the first 10 months, fruit and vegetable exports brought over 1.2 billion dollars to the country, surpassing the yearly target set by the ministry, local Saigon Times daily reported Wednesday, quoting general secretary of the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetables Association (Vinafruit) Nguyen Van Ky as saying.

(Reuters) - The United States and China announced a largely symbolic plan on Wednesday to implement new limits on carbon emissions, the highlight of a summit between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping at which both leaders played down suggestions of differences and rivalry. U.S. officials said the commitments by the world's two biggest carbon polluters came after months of backroom negotiations and would set the stage for a global climate control pact, but experts said the limits did not break significant new ground.

BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- China-ASEAN Business Council held a promotion meeting in Tianjin lately to introduce business chances from the upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) and construction of the Maritime Silk Road. Executive president of the council Xu Ningning said,the Tianjin Commission of Commerce has set this year as the year of economic and trade cooperation with ASEAN, and launched bilateral economic and trade exchanges.

HCM CITY (VNS) — Vietnamese enterprises, especially small- and medium-sized companies, have been repeatedly warned to prepare for both the challenges and opportunities when the ASEAN Economic Community is established next year. During a recent forum organised yesterday at HCM City University of Technology, local and foreign experts have expressed concern about the preparation of Vietnamese enterprises.