Britain and Australia are seeking to strike a trade agreement by mid-June, the British envoy said on Thursday, following another round of bilateral talks.

The US has introduced new tariffs worth $2bn on European goods, including products from the UK, in response to an ongoing dispute over taxes for tech giants.

The Eurasian Economic Union may implement a preferential trade regime not only with individual member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations but also with the ASEAN as a whole, Member of the Board (Minister) for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Sergei Glazyev said at the EAEU– ASEAN business dialogue which took place on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Thailand coordinated with the Export Support Centre, the Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Central Group of Thailand to organise an online business connection programme between the Central Group and Vietnamese enterprises in the field of food and building materials and furniture, on June 2.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Hồng Diên held a working session with Ambassador of South Korea to Việt Nam Park Noh-wan in Hà Nội on Wednesday to discuss measures to further facilitate cooperation between the two countries in trade, industry, and energy.

Australia has said it is approaching World Trade Organisation (WTO) to form a dispute settlement panel for the anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on its barley by China.

India and the U.K. are intensifying talks to remove non-tariff barriers and foster greater market access as they work to stitch together the South Asian nation’s first major free trade pact in a decade.

Norway and Britain have reached an agreement on their post-Brexit trade relations, Norwegian state broadcaster NRK and news agency NTB said on Thursday, citing anonymous sources.

Ongoing negotiations between the European Union and Indonesia on a trade and investment deal should not be hampered by differences over palm oil, the EU's top diplomat said, even as the bloc aims to phase out use of palm oil in fuel.

There is an aspect of the US-China technology race that is more consequential than simply mining more data or developing better technology. It is writing the rules of the digital road. In this competition over standards, whichever nation first strikes a trilateral deal with technology leaders Japan and South Korea will secure a strategic chokepoint in the digital architecture of Asia.