While Trump’s acolytes would insist that the trade war is good, necessary and will bear fruit in the long term, the hard evidence of the past two years is less persuasive

By now, it can be concluded that albeit unable to reach the set goal, Vietnam’s export this year has yielded encouraging results.

Has the bilateral environment ever been stronger for a free-trade agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and the U.S.? At least half of the U.S. Senate believes the time is right, sending a joint letter to U.S. Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer asking him to start negotiations.

Britain and the EU are closer to agreement on reciprocal social security rights for their citizens after Brexit, two diplomatic sources said, with one describing talks last week on an elusive trade deal as “one of the most positive so far”.

Vietnam raked in 30.05 billion USD from exporting agro-forestry-aquatic products in the first three quarters of 2020 and the value is hoped to hit over 40 billion USD for the whole year, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.

After nearly two months of the EVFTA, seafood exports strongly increased but there were some problems for seafood enterprises.

According to the Department of Import and Export under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, fruit and vegetable exports in the past nine months touched about US$2.5 billion, a decrease of 11 percent over the same period last year.

Experts said that trade remedies tended to increase, at the seminar on the impacts of safeguard measures in 2019 and the policy trend on trade remedies after the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) held by the Ho Chi Minh City Centre of International Integration Support on October 2.

Vietnam ran a surplus of 7.25 billion USD in agro-forestry-fishery trade in January-September, 15.7 percent higher than the same period last year, the latest updates of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development showed.

WTO members reviewed on 29 September four regional trade agreements concluded between developing countries at a dedicated session of the Committee on Trade and Development.