The EU and 15 other members of the WTO today decided on an arrangement that will allow them to bring appeals and solve trade disputes among them despite the current paralysis of the WTO Appellate Body. Given its strong and unwavering support for a rules-based trading system, the EU has been a leading force in the process to establish this contingency measure in the WTO.

Globalisation was under threat even before the pandemic. US President Donald Trump set the tone by declaring himself ‘tariff man’, imposing bogus ‘national security’ tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from allies while launching a trade war with China and eviscerating the WTO Appellate Body. But Trump was not alone in attacking the global trading system.

The spread of the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has affected foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Vietnam. However, it could also provide Vietnam with a great opportunity to receive FDI inflows from investors seeking to shift their production from China to the Southeast Asian region in order to limit risks, with Vietnam featuring prominently on their radar.

Seafood exporters in Vietnam are seeing their orders and export value plunge due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Customs officials in Nanning, Guangxi province, recently detected three distinct pathogens for the first time while testing samples of watermelons and dragon fruit imported from Vietnam.

The COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a human tragedy. Measures introduced to deal with the pandemic could save lives but are having wide-ranging economic effects and inducing economic contagion. There are already studies estimating the economic impact of the virus. But greater focus is needed on the transmission mechanisms of the economic contagion and in critiquing how assessments of the economic impacts are made, concentrating on the ASEAN region.

Shifting from direct to indirect exports through distribution and e-commerce systems has become an urgent requirement in the context of the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).

Việt Nam has taken full advantage of the CPTPP to gain strong growth in exports to Canada and Mexico, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex) on March 25 informed that Vietnam’s garment and textile industry might suffer a loss of up to VND11 trillion if export orders continue to be halted, delayed and canceled.

Seafood exporters are seeing up to half their orders canceled or delayed as demand shrinks amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.