PM Narendra Modi, while addressing 10 Asean leaders, on Sunday welcomed the decision to have a relook at the free-trade agreement between India and the 10-member grouping. Last month, India and Asean initiated a review of the free-trade agreement.

Vietnam, one of the world’s top rice exporters, is thinking of cutting rice output and switching to other crops.

Vietnam-Israel trade reached over US$790 million in the first nine months of 2019, with Vietnam’s export revenue of about US$410 million, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Israel.

The escalating US-China trade war has made Vietnam’s trade gap with China widen to 29.5 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2019, up 47.9 percent from the same time last year, according to insiders.

Within the framework of the 35th ASEAN Summit and related Summits held in Nonthaburi province, Thailand on November 2-4, leaders of ASEAN member countries and its partners agreed to conclude the negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in 2020.

A conference was held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 7 to discuss the effective and sustainable development of Vietnam’s rubber industry towards 2030.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), under the United States Department of Agriculture, has officially recognized Vietnam’s pangasius food safety control system after more than three years of negotiations, reports Vietnam News.

United States President Donald Trump will not impose tariffs on European Union automotive goods next week as threatened, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung.

The idea of a Philippine-US FTA has been mooted since the termination of the Philippines’ preferential trade status in the US as part of the transitional arrangements from colonial rule to full independence.

Ukraine and Turkey will hold the next round of talks on signing the free trade agreement between the two countries in January 2020.