The Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers and fisheries companies have pledged to with authorities and fishermen to meet EU demands on fighting IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing.

South Korea and Russia have agreed to work together to conclude a free trade agreement in the service and investment sectors next year, raise a joint fund of US$1 billion for investment in Russia’s original technologies, and combine the technologies with South Korea’s commercial technologies for material, component and equipment competitiveness enhancement.

Ricardo Marletti Debatin da Silveira and Rogério Gaspari Coelho of Machado Associados explain how the Mercosur states and the EU will benefit from their important new trade agreement.

The South Korean government filed complaint against the Indian government which has been levying second most import barriers on Korea.

THE trade conflict between the United States and China may be benefiting the Philippines in the short run, but the country, as with fellow Southeast Asian countries, is bound to take a stronger hit from an overall slowdown in export demand if the tariff war is protracted.

China will support purchases of more US farm products, including soybeans and pork, by offering exemptions from additional tariffs as a goodwill gesture ahead of high-level trade talks set to take place in Washington at the start of next month, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

Vietnamese agriculture officials made fruits a key export product as it can bring eight or nine times more in value compare to rice production.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted that Vietnam’s economy will maintain healthy growth in 2019 and 2020 at 6.8 percent and 6.7 percent, respectively, after growing robustly at 7.1 percent last year.

Business leaders from South Korea and Japan on Wednesday voiced concerns over an escalating trade feud between the two neighbors, calling for their governments to resolve the issue through dialogue.

With President Trump and Japanese PM Abe set to meet at the U.N. Wednesday, a trade deal between the two nations is falling into place.