The culture ministers of South Korea and Japan are set to hold a bilateral meeting Thursday to discuss cooperation on the cultural front amid escalating trade and diplomatic rows between their countries.

While the damage is largely already done for cells, modules and inverters, the increased tariffs on U.S. module components and 15% tariffs on lithium-ion batteries are not good news for either sector.

The National Single Window (NSW) mechanism, ASEAN Single Window (ASW) has been implemented relatively widely in Vietnam.

Germany wants the EU to reach a trade agreement with the US as quickly as possible, German chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters on Monday (26 August). 

Trade minister Hiroshige Seko said Tuesday Japan will go through with plans to revoke South Korea's status as a trusted trade partner, a move certain to deepen the rift between the feuding neighbors.

 With its series of recent free trade agreements, Việt Nam is becoming very attractive to foreign businesses, especially in the textile and garment sector.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Ho Chi Minh City Branch recently collaborated with the Polish National Chamber of Commerce to hold the ‘Vietnam-Poland Trade Exchange’.

Ten Indian enterprises operating in the fields of renewable energy, waste treatment, technology, aviation and banking participated in the “Vietnam-India Trade Exchange” recently held by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry -  Ho Chi Minh City Branch (VCCI-HCM).

The Vietnam Trade Office in Australia is working to help Vietnamese longan exporters to obtain an import licence from the Australian Government as soon as possible.

The US and China won’t be the only ones affected in the trade war raging between the two countries. As companies scramble to find ways around the ever-increasing tariffs that the world’s two largest economies impose on each other’s goods, other countries are being drawn into a conflict that might have no winners.