Amid enforcement of landmark free trade agreements, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has made significant legislative changes.

It is now official: Africa’s free trade agreement has drawn enough signatures to go into operation.

The Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNForest) launched an action plan on April 3 for communications to implement the Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (VPA/FLEGT) between Vietnam and the European Union (EU).

U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Chinese Vice Premier Liu He at the White House on Thursday as speculation grows that negotiations over a trade deal between the world’s biggest economies is entering the final stages.

A free trade agreement between India and the US is a key to resolving their trade disputes as it will cover biggest irritants in ties including tariffs and mobility of Indian professionals, a top American business advocacy group has said.

If UK Prime Minister Theresa May were looking for signs of optimismover Brexit -- and she would be forgiven for such a desperate search -- then a few are starting to emerge.

The US-China trade war is the biggest risk to the Asian economy, with the prolonged conflict threatening to “undermine investment and growth in developing Asia”, the Asian Development Bank has said.

Rising production costs are harming the competitiveness of Vietnamese seafood products, according to experts. These include the prices of feed, material input, electricity and labour.

Vietnamese products have great opportunities to reach foreign markets thanks to global online distributors such as Amazon and Alibaba.

If Vietnam is not determined to reform, it will be a lower average income country forever, writes Vu Tien Loc, chair of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce & Industry (VCCI) for ‘For a Powerful Vietnam’, a forum initiated by VietNamNet.