Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to strengthen the steering committee for Vietnam's industrialisation strategy within the framework of Vietnam-Japan cooperation.

Vietnam will continue to face difficulties in exporting cassava this year, especially to China, the largest export market of local cassava, according to the Vietnam Cassava Association.

China has pledged to end market-distorting subsidies for its domestic industries but offered no details on how it would achieve that goal, according to three people familiar with the U.S.-China trade talks in Beijing this week.

This year, we will celebrate the 30th anniversary of ASEAN-Korea relations as well as the 70th anniversary of the Philippines-Korea relations.

After two rounds of negotiations, Jerusalem close to agreement with Eurasian Economic Union; separately, Tehran also set to sign deal ‘in the near future’

South Korea’s finance minister said Thursday that Seoul will push for talks with Britain on forging a bilateral free trade deal, citing London’s imminent departure from the European Union.

The ASEAN – Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is now in its final stage and is hoped to take effect within 2019, according to Xinhua news agency. Xinhua quoted Law Kin-wai, director general of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Jakarta, Indonesia, as saying on February 12 that member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are proceeding with necessary domestic ratifications and procedures that would pave the way for the enforcement of the FTA.

Thai media on February 9 quoted Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak as saying that he had ordered the Commerce Ministry to submit a request to become a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will make intensive efforts to boost exports of animal products this year.

Vietnam is targeting 2.4 billion USD from tra fish exports in this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.