The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) comes into force today - just eight weeks before the UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) reported that Vietnam exported 6.1 million tons of rice in 2018, a slight increase of 270,000 tons, or 4.6 percent higher than 2017.

Investment and trade ties between Vietnam and the Czech Republic have shown encouraging signs along with the thriving political and diplomatic relations.

Vietnam’s leather and footwear sector is set to continue to thrive in 2019, according to the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (LEFASO).

The United States and China said their trade war negotiations resulted in major progress as the clock ticks on a March deadline to avert a massive escalation of tariffs that could bruise the global economy.

Trung An Hi-tech Farming JSC in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has been exporting rice under foreign brand names for many years though it is itself one of the biggest rice exporters in Việt Nam.

Japan is set to lift 86 percent of the tariff lines for Vietnamese products in line with its commitments in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Circular No 03/2019/TT-BCT stipulating the certificates of origin (C/O) rules in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The Prime Minister approved the ‘Scheme of deploying, applying and managing the traceability system’ with the goal to build and operate a portal on national product and goods traceability by 2020.

Tensions between the United States and China are about to get more complicated, with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) poised to begin an investigation into US President Donald Trump's tariffs on US$250 billion (S$338 billion) of Chinese goods.