The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) complements the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative in facilitating trade and cooperation among different countries, a senior African Union (AU) official said on Thursday.

Việt Nam’s turnover from textiles and garment exports to Australia is predicted to reach a double-digit growth after the signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

A delegation of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade was in China on Monday to discuss trade-related issues following the tariffs announced by the United States on steel and aluminum imports.

The Japanese government is getting ready to host a meeting for a major regional trade deal.

Việt Nam has won a bid to supply 130,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines after the National Food Authority (NFA)’s auction on importing 250,000 tonnes.

The plenary of the leftist coalition Broad Front concluded on Sunday with a motion that postergates de decision over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Chile, defining to leave the decision on whether or not to support the agreement, delaying the debate to a future plenary whose date is not yet defined. The decision was voted after counting an erroneous sum of the votes in the first instance in which the motion to debate the issue in the plenary had won. However, the votes of the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) had been put on the wrong side.

Ukraine and Turkey have completed the tenth round of talks on conclusion of the Free Trade Agreement.

The EU’s top trade official on Friday said the bloc was open to pursuing a limited trade deal with the United States, once Washington granted a full exemption from punishing metals tariffs.

China hopes for substantive breakthroughs made in negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here on Monday.

Visit to Washington by Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser Liu He for next round of trade talks expected to see push to discuss ways of reducing its trade surplus.