A Vietnam-Korea FTA Support Center was inaugurated in HCMC last Friday (4thMarch 16) as one of two such facilities in Vietnam the Korean government had decided to form under the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA).

Viet Nam must improve the bidding legal framework to ensure consistence with commitments to the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement in government procurement, a conference heard.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai have officially announced the start of negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.

India and Australia are one amongst the few countries having commonality in their values interests and trade strategies. Compared with many other advanced economies, the near-term engagements between both the countries looks promising especially when both the countries are participating in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) process. Hence getting Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) signed by year end is top priorities for both the countries to federalise their economic relation which will generate more refined trade and investment flows.

HA NOI (VNS)— The agro, fishery and forestry export value, in the first eight months of 2015, fell by 4.8 per cent over the same period last year to US$19.31 billion. The figure includes $2.38 billion earned in August, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Thursday. During the first eight months of this year, the export value of farming products saw a year-on-year reduction of 7.7 per cent to $10.88 million, of which rice, rubber and coffee experienced the strongest falls in export value.

As trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries continue to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, China’s recent currency devaluation has sparked a debate over the inclusion of currency manipulation controls in global trade agreements. China is not currently part of the TPP, however, the agreement includes a mechanism for allowing other countries, including China, to join the agreement in the future.

A sweet deal for American sugar farmers is compounding delays in a proposed trade agreement affecting 40% of the world’s economy. The commodity has become a sticky subject in talks over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, potentially the biggest trade deal in history and a key goal of the Obama administration. TPP, as it's known, would link a dozen countries and, its proponents say, make it easier for US companies to sell goods around the world.

Washington, DC — As international trade negotiators continue attempting to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), farm, labor and consumer groups from throughout the Pacific Rim are demanding that they not interfere with nations’ sovereign right and responsibility to protect family farmers, processing workers and domestic food supplies – including North America’s dairy sector.

ASEAN and China have announced that they expect to complete their negotiations on an expanded free trade agreement (FTA) by November of this year. The announcement was made on August 23 during the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Ministers’ Meeting. During the recent gathering, the economic ministers of the ASEAN nations met with China’s Minister of Commerce, Gao Hucheng.

Negotiations for a multilateral Pacific Rim free trade agreement may be halted if the 12 participating countries cannot strike a broad deal before a general election in Canada in October, Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari said Friday. “After election campaigning starts in Canada, it will be difficult” to continue negotiations, Amari said in an interview.