The Vietnam Trade Office in the Philippines has forecast that the Philippines' rice import demand this year will remain high and Vietnam will continue to be its leading rice exporter.

In March 2025, US President Donald Trump imposed aggressive tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, triggering global economic disruption and affecting countries such as Japan, China, South Korea and India. Canada and other large economies have responded by announcing tariffs on US products. These measures threaten industries reliant on steel and aluminium, including automotive and military sectors, and could lead to significant job losses. Tariffs risk escalating trade wars, harming global welfare and disrupting the world’s post-pandemic economic recovery. Countries should instead turn to stable trade agreements to shore up economic resilience.

The DOC's alleged dumping margin against Vietnam is 52.07%, an increase of 11.22% compared to the plaintiff's proposal (40.85%) and much lower than the alleged level against China, ranging from 74.98% to 83.64%...

Vietnam and Ethiopia will soon initiate negotiations on key agreements to establish a favourable legal framework for economic cooperation.

Key areas of cooperation include logistics, distribution, textile investment, and multilateral trade frameworks such as ASEAN–RoK, RCEP, APEC and IPEF.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to exempt electronic devices — like smartphones, iPhones and laptops — from tariffs was only a temporary reprieve but those products will face separate levies, adding more confusion to an already chaotic rollout of tariffs on Chinese goods.

US President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep tariffs on smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech firms like Apple that rely on imported products.

US President Donald Trump said he could offer some exemptions to his 10% tariff on most US trading partners — even as he insisted that it is “pretty close” to a floor for nations seeking to negotiate trade deals.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday that US tariffs have the potential to disrupt the global economic order, issuing his strongest warning to date about the damage President Donald Trump's decisions could inflict on the world economy.

VNA reporter interviewed VCCI Chairman Pham Tan Cong about the risk of global trade war; as well as recommendations to adapt to this challenging context.