A conference has been held in Edmonton city in Canada’s Alberta province to discuss the role of Vietnam as a gateway for Canada to enter Southeast Asia during the implementation of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The 8th meeting of the Vietnam-Italy Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation was held in Rome from October 17-18.

A Vietnam-Belgium business meeting was held in Brussels on October 18, aiming to create a chance for direct discussions and connections among enterprises of the two countries.

Việt Nam-UK trade achieved positive results over the past nine months of this year amid export activities from Việt Nam to Europe this year facing many challenges, due to decelerating regional economic growth and high inflation. That made people and businesses to limit their spending.

ASEAN and Canada have edged closer to concluding a free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada officially achieving the strategic partnership status during the ASEAN Summit in late September. Canada has been a dialogue partner to ASEAN since 1977.

After a year of negotiations and an additional four months of legal scrubbing the first agreement negotiated as part of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) has been released. The IPEF Agreement Relating to Supply Chain Resilience gives us the first concrete insights into what IPEF could add to the region’s economic architecture.

China has just implemented a new regulation of checking imported textile and garment products quality, informed the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry of Trade on October 16.

If enterprises only receive pure outsourcing orders, in the short and medium term it will help them stabilize their orders, but in the long term, those values will increasingly drain away from them. That also means that market opportunities from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are increasingly decreasing.

Currently, lobster consumption is mainly exported to the Chinese market through unofficial channels which requires Vietnamese businesses to look for official export channels.

The Biden administration's latest round of export curbs on China is part of a two-pronged strategy aiming to halt Beijing's technological advances over fears it could use the innovations to bolster its military, while at the same time spending billions to lure more chip manufacturing back to the U.S.