The promotion of national standards and technical regulations has significantly contributed to improving the quality and competitiveness of products, goods and services, an official has said.


According to the Vietnam Trade Office in Canada, although the rate of using CPTPP preferential tariffs for Vietnamese exports has increased steadily over the past 5 years, there is still about USD 4 billion, or about 60% of products enjoying tax. CPTPP is equal to 0 but still cannot be taken advantage of.

The recent decision by the United States government to grant permission for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, both based in South Korea, to acquire advanced manufacturing equipment for their semiconductor plants in mainland China is anticipated to pose challenges for domestic memory chip manufacturers in China, such as Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC).

The wood industry of Việt Nam must focus on building brands based on the development of transparent and sustainable value chains.

Nikkei Asia recently wrote that a fourth boom of foreign investment in Việt Nam might be in the making, led by the capital influx from the US after US President Joe Biden’s visit to Việt Nam last month.

Canada still has a trade deficit in beef with Europe, but it is getting smaller. Trade data from Statistics Canada for the first seven months of 2023 shows that Canada exported $16.3 million worth of beef to the EU. That’s up from $12.2 million in the same period in 2022.

Britain and South Korea have agreed to extend a period of low or zero tariffs on bilateral trade by two years, ahead of talks to forge a new trade deal, the British government said on Monday, in a boost for the car industry.

A workshop discussing opportunities for Canadian industrial and technological businesses in the Vietnamese market has been held recently in British Columbia, Cambodia.

Officials in the United States have recently become increasingly concerned that investments by the country's venture capital firms in China's high-tech sectors, such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors and quantum computing, are helping the Chinese government develop emerging and critical technologies that could be used to undermine US national security.

South Korea has signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), marking its first such agreement with a Middle Eastern country and its 24th FTA overall.