Meeting the EU's Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) remains a challenge for Vietnamese food exporters as the country seeks greater integration in the global food supply, said industry experts and policymakers.

The United Kingdom will commit itself more fully to the Indo-Pacific region, beyond its ongoing efforts to join a massive trade deal in the region, the country’s new foreign secretary said Thursday.

The outlook for the global economy has “darkened” and the world is at a point of “significant economic danger”, according to the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists Outlook survey.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Dung on September 26 chaired three meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Committee in Washington D.C (ACW).

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has expressed his delight at the positive development in economic relations between Vietnam and Germany.

It is forecast that higher-quality FDI will pour into Vietnam in the near future, mostly in clean energy, hi-tech agriculture and mechanical engineering.

The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea on Tuesday gave its formal consent to the Cambodia-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) through its ratification to make Cambodia’s second bilateral trade agreement officially valid and effective for enforcement in a short period of time, according to a senior official of the Ministry of Commerce (MoC).

Rice companies are benefiting from rising rice prices, especially the group of companies with a large export weight of rice.

The Vietnam - UK Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) has substantially assisted Vietnam’s coffee sector to expand its market share in the UK, according to the Foreign Trade Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Vietnam estimates a trade surplus of 6.52 billion USD in the first nine months of this year.