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Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan (center) delivers a speech at the National Working Meeting of Barantin in Jakarta on January 16, 2025. (Photo: Antara)

Indonesia focuses on technology to enhance quarantine systems

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan on January 16 called on the Indonesian Quarantine Agency (Barantin) to strengthen its human resources, upgrade laboratory facilities, and harness information technology to bolster the nation’s quarantine capabilities.

A farmer harvests sugar cane in a village in Kudus, Central Java, on July 12, 2023. (Photo: ANTARA)

Indonesia to stop importing sugar in 2025

The Indonesian government expressed optimism that the plan to stop importing sugar and several other commodities in 2025 will be implemented due to increased domestic production.

Vietnam's total import-export turnover reaches 745 billion USD as of December 14 (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam's import-export surges 15.3%

Vietnam's total import-export turnover reached 745 billion USD as of December 14, marking a robust 15.3% growth compared to the same period in 2023, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

State budget collection from import-export activities soar 14.5% (Photo: VNA)

State budget collection from import-export activities soar 14.5%

State budget collection from import and export activities surged 14.5% year-on-year to nearly 346.3 trillion VND (13.7 million USD) in the first 10 months of 2024, reaching 92.3% of the annual target, the General Department of Vietnam Customs reported on November 7.

Officers at the Online Customs Supervision Department under the Anti-smuggling Investigation Department, General Department of Vietnam Customs. (Photo: VNA)

Budget collection from exports-imports up over 13% in eight months

State budget collection from export-import activities reached 274.03 trillion VND (11.1 billion USD) in the first eight months of 2024, equivalent to 73.1% of the assigned estimate and up 13.1% year-on-year, the General Department of Vietnam Customs (GDVC) announced on September 10.

Luong Hoang Thai, Director of the Multilateral Trade Policy Department at the Ministry of Industry and Trade (Photo: VNA)

New supply chains pave solid ground for EVFTA’s success

The Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which took effect on August 1, 2020, has marked significant progress in bilateral trade, increasing Vietnam's exports to Europe from 35 billion EUR (nearly 39 billion USD) in 2019 to over 48 billion EUR in 2023.

Agricultural labourers working in a rice field in Suphan Buri province, Thailand (Photo: bangkokpost.com)

Thailand lifts 2024 rice export projection

Thailand expects to export 8.2 million tonnes of rice this year, up from a previous forecast of 7.5 million, helped by demand from major markets and a weakening THB, according to the country’s Commerce Ministry.

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Russia exports one more batch of pork to Vietnam

Up to 69.5 tonnes of frozen pork and by-products from Tomsk province of Russia have been exported to Vietnam, meeting the sanitary and veterinary regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the veterinary requirements of Vietnam.