The delegation is tasked with assisting the Prime Minister in directing ministries, sectors and localities in the negotiation, signing, coordination of ratification and approval, as well as implementation of international treaties and agreements on economic and trade matters involving the Vietnamese State and Government.
Over the first 10 months of 2025, Vietnam’s macroeconomy remained stable, inflation was kept under control and major economic balances were ensured. The country’s total import–export turnover reached 762.4 billion USD, up 17.4% year on year. Exports stood at 391.0 billion USD, rising 16.2%, while imports hit 371.4 billion USD, up 18.6%, resulting in a trade surplus of 19.6 billion USD.
Negotiations on the Indonesia-EU Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IEU-CEPA) are nearly 90% complete, with the deal expected to be finalised this month, according to Indonesia’s Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan.
A recent article posted on portfolio-adviser.com, a news website based in the UK, has pointed out the frequent hope that Vietnam will be upgraded from its frontier-market status to the emerging market status.
Although the aquaculture industry have been facing many challenges, it continues to receive support from the Government, Director in charge of communications of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) Le Hang told Lao dong newspaper.
Businesses need to improve their self-reliance and enhance the connectivity in the private economic sector in the production chain and increase the rate of localisation, thus raising their competitiveness to overcome challenges in 2023, heard a forum in Hanoi on November 17.
A series of large consignments of many industries have been exported to other countries before and during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival signal hope for Vietnam’s export.
Singapore and Japan have re-affirmed their sound bilateral relations amid current challenges, and hoped to enhance collaboration in digitalisation, innovation and the green economy, as well as infrastructure cooperation in third countries.
Indonesia will give priority to the early ratification of a number of bilateral trade agreements, particularly a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to the country's Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi.
A webinar on trade between ASEAN and Argentina was held on October 11, aiming to accelerate the implementation of trade agreements inked between the two sides.
Vietnam-US relations have reaped various important achievements since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties 25 years ago, across all fields of politics, diplomacy, trade, investment, science-technology, security-national defence, education-training, culture and people-to-people exchange.
A joint statement on a cooperation initiative to address COVID-19 impacts on workers and businesses of the textile-garment and leather- footwear-handbag industries in Vietnam was signed in Hanoi on June 22.
Vietnam should fulfill its commitments to legal and institutional reform in accordance with international standards, thus making labour relations in businesses healthy.
Exports of the southern province of Binh Duong hit nearly 10.4 billion USD in the first five months of 2019, a year-on-year rise of 12.2 percent, said Director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade Nguyen Van Danh.
Vietnam has a lot of advantages to join regional trade agreements (RTAs) and free trade agreements (FTAs), said delegates to the APEC SOM Dialogue on RTAs/FTAs in Ho Chi Minh City on August 27.
Trade between Vietnam and the Czech Republic has been thriving, but still at a moderate level. Therefore, the two countries are striving to bringing bilateral trade one billion USD in the time to come
The Philippines and Qatar on April 16 signed trade agreements worth 200 million USD during the final stop of President Rodrigo Duterte’s tour of Gulf states.
