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Expanding into international markets to boost rice exports was the focus of a workshop held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade on February 22 in HCM City.

A slowdown in China’s economic growth is having a strong impact on Singapore as the country’s export turnover to China, in January, recorded the sharpest decrease in the past 7 years.

The Mekong Delta region targets to earn 14.34 billion USD from export in 2016, a year-on-year increase of 1.14 billion USD.

Tra fish exports to the UK hit 46 million USD last year, an increase of 13.9 percent against 2014, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to cut exports of natural rubber by 615,000 tonnes for six months from March to reduce supplies and increase prices that are trading near six-year lows.

Vietnam's cashew exports in January jumped 15.6 percent year-on-year to 183 million USD, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) forecasts that shrimp exports will reach 3.3 billion USD in 2016, up 12 percent from 2015.

Vietnam’s 90 million consumers and increasing number of middle-class households nake it a potential market for agricultural, industrial and service products from the European Union (EU).

Vietnam exported nearly 315,000 tonnes of rice as of January 28, an increase of 46 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

With 6.9 billion USD in revenue from wood and wood-based product exports in 2015, Vietnam has become the fourth biggest wood exporter in the world, following China, German and Italy.

The EU decided to suspend tariffs on Malaysia’s export products of automotive parts, clothing and apparel, furniture and plastic parts effective from January 1.

Vietnam is considered the country to reap the most benefit in apparel, footwear, agro-forestry and seafood exports from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.

The export turnover of Vietnam is estimated to touch 13.8 billion USD in January, slightly increasing by 0.5 percent against the previous month, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Agro-forestry-fishery exports yielded 2.33 billion USD in January, an annual decrease of 3.1 percent.

Vietnam’s shrimp exports to the US in 2016 will rise thanks to positive results from the ninth administrative review (POR9) for anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese frozen shrimp and TPP signing.

The northern province of Vinh Phuc plans to expand cultivation of its strongest exports in farm produce, such as red-flesh dragon fruit, Hong aromatic bananas and chayote (a type of gourd.)

As the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong was aiming to expand the export of Da Lat flowers from the current 10 percent of output to 30 percent by 2020, greater efforts were needed.

Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) slid 7.2 percent in December last year, from a year earlier, as shipment of non-electronics products dropped 10.3 percent.

Exporters from the Republic of Korea (RoK) have been permitted to ship fresh strawberries to the Vietnamese market.

The HCM City Customs Department collected taxes worth nearly 94 trillion VND (4.25 billion USD) last year, a 5 percent year-on-year increase.