An official of the Foreign Trade Agency laid stress on the foundational role of rules of origin in international trade, highlighting the importance of capacity building for enforcement officers in the context of deep international integration.
The ratification of the agreement not only reaffirms its steadfast commitment to a rules-based, fair, and sustainable international trading order but also brings tangible domestic benefits.
The Vietnamese Government has officially approved its participation in the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) – a flexible mechanism designed to maintain and promote the WTO’s dispute settlement function amidst complex negotiations over dispute settlement reform.
The WTO panel had assessed that Indonesia’s export duty and export levy on palm oil could not be categorised as a subsidy, and that the EU Commission failed to prove a threat of material harm to European biodiesel producers caused by Indonesian biodiesel imports.
Trinh Thu Huong, Director of the WTO Chairs Programme at the Foreign Trade University, said promoting gender equality in trade has been a key priority throughout the programme’s implementation. Besides incorporating gender issues into academic content, the programme also seeks to create inclusive opportunities for women in research, education, and trade policy-making.
Vietnam’s NetZero Pallet, which specialises in manufacturing and exporting storage and transport pallets from recycled agricultural waste, was one of two top winners of the 2025 Small Business Champions Competition, held by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
On the sidelines of the SPS Committee meeting, the Vietnamese delegation held bilateral discussions with WTO member delegations.
Hien explained that rules of origin are a set of criteria used to determine the country where a product is manufactured (i.e. country of origin). These rules are especially important for goods produced using inputs from multiple countries, and require clearly defined methods and standards to identify the origin accurately.
Abdullah asserted that economic policies should support universal economic interests rather than serve as tools for superpowers to gain unilateral advantages - a practice he believes could lead to global economic depression.
The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
Indonesia has welcomed a recent ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which found that the European Union (EU) discriminated against Indonesian palm oil-based biofuel, giving it unfair and detrimental treatment, in setting biofuel regulations, according to Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto.
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on December 13 held a closing ceremony for its 2024 class of young professionals.
Vietnam spent 10.48 billion USD to import nearly 15 million tonnes of steel in the first 10 months of this year, an additional concern of the domestic industry which is struggling to compete with the flood of cheap steel.
Minister-Counsellor Le Dinh Ba, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN in Geneva, attended the 6th Trade Policy Review (TPR) session of Nigeria at the headquarters of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Vietnam and the Netherlands, together with the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), co-organised a seminar in Geneva, Switzerland on October 8 to discuss Vietnam’s trade integration, development, and environmental management.
Costa Rican Minister of Foreign Trade Manuel Tovar, empowered by the Costa Rican President, on August 5 announced and handed over a diplomatic note to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) affirming its recognition of Vietnam as a market economy.
Vietnam has made suitable efforts to clamp down on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing while striving to negotiate to have the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” removed, a counsel at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law told the Vietnam News Agency.
The rate of national standards and technical regulations on agro-forestry-aquatic food safety equivalent to international standards is expected to reach 100% by 2030, according to a freshly-approved project.
Over 17 years of being a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Vietnam has seen hallmark economic growth thanks to economic integration into the world, providing strong momentum for further development.
