Home-decor, furniture has great potential on international markets (30/08/2023)
Further opportunities will be unlocked for Vietnamese home and kitchen decor and its furniture industry by tapping into the strong foundation of traditional long-standing craft villages, natural material resources and manufacturing capacity.

Vietnamese firms look to Thailand amid export challenges (30/08/2023)
Many Vietnamese companies are looking to the Thai market to export their products this year as demand declines in the U.S. and EU.

Coffee exports likely to bring in US$6 billion on price hike (29/08/2023)
Vietnamese coffee exports have witnessed positive signs thanks to constant soaring prices in recent times, according to the Mercantile Exchange of Vietnam (MXV).

Vietnamese exporters shift toward e-commerce (29/08/2023)
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift towards a digital economy and changing consumer shopping trends have contributed to boosting exports and goods consumption, helping the Vietnamese products reach distant markets.

Vietnam plan to sell clean electricity to Singapore (29/08/2023)
The energy sector is a new important pillar of cooperation added to the Vietnam-Singapore Framework Cooperation Agreement.

Vietnam’s tuna export orders to increase: VASEP (29/08/2023)
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) forecast tuna export orders will increase sharply in the last months of the year due to decreasing inventories in major export markets and the recently signed Vietnam-Israel Free Trade Agreement.

Plunge in Vietnam’s exports has bottomed out: VinaCapital (28/08/2023)
This year, Vietnam has suffered its longest streak of falling exports in more than a decade. However, there are concrete signs that Vietnam’s exports are set to recover in the fourth quarter driven by a bottoming out of the US inventory cycle and by an acceleration in multinational firms’ movement of manufacturing to Vietnam, according to VinaCapital’s Chief Economist Michael Kokalari.

Price of Vietnamese rice sets record, far above Thai rice (28/08/2023)
Vietnam’s 25 percent broken rice price increased over the last month, climbing to a record high after India imposed a rice export ban, leaving Thai and Pakistani rice prices far behind.

Vietnamese imports and exports with Asia hit nearly US$242 billion (28/08/2023)
Vietnam’s import and export turnover to the Asian market during the opening seven months of the year reached US$241.84 billion, accounting for the largest proportion at 65% of the total import and export value of Vietnamese goods to the world and a drop of 13.5% on-year, according to the General Department of Customs.

Vietnam’s export fruits receive warnings due to surveillance restrictions (28/08/2023)
Insufficient management on planting area codes and packaging agents has led to consistent warnings being issued to Vietnamese fruits by exporting countries.

Vietnam’s wooden product exports recover gradually (28/08/2023)
Vietnam’s wood and wooden product exports have seen signs of gradual recovery, according to the Hanoi-based DSC Securities Joint Stock Company (DSC).

Thailand attracts Vietnamese delegations for MICE events (25/08/2023)
Up to 35,000 Vietnamese have headed to Thailand for MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) events since the beginning of this year, accounting for 10% of the total Asian MICE visitors arriving in the neighbouring country.

Workshop promotes Vietnam-Russia trade through Vladivostok port (25/08/2023)
The Consulate General of Vietnam in Vladivostok and the Vietnam Trade Office’s branch in the Far East on August 21 held a workshop to promote Vietnam-Russia foreign trade through Vladivostok port.

Foreign retail distributors choose Vietnam as strategic location: official (25/08/2023)
Many foreign retail distributors, promoting strategies to diversify their supply chains and ensure a sustainable and resilient supply, have chosen Vietnam as a strategic location in the global supply chain, according to Ta Hoang Linh, Director of the European-American Market Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Decree stipulates examination, certification of imported cars’ technical safety (24/08/2023)
The Government has issued a decree regulating the examination and certification of technical safety and environmental protection for automobiles and parts imported under some international agreements to which Vietnam is a party.

UK expects Vietnam to ratify its CPTPP accession (24/08/2023)
The UK expects Vietnam to swiftly ratify the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) agreement.

Interfoam Expo Vietnam 2023 opens in HCM City (24/08/2023)
The Interfoam Expo Vietnam 2023, the first of its kind, opened in the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City on August 23.

Vietnam and Australia work towards a comprehensive strategic partnership goal (23/08/2023)
Both Vietnam and Australia have made great strides in realizing their strategic partnership goal towards the comprehensive strategic partnership in the near future.

Weight still placed on imported LNG (23/08/2023)
Vietnam’s growing dependence on imported liquefied natural gas could cause a hike in power production costs.

Pork trading floor to open in HCMC (23/08/2023)
Floor to help ensure trading transparency and food quality.