Enhancing governance capacity, ensuring supply chain transparency and complying with rules of origin are key components to allow enterprises to cope with trade defence measures from international markets.

The Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade will convene the second annual Trade Defence Forum in Ho Chi Minh City on September 25, following a successful inaugural event last year.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese exports are increasingly facing technical barriers as the European Union has recently adopted stricter standards, requiring businesses to equip themselves with thorough knowledge of new regulations and proactively enhance their production capacity.

In response to mounting trade‑defence pressure on Vietnamese exports ranging across a broadening spectrum of goods and emerging markets, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is ramping up early warning alerts to notify exporters ahead of potential foreign anti-dumping investigations.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) committees on trade defence held a series of meetings from April 28 to May 1, the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations, the WTO, and other international organisations in Geneva, Switzerland, announced on May 6.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has been tasked with building and operating an early warning system for trade defence to detect potential lawsuits from foreign countries initiating trade remedy investigations against Vietnamese exports.

Vietnamese exporters have proactively diversified their markets from the start of the year to mitigate risks as they may soon face significant tax hikes globally, said industry insiders and experts.

Vietnam’s export products face a significant increase in the number of trade defence investigation cases this year on rising protectionism worldwide, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT).

Vietnam has faced 268 trade defence investigations, with more than half coming from Asia, Africa and Oceania, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Vietnamese enterprises need to make efforts to innovate, proactively improve competitiveness, and participate in new supply chains to boost exports to Asia, said trade official.