VOV.VN - The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has confirmed that it has yet to consider adjusting the export growth target for 2025 after the Trump administration announced a 46% tariff on Vietnamese goods exported to the United States.

VOV.VN - Vietnam regrets the United States’ decision to impose reciprocal tariffs on Vietnamese exports to its market, Pham Thu Hang, spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has completed a National Assembly Standing Committee draft resolution on the re-organisation of administrative units to submit to the Ministry of Justice for verification.

VOV.VN - The National Assembly of Vietnam will amend and supplement certain provisions of the 2013 Constitution and pass a resolution on the merger of provincial-level administrative units before June 30, 2025.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has been tasked with collaborating with relevant agencies to ensure the completion of electronic identification accounts for organizations, enabling all enterprises to carry out administrative procedures electronically starting July 1, 2025.

The steering committee for restructuring, re-organising administrative units and developing a two-level local administration model gathered for the first time in Hanoi on March 13 under the chair of Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh, who is also head of the committee.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is expected to reduce the number of provincial-level administrative units by half and the number of grassroots-level administrative units (communes and wards) by 60-70% under a two-tier local government model, the Government Party Committee agreed at a meeting on March 11.

VOV.VN - The number of commune-level administrative units in Vietnam is expected to be cut from over 10,000 at present to 2,500 this year after the planned merger, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh.

VOV.VN - The results of a public opinion survey on the reorganisation of the state apparatus and administrative units show overwhelming support from citizens, officials, and Party members, and this presents a golden opportunity to accelerate national development, according to a Party Secretary.

VOV.VN - The government will continue streamlining its administrative apparatus and preparing for the restructuring of the provincial- and district-level administrative units, alongside ensuring macroeconomic stability and promoting growth, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh during the regular government meeting for February in Hanoi on March 5.