Despite its great potential for growth, poor transport infrastructure and high costs are holding back the logistics industry, insiders said at the Vietnam Logistics Transformation forum held in HCM City on October 19.
VOV.VN - The Hanoi International Gifts and Handicrafts Fair 2022 (Hanoi Gift Show 2022), officially kicked off on October 20 in Hanoi, with the event featuring the participation of hordes of local and foreign businesses showcasing their products across 460 pavilions.
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has received a petition for an anti-dumping investigation into clipboards imported from Vietnam, China and India, said the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Trade Remedies Authority.
As many as 30 big foreign suppliers, including Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix; Samsung; TikTok; and eBay made tax declaration via the portal http://Etaxvn.gdt.gov.vn and paid US$22.2 million worth of tax, according to a report recently submitted by the Ministry of Finance to the National Assembly.
Vietnam’s e-commerce market is predicted to record the growth of 28%, the highest rate among Southeast Asian nations, and reach US$40 billion by 2027.
Hanoi will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (iDEA), Amazon Global Selling Vietnam, and relevant units to support and train businesses in skills on cross-border e-commerce.
Since the portal for tax payment of cross border activities was launched on March 21 this year, 36 foreign service providers have registered, declared and paid taxes through it, heard a webinar held by the Government Portal on September 29.
Global growth investor Warburg Pincus with headquarters in New York, the US, has decided to invest in a cross-border e-commerce project in the southern province of Binh Duong.
VOV.VN - A delegation of the Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee led by deputy secretary Nguyen Hoang Thao made a working trip to India on September 24-25.
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on September 22 met representatives from the US Chamber of Commerce, the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU), the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) and US firms operating in many different areas in New York.