Vietnam’s exporters should pay more attention to expanding sales on e-commerce platforms besides trade promotion activities in particular in order to expand export of ago-forestry-aquaculture products to China and its Guangdong province, according to the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade).

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien recently held phone talks with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to discuss bilateral economic and trade issues.

The Enterprise Development Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment in coordination with Amazon Global Selling Vietnam on September 9 held a webinar to launch a programme for firms interested in export via e-commerce.

VOV.VN - The European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) has announced that it has worked with EU diplomats to affirm that Vietnam should be among the developing countries with the highest priority to receive vaccines from COVAX.

Vietnam is becoming a more important piece of the global supply chain, despite the supply chain and shutdown problems facing the country at present, Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (AmCham Vietnam) Adam Sitkoff has told Bloomberg Television.

The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) and Alibaba.com, the global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform of the Alibaba Group, have jointly launched a programme to support Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in overcoming COVID-19.

VOV.VN - The Consulate General of Vietnam in Shanghai (China) and the Foreign Affairs Office of Jiangsu province (China) jointly organized a conference on September 7 to promote cooperation between Jiangsu and Vietnamese localities.

Standard Chartered Vietnam and the British Chamber of Commerce (Britcham) in Vietnam have signed a cooperation agreement to promote sustainable development in Vietnam and apply environment, society and governance (ESG) criteria in businesses.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s task force in collaboration with the Viettel Post Joint Stock Corporation (Viettel Post) have launched a shopping service on Viettel Post’s Voso.vn e-commerce platform to help people access sources of food without leaving their homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has postponed the preliminary determination of the anti-dumping investigations of raw honey originated from Argentina, Brazil, Ukraine, India and Vietnam.