The Vietnam-Eurasia Economic Union Free Trade Agreement (VN-EAEU FTA) will take effect on October 5, 2016, according to an announcement released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). 

VOV.VN - Vietnamese shoppers are set to spend an estimated US$45 million on Online Friday this year, the organizers have announced.

VOV.VN - A seminar was held in Hanoi on August 18 gathering a large number of local businessmen and government officials to discuss ways to stimulate trade and investment with the Middle Eastern and African economies.

VOV.VN - As the Vinamilk brand increases in market share so has the demand for quality breed cows from Australia, the US and New Zealand to ensure the bloodlines are bred to produce the highest quality milk.

The export growth target of 10% for 2016 is unlikely to be achieved if no breakthrough solution is taken, experts have said, noting challenges face the country such as technical barriers and trade protection measures under new-generation free trade agreements set to be signed this year.

A Ministry of Transport unit, the Thang Long Project Management Board, has asked the ministry to examine its feasibility study for the My Thuan-Can Tho Expressway’s first phase.

Many Vietnamese enterprises and associations in Kharkov and Odessa cities of Ukraine are displaying their products at the country’s traditional trade fair Sorochinsky Yarmarok in central province of Poltava, which has been organised annually in mid-August since the 18th century.

VOV.VN - Made in Vietnam spices, food and consumer goods have become more and more familiar to Russian people, said Ambassador to Russia Nguyen Thanh Son at a seminar in Hanoi on August 17 to promote Hanoi Goods Week in Moscow.

Several domestic retailers have been actively changing their business strategies to improve their distribution channels after big foreign supermarkets such as Big C and Metro increased discount levels to 20-25%.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) expects to submit to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc a project to restructure credit institutions between 2016 and 2020 in Q3 of 2016.