Vietnam gained a 33% year-on-year increase in the fruit and vegetable export value to reach US$1.17 billion for the first half of 2016, officials said.

Vietnam’s retail market is promising, but local businesses must strengthen operations in order to compete with international investors right in the home market, experts said during a workshop in HCM City on July 1. 

Export of farmed fish brought home nearly US$3.1 billion in the first six months of the year, a year-on-year surge of 3.8%, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade will likely continue to require importers of complete built up (CBU) cars with less than nine seats to show proof that they are authorised dealers for foreign automakers.

VOV.VN - The seafood industry is looking for a 4.5% increase in exports this year after shipments to overseas markets fell by US$1.2 billion in 2015, says the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP).

VOV.VN - The flow of trade between Vietnam and the rest of the world is set to enter a prolonged period of disruption after voters in the UK opted to exit the EU.

VOV.VN - Automotive imports into Vietnam fell significantly in the first six months of 2016, according to data compiled by the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vice Chairman of the Ha Giang provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Minh Tien has called on Japan’s Vietnam Economic Research Institute (VERI) to assist the locality in opening a representative office in the country in order to promote trade between the two sides.

Over 65% of tariff lines will be lowered to zero for the products Vietnam imports from Mexico, right after the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement becomes effective, stated Vietnamese Ambassador to Mexico Le Linh Lan. 

Airport Corporation of Vietnam has just requested permission from the Ministry of Transport to raise service fees at domestic airports.