Vietnam’s leather and footwear industry expects to reach a total export value of US$17 billion this year, partly due to advantageous business conditions.

Dynamic youth are likely to help Ho Chi Minh City realise its goal of doubling the number of enterprises in 2020, visiting senior advisor to the US Secretary of State David Thorne said to local authorities on March 8. 

A wide range of furniture, handicrafts, interior décor and support industry products are on display at the VIFA-EXPO 2016 that opened in HCM City on March 8.

A delegation of Vietnamese finance, customs and taxation officials visited Switzerland and met with officials of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the Swiss Federal Customs Administration and Federal Department of Finance from March 5 – 8. 

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has recently issued Decision No 862/QD-BCT on applying temporary safeguard measures against steel ingots and long steel products imported into Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The government should focus its efforts over the next couple of years on the development of post-trade systems to speed integration of financial markets across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has said.

As many as 28 million shares of the Viet Tien Garment Corporation, one of the largest garment companies in Vietnam, will be traded on the UpCom transaction floor as of October 10.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact will bring big opportunities for Vietnam to implement institutional and economic reforms and reduce its dependence on China, said former Minister of Trade Truong Dinh Tuyen.

Relying on some certain trade partners is risky, especially China, which can be unpredictable.

VOV.VN - Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Vice Chairman Doan Duy Khuong on March 7 delivered the keynote address kicking off a Vietnam-Guangxi Business Forum in Hanoi.