VOV.VN - The plastics sector’s import surplus dipped 17.5% to US$3.54 billion last year, according to the Vietnam Plastics Association (VPA). 

Vietnam's logistics sector is expected to maintain high growth this year, according to a Vietcombank Securities (VCBS) report.

Japanese experts in the field of copyright and related right protection shared experience with their Vietnamese colleagues in how to develop collective management organisations (CMOs) for copyright and related rights at a workshop on January 28. 

Vietnamese firms involved in fishery and agricultural products were urged to study the sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) of the European Union (EU) markets to opimise opportunities for both sides.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) would consider allowing some ailing financial companies and people's credit funds to declare bankruptcy this year, according to Deputy Governor Nguyen Phuoc Thanh.

Vietnamese export firms have mixed feelings, both happy and worried, about business prospects for this year. 

Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) is forecasted to expand 6.82% in 2016, according to the macroeconomic report for quarter IV, the whole year of 2015 and the outlook for 2016 announced by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) on January 28.

Vietnam’s index of industrial production (IIP) in January posted a 5.9% increase year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

When import tariffs on fashion products fall from 20% to zero% after the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) takes effect, Vietnamese fashion brands are expected to encounter significant challenges.

Vietnam shipped abroad phones and phone components worth US$30.18 billion last year, up 27.9% from a year earlier, according to the General Department of Customs.