Vietnam exported wood and timber products worth US$1.48 billion to 38 markets in the first two months of 2018, a year-on-year rise of 38.3%.

Hoa Phat Group, a major industrial group in Vietnam, announced that it exported 30,800 tonnes of steel to the US, Australia and Asian countries in February.

Economy should lie at the heart of India-Vietnam relations, according to an article posted on the Times of India on February 27 on the occasion of the upcoming visit to India by Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang from March 2-4.

Vietnamese importers have stopped buying raw cashew from Africa due to high prices, a representative of the Vietnam Cashew Association (VINACAS) said at a conference in HCM City on February 27.

Vietnam’s import-export revenue amounted to US$57.12 billion from the beginning of 2018 to mid-February, up 37.2% compared to the same period last year.

VOV.VN - Businesses are facing shortages of material Tra fish whereas the prices of Tra fish (pangasius) in the Mekong Delta is setting a record high, outstripping VND30,000 VND per kilo, thereby generating high profit to local farmers.

Automobile imports in Vietnam plummeted in the first month of 2018, also the time before Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

VOV.VN - Agroforestry and seafood exports likely reach an estimated US$2.6 billion in February, bringing the two-month total export value of the year to US$6.1 billion, up 30.2% year on year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Total export revenue during the week-long Tet holiday, which lasted from February 14-20, reached US$289 million, up nearly 50% against the same period last year. 

Australia will cut 90% of import tariff lines in 2018 and 100% of them in 2020 under the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) roadmap, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).