Several measures have been recommended to help Vietnamese exporters cope with dwindling demand in many markets around the world

The agricultural sector is anticipated to face many difficulties in 2023, especially in terms of exports. Despite a decline in the export turnover of agricultural, forestry and fishery products in the first six months of 2023, positive signs have been recorded in several export products, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien at a regular press conference on July 3.

The Vietnam Fertilizer Association proposed to reduce export tax on urea fertilizers to zero to increase the competitive of exports.

ndia has imposed anti‑dumping duties (ADD) on seven Chinese product types, starting December 2021. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) issued a series of notifications (69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76 and 77 of 2021)

Clyde Prestowitz writes that Chinese solar panels dominate the global market due to Chinese government intervention in the form of production subsidy and import protection (“The west should reflect on China’s example on solar”, Letters, June 3). No evidence is given, but it makes for a nice soundbite on jobs and growth in the west.

A new European law that imposes the first ever carbon border tax in the world comes into force in October 2023. It will be applied gradually over the next three years before it is fully implemented.

The European Commission has confirmed the terms of its steel import safeguarding measures for the 12 months to June 30, 2024.

Decree No. 26/2023/ND-CP dated May 31, 2023, of the Government on Export Tariffs, Preferential Import Tariffs, List of goods and absolute tax rates, mixed taxes, import taxes out of quotas have revised some contents of the tax incentive program for manufacturing and assembling automobiles