The National Standardisation Strategy for 2030 has set a target of raising Vietnam’s harmonisation ratio with international, regional and foreign standards to at least 65% by 2025 and 75% by 2030.

Vietnam's businesses need to diversify their products to meet the needs of the Netherlands market to boost exports to this market.

The U.S. Senate approved 56-41 a measure that will reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S.

Vietnam’s export-import value in the first four months of this year was estimated at 210 billion USD, down 13.6% year-on-year, with a trade surplus of 6.35 billion USD.

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has announced the extension of the deadline for issuing its final conclusion on an anti-dumping tax evasion investigation into stainless steel wires imported from Vietnam, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Implementing tax reduction under the ASEAN - India Trade in Goods Agreement (AIFTA) for the 2022 – 2027 period, from December 31, 2021, all tariff lines in Vietnam's Normal Track (NT) reduced to 0%, tariff lines of all items subject to Sensitive Track (ST) and Highly Sensitive List (HSL) will reduce on December 31, 2023.

To concretize its commitments to "stop and reverse" deforestation and land degradation, Europe has passed bills to ban the import of items related to deforestation. Accordingly, importers and exporters will have to trace the origin of imported products sold on the European market, whether they are produced in areas with deforestation or not.

On April 25, 2023, a domestic producer of boltless steel shelving filed a petition with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of antidumping (AD) duties on imports of boltless steel shelving units prepackaged for sale from India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.