Vietnamese businesses are advised to better exploit the UK-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) to build and develop their brands to expand presence in the UK market amid stiffer competition driven by the “Global Britain” policy.

Vietnamese automobile manufacturing, assembly, and trading enterprises are in trouble due to a dearth of part imports from China, posing a high risk of delaying automobile deliveries to customers and rising prices.

India is negotiating a free trade agreement with the UK, talks for which are expected to conclude this month.

The UK intends to suspend the duty in the amount of EUR 60.5 per ton on hot rolled roll of origin from Ukraine for 9 months.

Vietnam's export value of agro, forestry, aquatic products in the first eight months of the year hit about US$36.3 billion, a year-on-year rise of 13.1 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Currently, many key export groups of Vietnam such as seafood, textiles, footwear, electronics, wood, etc. are facing many difficulties due to their great dependence on imported raw materials.

The commerce ministry’s investigation arm DGTR had conducted a probe to review the need for continuing imposition of anti-dumping duty on the product imported from these countries, following a complaint from the domestic industry.

The poultry industry expects to see an increase in dumped imported chicken, particularly from Brazil, within the next few months after receiving a “licence” to continue their dumping from Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel.