The Tariff Commission (TC) has begun the formal investigation into the anti-dumping case lodged against the importation of Vietnam cement products used for infrastructure construction.

Countries, led by the US, India and China, doubled their use of anti-dumping measures in the pandemic period (July 2020-June 2021) against cheap inflow of certain goods, such as steel and chemicals, but most nations demonstrated restraint in the imposition of new trade restrictive measures related to the pandemic, numbers collated by a recent WTO report show.

Deputy Trade Minister Jeong Dae-jin plans to visit Washington this week for talks on supply chains of key materials and steel tariff issues, the trade ministry said Sunday.

Việt Nam will step up its processed coffee industry to take full advantage of the benefits from free trade agreements, towards the goal ofaiming for an export target of US$6 billion by 2030, said a representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The upcoming official visit by Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue to the Republic of Korea (RoK) starting December 12 is viewed as an opportunity to lift the countries’ strategic cooperative partnership to a new height, towards bringing two-way trade to 100 billion USD in a balanced, sustainable and effective manner.

Vietnamese shrimp export revenues are expected to reach 3.9 billion this year, up 4% compared to 2020, as heard at a conference on December 10, to discuss the development of the shrimp industry for 2022.

The number of trade remedy cases initiated by foreign countries and territories against Vietnamese exported goods is increasing rapidly, according to Lê Triệu Dũng, director of the Trade Remedies Authority of Việt Nam.

The Finance Ministry has imposed definitive anti-dumping duty on certain flat-rolled products of aluminium (FRPA) from China.