In the first 6 months of 2025, Vietnam's footwear, garment and textile industries recorded impressive growth of 10.6% for textile and garment and 12% for leather and footwear.
The TRA proposes that an anti-dumping measure on bicycles and bicycle parts from China be maintained, benefitting UK producers by up to £9 million per year.
Multinational mining and metals processing group Sibanye-Stillwater, which is listed in South Africa and America, has filed an antidumping petition with the US DOC and the US ITC on imports of unwrought palladium from Russia.
Shrimpers are praising the Trump administration’s newly announced tariffs on imports from Indonesia and Vietnam as a long-overdue correction to what it calls “counter-productive trade policies.”
Despite these headwinds, the deal has proven highly effective, pushing Vietnam to the top of the EU’s trading partners in Southeast Asia and the EU as Vietnam’s fourth largest trading partner globally.
Five years after the EU-Việt Nam Trade Agreement was signed, Julien Guerrier, EU Ambassador to Việt Nam looks at ways to further unlock its full potential to deepen cooperation between the EU and Việt Nam.