Vietnam has many regional specialties, but sales are often through consignment companies that buy and then export across the border. Cross-border electronic commerce (e-commerce) can help direct manufacturers and small manufacturers participate directly in exporting. Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh, Director of the Center for E-commerce Development (Department of E-Commerce and Digital Economy, Ministry of Industry and Trade) said that to improve export capacity through e-commerce, many training activities, equipping skills and knowledge for businesses will continue to be deployed.

The rice trade between Vietnam and the Philippines is forecast to remain steady in the near future, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in the Philippines.

Việt Nam has transformed itself to emerge as a major global production hub capable of supplying a wide range of products at competitive prices and with improving quality, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Phan Thị Thắng said at the Export Forum on Connecting International Supply Chains in HCM City on June 6.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Trung on June 6 held talks with Zhao Zenglian, Vice Minister of the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC), in a bid to enhance the countries’ agro-forestry-fishery trade.

China’s export boom goes far beyond the high-tech industries that are in Western crosshairs, leaving Beijing at risk of a backlash from countries that have so far preferred to sit on the trade-war sidelines.

The US's recognition of Vietnam as a market economy will help expand business opportunities for Vietnamese businesses. In particular, with the growing trade flow between the two countries, exports to the US are more favorable.

After enjoying trade surpluses for the past consecutive 23 months, Vietnam once again slipped into an import surplus in May, sparking concerns about the general health of the economy, although experts say it is not really a worrying sign.

China's commerce ministry on Sunday launched an anti-dumping probe into POM copolymers, a type of engineering plastic, imported from the European Union, United States, Japan and Taiwan.