Taiwan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) has imposed anti-dumping duties of up to 129.32 percent on float glass in sheets sold by suppliers from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, effective from May 22, after those suppliers were found to have sold their products at unfair low prices in the Taiwan market.

Vietnam witnessed declines in exports and imports in the first four months of this year, and exploring new markets is now considered one of the solutions to foreign trade bottlenecks.

Despite an overall export decline due to the shortage of orders, foreign direct invested (FDI) businesses still posted more than $14 billion in trade surplus in the first four months.

The Mercantile Exchange of Vietnam (MXV) is to play an increasingly important role in global trade with changes in the Southeast Asia economy's supply and demand impacting the listed prices of commodities on global exchanges, said trade experts at a workshop held in Hanoi on May 17.

The Japanese market still has much room for growth and development, especially in the key fields of Vietnam, such as agriculture and fishery, textiles, and footwear. However, Vietnamese enterprises must improve their capacity to respond to this market's standards to bring high value to export goods.

The prospect of Vietnam's exports to the Canadian market may be affected by many objective and subjective difficulties.

India sees the proposed levy as discriminatory and a trade barrier, and would question its legality while citing that New Delhi was already following the protocols pledged in the UN Paris climate agreement.

Recently, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced an extension of the time to issue the final conclusion in the case of anti-circumvention investigation of photovoltaic cells products from Vietnam and three other Southeast Asian countries which is Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand.