The U.S. Senate approved 56-41 a measure that will reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S.

Vietnam’s export-import value in the first four months of this year was estimated at 210 billion USD, down 13.6% year-on-year, with a trade surplus of 6.35 billion USD.

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has announced the extension of the deadline for issuing its final conclusion on an anti-dumping tax evasion investigation into stainless steel wires imported from Vietnam, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Implementing tax reduction under the ASEAN - India Trade in Goods Agreement (AIFTA) for the 2022 – 2027 period, from December 31, 2021, all tariff lines in Vietnam's Normal Track (NT) reduced to 0%, tariff lines of all items subject to Sensitive Track (ST) and Highly Sensitive List (HSL) will reduce on December 31, 2023.

To concretize its commitments to "stop and reverse" deforestation and land degradation, Europe has passed bills to ban the import of items related to deforestation. Accordingly, importers and exporters will have to trace the origin of imported products sold on the European market, whether they are produced in areas with deforestation or not.

On April 25, 2023, a domestic producer of boltless steel shelving filed a petition with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of antidumping (AD) duties on imports of boltless steel shelving units prepackaged for sale from India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. 

After the Dien pomelo and Tan Lac red pomelo, the export of Vietnam's first seven tons of Cao Phong oranges to the UK (January 5, 2023) is a signal that Vietnamese agricultural products are increasingly gaining a foothold and having many opportunities for export to the UK market.

Vietnam earned some 15.66 billion USD from agro-forestry-aquatic product exports in the first four months of 2023, down 13.3% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.