The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has today (Thursday 7 April) opened a new anti-subsidy investigation into imports of ironing boards from Turkey.

According to the Viet Nam Beekeepers Association, the majority of beekeepers are currently in the Central Highlands and the Northern Midlands and Mountainous Area. 

The TRA has initiated a Tariff Rate Quota review of steel imports from Russia and Belarus that are part of the UK’s safeguard trade remedy measure.

Việt Nam is to tighten inspection of local agricultural products and packaging in a response to recent incidents in which products from the Southeast Asian country were reported to show signs of deliberate tampering with registered trademarks and origins, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The current scarcity of white meat fish in the UK market is considered a golden opportunity to boost local pangasius (tra fish) exports, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the initiation of an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tax evasion investigation into solar panels imported from several markets, including Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Cambodia.

The Trade Remedies Authority has begun transition reviews into anti-dumping and countervailing measures on Hot Rolled Flat and Coil steel from China.

Vietnam’s seafood exports grew by 40 percent year-on-year in Q1 to US$2.4 billion despite direct impacts of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis.