Following a sharp increase in both volume and price, coffee has risen to quickly become an export agricultural product with strong growth in the first quarter of the year.
The UK's secretary of state for international trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, has "called in" the Trade Remedies Authority's (TRA's) reconsideration of its steel safeguard review, meaning she assumes responsibility for the review and its outcome.
U.S. trade officials on Monday said they will launch an investigation that could result in tariffs on solar panels imported from four Southeast Asian nations, a blow to clean energy project developers that rely on cheap imports to keep costs down.
The new three-trigger safeguard mechanism will reportedly allow U.S. exporters to meet Japan’s growing demand for high-quality beef and reduce the probability that Japan will impose higher tariffs in the future.
The first half of March saw Vietnam's overall export turnover reach US$15.32 billion, marking a sharp increase of nearly 76% over the same period from last month, while import turnover hit roughly US$15.23 billion, a rise of 20.3%, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.