Deputy Trade Minister Jeong Dae-jin plans to visit Washington this week for talks on supply chains of key materials and steel tariff issues, the trade ministry said Sunday.

Việt Nam will step up its processed coffee industry to take full advantage of the benefits from free trade agreements, towards the goal ofaiming for an export target of US$6 billion by 2030, said a representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The upcoming official visit by Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue to the Republic of Korea (RoK) starting December 12 is viewed as an opportunity to lift the countries’ strategic cooperative partnership to a new height, towards bringing two-way trade to 100 billion USD in a balanced, sustainable and effective manner.

Vietnamese shrimp export revenues are expected to reach 3.9 billion this year, up 4% compared to 2020, as heard at a conference on December 10, to discuss the development of the shrimp industry for 2022.

The number of trade remedy cases initiated by foreign countries and territories against Vietnamese exported goods is increasing rapidly, according to Lê Triệu Dũng, director of the Trade Remedies Authority of Việt Nam.

The Finance Ministry has imposed definitive anti-dumping duty on certain flat-rolled products of aluminium (FRPA) from China.

Commerce finalized its findings that Thai exports of circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes, which are used in plumbing and air conditioning systems, were being dumped in the U.S. between March 2019 and February 2020, according to a review published Wednesday. 

Representatives of over 120 Vietnamese enterprises operating in agriculture, food, and interior and exterior decoration participated in an online consultation session on export to South Africa on December 8.