With many orders and good market signals, shrimp processing and exporting enterprises are looking forward to restoring production to take advantage of the peak months of the year to accelerate exports of this product.

Consumers in Sydney in New South Wales state of Australia on September 19 had a chance to taste Vietnamese farm produce as part of the weekend farm produce fair.

Localities and firms in the spices and seasoning industry should devise production recovery plans, apply advanced technologies, diversify products and capitalise on recent new-generation free trade agreements to which Việt Nam is a signatory to bolster exports once COVID-19 is brought under control, a senior trade official has said.

The Indian Finance Ministry has imposed definitive anti-dumping duty on “Aluminium Foil” (of thickness of 80 microns and below) imports from China, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. 

It is forecast that thanks to the effectiveness of the EVFTA, the European markets will have high demand for importing shrimp at year-end. Large-scale shrimp exporters have begun to push up production to ensure competitive capacity in this potential market.

The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), under the ministry of commerce & industry, Government of India, has recommended imposition of anti-dumping duty (ADD) on sodium hydrosulphite (SHS), whether produced using Zinc or Sodium Formate process. The duty would be applicable on SHS originating in or exported from China and South Korea.

Textile, garment and footwear industries are still facing many difficulties due the COVID-19 pandemic, and unable to recover production and business in the short term.

Senior executives from 17 companies and industry association European Aluminium have called on the European Commission (EC) to move forward with anti-dumping duties on aluminium flat-rolled products (FRP) imports from China.