The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will coordinate with Vietnam’s trade offices in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to organise a consulting session on rice exports.
ASEAN and the United States (U.S) reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening their dialogue relations at the 13th Meeting of the ASEAN-U.S. Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) held at the ASEAN Secretariat on 12 April.
As an effective regional governance structure, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gives a forum for Southeast Asian members to share ideas and reach provisional agreements. Bangladesh presently stands firmly at ASEAN’s west door, drawing even closer to China’s strategical periphery, thanks to the expansion of ASEAN to a ten-member grouping.
Thai Minister of Digital Economy and Society Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn on May 5 affirmed that Thailand wants to cooperate with Vietnam in such fields as information infrastructure, cloud computing, social network management, digital transformation and digital economy.
Vietnam has been maintaining its position as Canada's largest trading partner in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region since 2015, Julie Dai Trang Nguyen, director of the Canada-Vietnam Society (CVS), told the standing committee on international trade under Canada’s House of Commons. Bilateral trade turnover exceeded $6 billion last year, up by 19 per cent over the 2020 figure.
Vietnam is one of Chile's important partners in Southeast Asia, newly-appointed Chilean Foreign Minister Urrejola Noguera affirmed during a reception for Vietnamese Ambassador to Chile Pham Truong Giang who paid a courtesy visit on May 2.
The RCEP trade deal gives a big boost to Cambodia’s economy, with export to the member countries of the mega-pact up 11 percent in Q1. The top three export destinations are Vietnam, China and Thailand.
Professor Julie Dai Trang Nguyen (Julie Nguyen), director of the Canada-Vietnam Society (CVS), highlighted the importance of Vietnam to Canadian businesses during talks at the Standing Committee on International Trade under the House of Commons of Canada on April 27.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
