Vietnam highly values and welcomes the outcomes of the strategic partnership between ASEAN and New Zealand, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung said at the 24th ASEAN-New Zealand Dialogue held in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 21-22.
Malaysia has been China’s largest trading partner in the ASEAN region since 2008, and it is its third biggest Asian trading partner after Japan and South Korea. Bilateral trade between the two countries, which grew at 4.4 percent in 2016, is expected to continue expanding.
Leaders of the Philippines and Thailand have vowed to strengthen defense and economic cooperation and reaffirmed their commitment to work together to address common concerns.
Israel wants to expand co-operation with Việt Nam in the fields of agriculture, space technology, and defense security, President Reuven Rivlin told Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc during their meeting in Hà Nội.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström visited Manila recently to discuss trade with Asean Economic Ministers. The summit was a milestone in itself as the Ministers discussed the next steps toward the resumption of the Asean-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations as well as ways to enhance economic cooperation in addressing emerging challenges and capitalizing on opportunities for trade and investment between the two regions.
A visiting Chinese official said the Philippines has an important role to play in the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), particularly in improving regional cooperation, as the country chairs the Asean this year.
Việt Nam is ready to work with the Republic of Korea (RoK) to effectively implement the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), boosting their trade to US$70 billion, perhaps even $100 billion, by 2020
Economic ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ended their meeting on Friday, vowing to deepen and expand trade integration through regional trade partnership.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
