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After a tepid recovery in 2023, Vietnam’s trade machine appears to be firing on all cylinders so far in 2024. The country boosted exports 16.8% year-on-year to $92.9 billion in the first quarter, underpinning gross domestic product growth of 5.7%. This ...

The Beijing trade engine has been slumping this year amid a tepid global economy, so a surprising jump in Chinese imports in April has raised the prospect of a China-led recovery. Total Chinese imports rose 8.4% year-on-year in April to $220.1 billon, almost ...

China’s electric car export boom has fueled demand in the country for automobile transport ships, driving up prices for foreign buyers.
Overall, in March, Chinese ship exports fell 5.9% year-on-year by quantity in March to 399, after steadily rising for most of ...

Don’t let anybody tell you that globalization is dying—at least, not yet.
Global trade economists obsess over consumer demand and rising protectionism in the U.S. and Europe, but this week’s release of Chinese trade statistics shows that other markets might soon be ...

In a tricky global economy, Vietnamese exports shrank in 2023, but the rising economic power managed to be one of the only countries to increase merchandise exports to China, thanks to a surprising surge in exports of fruits and vegetables, as well ...

As we enter the third year after the invasion of Ukraine, the landscape of Ukrainian trade, and, specifically, exports of wheat, have drastically evolved. As the world’s 4th-largest exporter of wheat and meslin in 2023, Ukraine has remained a relatively stable ...

In the somewhat gloomy December and annual China trade statistics released in the second week of January was buried a piece of data that hearkened back to the boom years of Chinese commodity consumption: China is buying a lot more iron ...

As European Union leaders gathered in Beijing Thursday, one of their demands for China was a more equal trading relationship. “China is the EU’s most important trading partner,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “But there are clear imbalances ...

It’s not been an easy time for international trade, as a recent report co-authored by Trade Data Monitor and the World Intellectual Property Organization found.
High-tech exports are set to decline by 4 percent in 2023, according to the TDM/WIPO analysis. Global and ...

Government agency website
Vietnam Customs (GDVC): https://www.customs.gov.vn/home.aspx?language=en-US
Dong Nai Customs: https://www.dncustoms.gov.vn/
Ho Chi Minh City Customs: https://hqhcm.gov.vn
National Single Window Portal (VNSW): https://vnsw.gov.vn
Vietnam Trade Information Portal (VTIP):
https://www.vietnamtradeportal.gov.vn
Copyright Office (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism): http://www.cov.gov.vn
Vietnam Intellectual Property Office: http://www.ipvietnam.gov.vn/
Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTAP) Electronic Information Portal: https://fta.moit.gov.vn
International Trade Procedures Information Portal in ...

Domestic support organizations and networks
Women's Business Startup Support Page (of the Vietnam Women's Union): http://www.hoilhpn.org.vn/web/ho-tro-phu-nu-khoi-nghiep-va-khoi-su-kinh-doanh
Vietnam Association of Women Entrepreneurs: http://vawe.org.vn/
Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council: http://vwec.com.vn/
Vietnam Business Network Supporting Women's Empowerment: https://vbcwe.com/
Women's Initiative for Startups and Entrepreneurship (WISE): https://wisevietnam.org/
Hanoi Association of Small and Medium Enterprises Women: http://kinhdoanhdientu.vn/ , https://www.facebook.com/hawasme01/
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What is the EUVFTA?
Signed into effect by the European Parliament and Vietnam at the end of June 2020, the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EUVFTA) is both a trade agreement and an investment protection agreement that offers opportunities for trade, jobs and ...