Soaring inflation, rising production costs and fluctuation in exchange rates have caused great difficulties for production and import-export activities, and will linger on to the rest of the year, prompting the Ministry of Industry and Trade to give timely responding measures to maintain export growth.

The National Center for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast on August 10 launched a workshop assessing the Top 500 Vietnamese largest private enterprises.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on May 25 expressed his concern that this year’s growth target will be hard to reach during the third working day of the third session of the 15th-tenure National Assembly in Hanoi.

Vietnam and Canada have enjoyed robust trade ties thanks to opportunities brought by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) that took effect in Vietnam from January 14, 2019, heard a conference held in Hanoi on March 23.

A conference was held in Hanoi on September 23 to seek solutions to support and create favorable conditions for businesses to export goods and services to the ASEAN market.

Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of 1.8 billion USD in the first seven months of the year, according to the General Statistic Office of Vietnam.

With a view to removing barriers and difficulties in import and export activities, the Ministry of Finance has recently issued Circular 95/2018/TT-BTC, annulling a number of circulars on import and export duties.

The Government on June 19 issued Resolution 51/NQ-CP to enact an action program to achieve the targets set forth in Politburo Resolution No. 07 dated November 18, 2016, on guidelines and measures to restructure the state budget and manage public debts in order to ensure the safety and sustainability of the national finance.

President Truong Tan Sang and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on December 9 pledged to foster the traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation between the two peoples.

The Customs Law (the Law), which was passed in June this year, aims to comprehensively renovate customs activities through modernization of customs management in accordance with international practices, ensure national interests and security, attract foreign investment and raise domestic and international competitiveness of enterprises