The city’s total import-export turnover reached US$60.1 billion in 2024, up 11% year-on-year.

The city will continue to support businesses in exploring new markets, capitalizing on the Free Trade Agreement of which Vietnam is a member.

Local consumers prefer shopping options that offer convenience and assurance of product origin.

Vietnam`s total retail sales and services revenue crossed 309.3 trillion Vietnamese dong (13.75 billion U.S. dollars) in February 2017, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) on Friday.

According to the announcement of the Vietnam E-commerce Association (Vecom), HCM City took the lead the 2016 e-Business Index (EBI), with 78.6 points, followed by Hanoi (75.8 points).

At the meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on February 17, CEO of Unilever Paul Polman said that Vietnam is an important market of Unilever and committed to continuing long-term business in the country.

China remained the biggest trade partner of Vietnam in the first month of 2017, according to Vietnam Customs on Monday.

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has recently sent his letter to the Minister of Commerce and Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Australia, calling on the Australian Government to soon lift its ban on prawn and uncooked shelled shrimp imports.

Vietnam and Laos are striving to bring up bilateral trade revenue by 10 percent in 2017, said Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday.

The Southeast Asia (ASEAN) is the world`s fastest growing internet region. However, ASEAN nations are facing with three major challenges in the digital technology, including localized data, ensuring of network security and the assurance of data privacy.

Vietnam expects to achieve 3 billion U.S. dollars in export value of vegetables and fruits in 2017, according to Vietnam Vegetable and Fruit Association.

Rubber was the only product maintaining stable export growth among agriculture, forestry and aquaculture products, with 193 million USD earned from shipments of 102,000 tonnes, up 84.8 percent in value and 10.5 percent in volume from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam is expected to pocket 14.6 billion U.S. dollars from exports in January 2017, down 12 percent from the previous month, said Vietnam Customs.

Vietnam set a targeted to export 360,000 tons of cashew nuts to pocket some 3 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, an increase of 3.4 percent in volume and 5.6 percent in value year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas).

Vietnam exported a total of 177,000 tons of pepper worth 1.42 billion U.S. dollars in 2016, breaking the earlier record of 1.29 billion U.S. dollars set in 2015, according to Vietnam Pepper Association (VPA).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) should devise policies for developing some important industries and encourage all economic sectors, including State-owned enterprises, FDI firms, equitised companies, and cooperatives, to engage in developing industry and trade, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a teleconference on January 6.

For years, the local road 442 through Luu Xa village, Duc Giang commune, Hoai Duc district has formed a busy craft town with rice trading activities.

Vietnam spent some 2.322 billion U.S. dollars on importing 115,000 automobiles in 2016.

Total export revenue of Samsung Electronics Vietnam Company Limited (SEV) is expected to reach 36.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2016, up 9.3 percent year-on-year, despite the Galaxy Note 7 incident, SEV announced.

Export revenue of Vietnamese timber and wood products is estimated to reach 7.3 billion U.S. dollars, up 1 percent yer-on-year, according the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

On August 11, a workshop on the project "Law on amending and supplementing laws on investment and business" organized by the Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM), the incompatibilities among provisions of the Law on Investment and Law on Enterprises together with the provisions of other relevant laws, including the Law on Land were figured out.

Many Vietnamese enterprises have branched out to the world and made contribution to bringing Vietnamese brands closer to international consumers.

“Hanoi Goods Week in Moscow 2016” will focus on typical goods of Hanoi, and create chances for Hanoi enterprises to connect to trade goods.