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 exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hit 3.463 billion USD in the first seven months of this year, up 23.37 percent year on year, reported Nhan dan (People) daily.

According to an announcement of the National Assembly’s Economic Committee, the 2015 Autumn Economic Forum will be organised in the central province of Thanh Hoa on August 27.

Representatives of Hanoi apparel and footwear businesses met Czech entrepreneurs face-to-face in Prague on August 20 to seek opportunities to make inroads into East European markets via the Czech Republic after a long hiatus.

Vietnamese coffee, tea, confectionery, fine arts and others are on display for the first time at the traditional Ukrainian trade fair taking place in Veliki Sorochinsy, Ukraine’s central province of Poltava from August 18-25.

Opportunities and shortcomings in economic, trade, investment and tourism ties between Vietnam and China were the main topics at a seminar in Beijing on August 20, aiming to help raise bilateral trade value to 100 billion USD.

A delegation of 15 Philippine businesses operating in food, packing and business franchises attended a trade exchange in Ho Chi Minh City on August 18 with Vietnamese enterprises to seek cooperation opportunities in the country.

The Ministry of Finance has sent a document to provincial departments of finance to strengthen the prices management of essential goods, as well as ask transport firms to cut fees based upon recent petrol price decreases.

Vietnam and the EU have reached a framework agreement on the creation of a free trade zone under which almost all customs barriers between the partners will be eliminated.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Decision 8266 approving a detailed design for the competitive electricity wholesale market.

The Vietnam-European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was finalised earlier this month, yet textiles remain a sticking point as EU negotiators fear China will use Vietnam as a backdoor for cheap textile imports into the EU, United Kingdom-based Financial Times reported.

Vietnam continues to grow as a manufacturing hub, climbing to first place on Cushman & Wakefield`s 2014 Growth Index, a ranking of the top 15 manufacturing locations by growth in emerging markets.

The Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) will open a representative office in Hanoi latter this year to embrace economic links with Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued Decision No. 1233 approving a project on import management by 2020 in accordance with international commitments. The decision has been valid since its issuance on August 3.

Vietnam always welcomes and will create the most favourable conditions for Malaysian investors and those from other ASEAN member states to do business in the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung affirmed at the dialogue with members of the ASEAN Business Club (ABC) and Malaysian enterprises in Kuala Lumpur on August 8.

The Vietnam Competition Authority under the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on August 5 that the Australian Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) announced to end its investigation into of galvanised steel imported from Vietnam.

Vietnam completed bilateral negotiations with its partners joining negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in the framework of their recent meeting in Hawaii, the US, reported the Nhan Dan Newspaper.

Departments of Industry and Trade in localities prone to flood and storms must take stock to ensure a stable supply of essential goods and services for affected areas in the rainy and stormy season, a conference heard on August 3.

A parade of the programe titled “Proud of Vietnamese trademarks” in the framework of Week of National Trademark 2015 was held in Hanoi on August 2.

The recently-signed free trade agreement between Vietnam and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will open a lot of favourable opportunities for both Vietnamese and Kazakhstani businesses, especially in tourism secror, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Rapil Zhoshybayev said at the "Doing business in Kazakhstan" forum held in Hanoi on July 30.

The UK hopes to expand business and investment in Vietnam to double bilateral trade in the near future, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said at a workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City on July 30.