The 6th Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Commission meeting was held on October 8, 2022, under the chairmanship of Singapore's Minister of Trade and Industry, Gan Kim Yong with the participation of Ministers and Senior Officials of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand,...
On 5 October 2022, Malaysia officially announced that it completed the ratification procedures pursuant to Article 3. Entry in force of the CPTPP Agreement. It is expected that the CPTPP Agreement will officially enter into force for Malaysia on 29 November 2022.
In August 2022, chemical imports from the EU decreased slightly, with a value of more than 37.8 million USD, down 7.8% from the previous month but increasing by 131.2% over the same period in 2021. In the first eight months of 2022, chemical imports from the EU reached more than 265.9 million USD, up 114.1 % over the same period last year.
The U.S. and the European Union likely will resolve some -- but not all -- of the EU’s concerns about the Inflation Reduction Act before certain controversial provisions in the law come into effect on Jan. 1, EU Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Thursday.
A string of new policies on vehicle registration fee, termination of compulsory unemployment insurance premium, electronic identification and authentication and cybersecurity are scheduled to come into effect in October 2022.
Within the framework of the national program on trade promotion 2022, the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency, the Ministry of Industry and Trade in coordination with the Vietnam Trade Office - Vietnamese Embassy in Germany, Consulate General of Vietnam in Frankfurt, the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade (BWA) has...
Malaysia is a country that does not have good soil conditions for growing rice, focusing on oil palm and rubber. The cultivated area of this country is relatively low, with only 700,000 hectares of rice growing which is also the smallest rice growing area in the Southeast Asia. Their rice self-sufficiency can only meet about 65-70% of the domestic...
In the context of the energy crisis affecting all aspects of the economy, Europe is turning to coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers in Southeast Asia to make up shortfalls after Russia cut gas supplies related to the conflict in Ukraine.
According to preliminary statistics of the General Department of Customs, our country's footwear export turnover to EVFTA partners in August 2022 reached US$515.2 million, down 4.2% compared to July/July. 2022 but increased by 275.8% over the same period last year. Generally, in the first eight months of 2022, footwear exports to EVFTA partners...
Regulations on recording audio and video at court sessions, extracting information on the national population database shall come into effect from September.