VGP – As many as four Vietnamese companies were named in the Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list.

VGP – Viet Nam’s export turnover of computers, electronic products and spare parts may reach US$ 50 billion in 2021, representing a year-on-year increase of 13.5% despite negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

VGP – Viet Nam has overtaken Bangladesh as the world’s second largest exporter of ready-made garments, according to the latest figures from the World Trade Statistical Review 2021 released by World Trade Organization (WTO).

VGP - Viet Nam ranks 39th among 160 countries and territories, and third in ASEAN in logistics performance index (LPI), said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh at a workshop on July 30.

VGP – The value of EU-Viet Nam trade reached US$27 billion in the first half of 2021, a year-on-year increase of more than 18 percent, which is regarded as a remarkable achievement in the current pandemic time.

VGP – Viet Nam gained US$13.9 billion from exporting to ASEAN nations in the first half of 2021, a year-on-year increase of 28.2 percent, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. 

VGP - The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on July 23 issued a formal determination in the Viet Nam Currency Section 301 investigation reflecting the agreement reached earlier this week between the Department of the Treasury and the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV). 

VGP – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lowered Viet Nam’s economic growth forecast this year to 5.8 percent from 6.7 percent in April in its Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2021 Supplement: Renewed Outbreaks and Divergent Recoveries which was published in July. 

VGP – Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has become an effective method to help businesses overcome difficulties and barriers posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and is also expected to be the “key” opening the way for Vietnamese goods to further penetrate into the global market.