The Ministry of Industry and Trade has granted 47 certificates of eligibility to rice export businesses over the past year, lifting the number of rice exporters to 182 traders.
The fuel price stabilisation fund helps the central government manage domestic fuel prices for the foreseeable future, said Hoang Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Domestic Market Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in a recent meeting with industry leaders.
According to statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, 10-month export turnover was estimated at US$217 billion, an increase of 7.4 percent over the same period last year, of which, industrial manufacturing contributed most to growth with $182.9 billion.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has recently promulgated the Decision No.2942/QD-BCT on officially imposing anti-dumping duties on some extruded aluminum bar products from China.
Vietnam saw 26 items with export turnover exceeding US$1 billion accounting for 89.8 percent of the total export turnover in the first nine months of this year, reported the Ministry of Industry and Trade on September 30.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, growth in export turnover has been imbalanced with exports to the US, the EU, Japan and South Korea remaining steady whereas exports to China dropping heavily in both volume and value.
Minister Tran Tuan Anh of the Ministry of Industry and Trade said at a conference held on September 13 in Hanoi that the country will overcome difficulties and seek for solutions to sustainably export agricultural and aquatic products to China.
More than 300 participants participated in the Vietnam-US Trade Forum 2019 with the theme ‘Global Supply Chains Movement – Opportunities to Promote Bilateral Trade and Investment’ held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in association with the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (AmCham Vietnam) on September 6 in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade on August 21 collaborated with the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to hold a conference on ‘The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA): Important commitments in agriculture and remarkable issues’ with attendance of the Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong and Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tran Luu Quang.
