Ha Tien city and Giang Thanh district have been asked
to build a list of border trade infrastructure items, with priority given to
connectivity with Cambodian localities, according to the Vice Chairman of the
provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chin.
Kien Giang has also supported trade promotion and the
attraction of investments in border trade infrastructure construction.
Local competent agencies have taken measures to
simplify
administrative procedures in order to make it easier for traders and
border residents in customs clearance.
The province has effectively implemented cooperation agreements
with Cambodian localities and joined hands with the Cambodian side in national defence
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Apart from challenges, many
opportunities will be offered to the Vietnamese economy in 2021, experts have said.
Such agreements as the Comprehensive and Progressive
Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (
CPTPP) and the EU-Vietnam Free Trade
Agreement (
EVFTA) to which Vietnam is a signatory will open up wide doors for
the country to further integrate into the world.
Economist
Nguyen Minh Phong forecast that Vietnam’s
agriculture, industry, export-import, and the domestic financial, stock and
real estate markets will grow further in the year.
Notably, with the current growth rate of the local processing
sector, Vietnam would join the group of newly-emerging industrialised countries in the coming years.
More trade remedy investigations are expected in 2021. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The
Vietnamese enterprises have been recommended to gear up preparations as more trade remedy investigations are expected in 2021.
Vietnam’s participation in 14
free trade agreements (FTAs) has helped fuel its trading activities.
MoIT data shows that export turnover boomed from 15 billion USD in 2001 to nearly 100 billion USD in 2011 and then 281.5 billion USD in 2020. The figure is expected to rise 4-5 percent this year.
Sharing the same upward trend in exports, however, is the number of trade remedy cases instigated against Vietnamese goods.
Vietnamese exports, including major foreign currency earners like shrimp, tra fish, steel, and wooden products, have been subject to nearly 200 trade remedy cases so far.
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Many northern schools temporarily close due to strong cold spell
Hundreds of schools in the northern region have allowed students to stay at home amid the freezing cold weather when a new strong cold spell has pushed temperature down to below 10 degree C and even under 0 degree C.
Lai Chau alone saw 132 schools close, most in mountainous areas.
The cold spell has brought rain and dropping temperature, and caused frost and snow in high mountain areas. The most affected provinces include Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Son La, Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Yen Bai, and Lang Son, with temperatures dropping even below 0 degree C in high mountainous areas.