China has become the 16th WTO member to formally accept the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Ambassador Jianhua Yu submitted China’s instrument of acceptance of the TFA to WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo on 4 September.
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With the sudden depreciation of China’s renminbi, it’s worth looking at the link between currency values and trade agreements. China’s currency last week dropped by a cumulative 4.4% against the U.S. dollar, making Chinese exports cheaper and imports into China more expensive by that amount.
“Global Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce 2015”, a new report by Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com, unveils the great potential of cross-border online retail worldwide. According to the report, the value of purchases made directly by online shoppers across the national borders is predicted to see double-digit growth rates over the course of the next five years.
Vietnam is the most investment worthy place in ASEAN – this is a common response of many foreign investors when being asked about their investment plan in the upcoming years. This is not an exaggeration about Vietnam’s current investment environment as well as its potentiality but is in fact based on valid and practical grounds, where improved economic diversification, international integration, reformed investment legislation and good economic policy must be counted.
The European Union (EU) meat and livestock sector has welcomed the recent EU-Vietnamese free trade agreement. The industry said it could help exporters sell more pork and poultry to this growing emerging market of 84 million people.
This has been excerpted from the 18 August 2015 edition of Global Meat News and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Industry-Markets/EU-Vietnam-trade-deal-creates-positivity
Aug 20 Japan on Thursday asked the World Trade Organization to set up a panel to rule on South Korea's import bans and testing requirements for Japanese food after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, since the restrictions show no signs of being eased.
Japan launched a trade complaint at the WTO in May, saying the South Korean measures violated a WTO agreement and that Seoul had failed to justify the measures as required.
