Thailand has proposed the imposition of anti-dumping duty at a maximum of 40.49 per cent on Việt Nam’s steel products imported into the country.

The customs sector can’t reform or develop effectively without comprehensive measures and co-operation from business and other sectors, a meeting heard yesterday.

Local exporters, freight forwarding firms and seaports are calling for Government support to ease the effects of the bankruptcy filed by South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Global (HJS), the world’s seventh-largest container carrier.

Investors prefer ‘binary’ audit reports in which the auditor must either commit to a ‘clean’ opinion or qualify the accounts, according to a report drawn up using feedback from several conferences held by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Grant Thornton in seven countries.

Some major commercial banks lowered interest rates for deposits in đồng with terms of less than a year, by 0.3-0.5 percentage points, on September 26.

As trade and commerce is expected to increase between Southeast Asian countries and between them and the world, there will be more opportunities for logistics services providers in the region to connect with each other to take goods to the consumers and to increase their efficiency, according to Thailand’s Department of International Trade Promotion.

South Korea retained its position as Việt Nam’s leading source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first nine months of this year, the latest report from the Foreign Investment Agency has revealed.

Food Safety and Inspection Service, the public health agency under the US Department of Agriculture, has allowed two more Vietnamese firms to export Siluriformes fish to the United States.

The benchmark VN Index managed to hit a ten-year high on late buying after being pulled down below last week’s closing level by profit-taking.