After 1 year of implementing the Vietnam - UK Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA), bilateral trade between the two countries has had positive results. However, there is still plenty of room for businesses to promote e-commerce application in import and export activities.

Algeria has just updated the list of 2,608 imported products subject to the provisional additional defensive tax (DAPS) instead of the current 992 products (an increase of 1,616 new items).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Circular 25/2021/TT-BCT amending and supplementing Circular 33/2019/TT-BCT stipulating the Criteria System of the Vietnam National Brand Program, taking effect from 07/02/2022.

This is the content of Decree 08/2022/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection, effective from January 10, 2022.

Vietnam's dragon fruit has been exported to India since 2014 and is increasingly popular in India, the export value is increasing year by year and reaching 10 million USD in 2019-2020, decreasing in 2020-2021 due to Covid-19 epidemic and increased again in the first months of 2021-2022, however, it is still far behind the potential and demand of India.

On January 15, the Government has just issued Decree No. 11/2022/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 103/2020/ND-CP on certification of aromatic rice varieties exported to the Union European Union to guide the implementation of certification of aromatic rice varieties for export to the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Pursuant to the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh in Notice No. 08/TB-VPCP dated January 10, 2022 of the Government Office, the People's Committee of Lang Son province announces the following:

The demand for goods on e-commerce channels has exploded, leading to the fact that the control and identification of seller accounts, posting of offers and offers to buy are not really tight. In order to clarify solutions to tighten this activity, a reporter from Industry and Trade Newspaper had an interview with Mr. Le Duc Anh - Director of the Center for Informatics and Digital Technology (Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy, Ministry of Industry and Trade).

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is actively consulting experts to develop an architectural framework and specific action plan for the Project "Promoting the application of information technology and digital transformation in trade promotion activities (XTTM). period 2021 - 2030", is expected to be issued in the first quarter of 2022. The project is expected to create a big change in XTTM activities.