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(vasep.com.vn) In 2014, Hau Giang province set up platforms to purchase main agricultural products from local farmers. Agro products of the province will be displayed and traded there.

(vasep.com.vn) In 2013, the U.S. reduced sharply whiteleg shrimp imports from Thailand that was badly hit by EMS. The market increased importing shrimp from Vietnam and India thanks to their reaped high shrimp production. The shrimp price reached a record high in the U.S. market in 2013 and expected to stay on high levels in 2014.

(vasep.com.vn) The seminar “Cooperation on Science and Technology between Vietnam - Russia” was held in Khanh Hoa in May 23rd 2012 with the participation of more than 50 Vietnam and Russia experts with an aim to evaluate and orient to expand potential cooperation between two countries in fishery sector.

(vasep.com.vn) With some trade agreements signed with Japan and Korea such as Japan-Vietnam Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA), Vietnam-Korea Free Trade Agreement (VKFTA), ASEAN Japan Comprehension Economic Partnership (AJCEP), and ASEAN Korea Free Trade Agreement (AKFTA), Vietnamese products sent to these two countries are going to benefit from a reduction or a future exemption of import taxes. However, Vietnamese export companies also need to find measures to overcome Japanese and Korean non-tariff barriers imposed on imported agricultural and seafood items.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam is on the process of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiation with the Customs Union of Russia - Belarus – Kazakhstan. Negotiations finished in this year are expected to enable Vietnam exporters to penetrate the lucrative market, the Vietnamese embassy’s trade counselor Pham Quang Niem said.

(IntraFish) Eight months after the US and European Union signed a landmark bill to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, WWF is urgently calling on EU and US leaders for stronger action to end unfair fishing practices and to fight trade in illegal fish products.

(vasep.com.vn) On January 21st 2014, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (MHLW) issued official announcement on increasing maximum residue limits (MRL) of Ethoxyquin (an anti-oxidant substance used in shrimp feed production) on Vietnam shrimp imported into the market. The new MRL is 0.2 ppm, 20-fold increase from the current level of 0.01ppm. Moreover, Japan decided to lift the regulation of 100 percent Ethoxyquin testing on Vietnam’s shrimp imported into the market.

(VNS) The seafood industry should soon work with trade authorities to remove raw seafood for processing from the list of goods requiring an automatic import licence, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien has said.