Vietnam needs to devise more measures to improve the quality of farm produce in order to meet technical standards of Australia, towards promoting export to the nation, a Vietnamese diplomat has stressed. In an interview with Vietnam News Agency reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing 29th Diplomatic Conference in...
The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science’s Anti-Dumping Commission has officially launched an investigation into the alleged dumping and subsidisation of aluminium extrusions imported from Malaysia and Vietnam. Earlier on June 27, Australian aluminium extrusion manufacturer Capral Limited lodged an application to the commission asking for the investigation, reported...
Vietnam will export close to 18 tonnes of mangoes to Australia on a daily basis in the coming time as part of the agreements reached between the Suoi Lon Mango Cooperative in the southern province of Dong Nai and Australian partners. Director of the cooperative Nguyen The Bao said the...
The Australia Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has announced that a reduction of the intensified inspection frequency on Vietnamese seafood will depend on the results of the examination of exporters’ next shipments to the country. The information was sent in reply to the request by the Department of Agro-Forestry...
Australia, which needs to import 1.7 – 2 billion USD of fruit and vegetable each year, is a potential market for Vietnamese fruit and vegetable but its strict quarantine regulations remain a great obstacle, said the Vietnam Trade Office in the country. According to the Vietnam Customs, Vietnam exported over...
Australia’s Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has certified the Hanoi Irradiation Centre to irradiate Vietnamese lychees exported to the market. The Plant Protection Department under Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development received official recognition from the Australian department on June 20. The lychees will go through irradiation treatment in...
Australian cattle have flooded Vietnam’s market, leading to dropping live-cattle prices, reported Australian ABC radio. Vietnam imported 311,523 head from Australia in 2015 and more than 20,000 so far this year. The figures have caused domestic sale prices for feedlotters to fall significantly. A Vietnamese feedlot operator who has imported Australian...
Australian agencies are finalising procedures to allow the import of Vietnamese mangoes into Australia from 2016, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Australia. That was good news for Vietnamese farmers as well as enterprises trading in fruit products, the office said. Now, the office has implemented market research and...
Australian trade officials are calling on food exporters to step up promotions in Vietnam to benefit from the growing market, reported Australian Associated Press (APP) on February 22. The news agency quoted Janelle Casey, Australia 's acting senior trade commissioner for Vietnam , as saying that a burgeoning middle class...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Australian Embassy in Vietnam co-organised a forum on food safety, a pressing issue in the country, on November 11 in Hanoi. Participants shared information about good approaches to ensure food safety and identified areas for future collaboration to support the...