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he current bilateral political, economic and cultural relations between Turkey and Thailand do not reflect the real potential between the two countries and reciprocal steps should be taken to increase cooperation, experts and officials said

China's tariff rate adjustment for Australian beef imports is essentially different from the World Trade Organization's stipulation of trade remedy measures in the general sense, the Ministry of Commerce has said in a statement.

The economic conflict between the U.S. and China has been jarring, no doubt – decades-old commercial relationships have been torn up, supply chains are getting upended, global growth is slowing, and investors and businesses are rattled.

The Lahad Datu palm oil industrial cluster (POIC) port in Lahad Datu earned its stripes as a facility capable of dealing in hazardous industrial chemicals after handling its first shipment of methanol recently.

The European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) and the Mercosur group of countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) concluded in substance a broad-based free trade agreement at the tenth round of negotiations from August 20 to 23, 2019.

Russia is ready to start negotiating with India to set up a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.

Malaysian palm oil futures fell more than 1% on Thursday, pressured by losses in related edible oils and concerns that top buyer India may increase import taxes.

Malaysia is going on the offensive to inform the European Union (EU) about their palm oil policy, and also prevent the EU from taking what is being portrayed as a “propensity towards protectionism”.

Malaysian palm oil futures charted their strongest daily gains in a week on Wednesday, pulling out of earlier range trading thanks to losses in the ringgit and a recovery in U.S. soyoil on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Oil prices rose nearly 2% on Wednesday after a larger-than-expected decline in U.S. crude stockpiles helped ease worries about weakening oil demand caused by the trade war between Washington and Beijing.

The agri-plays on the Singapore bourse have lost some sheen this eventful month, with the chief culprits being operational headwinds - weak commodity prices and Indonesia's dry spell - and less so the recent move by the European Union (EU) to hit Indonesia, the world's top palm oil producer, with biodiesel levies.

FGV Holdings Bhd will introduce an integrated farming blueprint this year as part of the plantation company’s strategy to make productive use of marginal land, group chief executive officer Datuk Haris Fadzilah Hassan said.