Global supply chain model

According to Nguyen Duy Linh Thao, Chair of the Club of the Provincial Trade Promotion Center, the Mekong Delta rice output is about 24 million tonnes, accounting for 80 percent of the country’s rice output; fruit yields have reached about 4.3 million tonnes, accounting for 65 percent of the whole country’s output. In addition, aquatic output reached over four million tonnes, with key export products such as shrimp accounting for 60 percent and pangasius for 95 percent of the country’s total. … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta farmers urged to link up with global value chains

Volkswagen's biggest facility hit German carmaker Volkswagen told DW that the chip shortage had affected production at its plants in China, North America and Europe. The company is curbing production at its Wolfsburg plant — the world's largest single car-manufacturing complex — on several days in January. VW has also applied for short-time work for the affected employees working on two production lines of the Tiguan, Touran and Tarraco, it said in a statement. … [Read more...] about Computer chip shortage disrupts global car production

General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP) Truong Dinh Hoe said RCEP integrates certain FTAs ASEAN had signed. Therefore, once put into place, the trade deal will allow businesses to use a common certificate of origin (CO) instead of the current single certificate for each market.  … [Read more...] about RCEP: local enterprises stepping firmly forward

Accordingly, there are eight types of pork in the market stabilization program whose retail prices increased this time. Of which, the price of ham rose from VND145,000 to VND151,000 kg; that of pork shoulder from VND145,000 to VND158,000 per kg; that of pork loin chops from VND140,000 to VND153,000 per kg; that of pork shanks from VND129,000 to VND139,000 per kg; that of pork armpit from VND127,000 to VND137,000 per kg; that of pork shoulder and ham lean from VND175,000 to VND190,000 per kg; that of pork tail bone from VND103,000 to VND113,000 per kg; that of pork bones from VND77,000 to VND85,000 per kg. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 16

The Verge (which also spotted the above report) notes that the good news is that AMD is going to continue to sell its own RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT reference boards – rather than wind up production and leave it to third-party graphics card manufacturers to supply gamers with these high-end Big Navi GPUs (as would normally happen a while after launch). … [Read more...] about Nvidia RTX 3000 stock might not improve until May – and AMD’s GPU outlook isn’t great either