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During three previous rounds of tariff increases, tea was excluded from the U.S. Trade Representative’s list of Chinese goods that are subject to import taxes of up to 25%. That ended May 10 with a request by the Trump administration to prepare to levy import...

Coffee production in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest grower of robusta beans favoured by instant drinks makers like Nestle SA, will probably climb to the largest in four years in 2019, boosting global supplies and potentially further reducing costs for...

Call it the coffee paradox. The brewed beverage has never been more popular, but the price of beans is at its lowest point in over a decade and down by a quarter since October....

The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA) announced in April 2019 in a memorandum of understanding (MOU), an agreement to act rather than a formal plan, between the main industry and policy organizations in five tea-growing countries: Indian Tea Association, China Tea...

Pork exported from Spain to Vietnam grew 53.7% year-on-year in 2018, according to new figures from trade body...

Japan's Mitsui & Co. has agreed on a $150 million deal to acquire a 35.1% equity interest in Minh Phu Seafood Joint Stock Company, it...

Japan was Vietnam’s second-largest shrimp import market during the first three months of 2019, accounting for $121.7 million worth of product, or 19.7% of Vietnam’s total shrimp exports during the period, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and...

A paradox seems to surge in Vietnam’s livestock sector when foreign companies have been pouring big bulks into the sector although serious diseases are spreading to livestock production hub in the south. Increasingly disposable income, rapid urbanization as...

Vietnam is one of world’s top pork consuming countries and stands second in Asia only to China. The hog industry has developed rapidly since the 1990s and is the key driver of the local feed industry. After the 2017 price crash crisis, only big players with...

China's top feed producer, New Hope Group, said on Thursday it is building three pig farms in neighbouring Vietnam, even as an incurable pig disease spreads through the Southeast Asian country. The farms, located in Thanh Hoa, Binh Phuoc, and Binh Dinh...