Tag: Trade

Myanmar and Korea hold joint general trade working committee

Myanmar and the Republic of Korea (ROK) organized their 1st joint general trade working group committee meeting online last week reported state media. U Min Min, Director-General of the Trade Department of Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce, and Mr Chu

Read More

Thailand secures Myanmar border

Myanmar’s massive new wave of COVID-19 infections has put Thai health authorities on high alert. Although the new wave originated across the country in Rakhine State, Sophon Iamsirithavorn, director of Thailand’s Division of Communicable

Read More

Bilateral trade with Bangladesh rises by USD 727 million in current FY

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Myanmar is still registering surprising trade numbers. One of them is the surge in trade with its western neighbor Bangladesh. A statistical report by the Ministry of Commerce says the border trade between the

Read More

Myanmar-ASEAN trade hits USD 9.9 billion

Trade between Myanmar and other ASEAN nations has reached USD 9.9 billion this fiscal year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Ministry of Commerce data reported by Xinhua News, and briefly reported in our Highlights section last week. Since

Read More

Import/export online licensing big success

On April 1st this year, as the pandemic loomed and threatened Myanmar’s economic growth, the Trade Department under the Ministry of Commerce launched an online licencing system for export and import businesses to facilitate trade, reduce person

Read More

Myanmar’s trade with ASEAN members close to USD 10 billion this FY

Ministry of Commerce released the trade numbers for the first ten months of the current fiscal year (October 2019 – July 2020) and trade between Myanmar and its fellow ASEAN members reached USD 9.94 billion over the period. Myanmar registered a

Read More