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On 1st February, Vietnam and EU published the most-near-final text of the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). Hereinafter is the content of EVFTA.

• Preamble and Chapter 1:  Objectives and General Definitions
• Chapter 2: National Treatment and Market Access for Goods

       - Annex 2-a: Annex on pharmaceutical products and medical devices

       - Annex 2-b: Annex on motor vehicles and motor vehicles’ parts

       - Annex 2-c: Reduction and/or elimination of customs duties

              + Annex 2-c-i: Tariff schedule of the EU

               + Annex 2-c-ii: Tariff schedule of Vietnam

       - Annex 2-d: Exports duties’ schedule of Vietnam

• Chapter 3: Trade remedies
• Chapter 4: Protocol concerning the definition of the concept of “originating products” and methods of administrative cooperation

       - Annex 4-a: List of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in order for the product manufactured to obtain originating status

• Chapter 5: Customs and Trade facilitation
• Chapter 6: Technical Barriers to Trade
• Chapter 7: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
• Chapter 8: Trade in Services, Investment and E-Commerce

       - Annex 8-a: Establishment - EU schedule of commitments

       - Annex 8-b: Mode 4 - EU schedule of commitments

       - Annex 8-c: Cross-Border Supply of Services – EU schedule of commitments

     - Annex 8-d: Cross border supply of services and establishment – Vietnam’s schedule of commitments

       - Annex 8-e: Mode 4 – Vietnam’s schedule of commitments

• Chapter 9: Government procurement

     - Annex 9-a: Annex on transitional measures for the implementation of the government procurement chapter

       - Annex 9-b: Government procurement – the EU’s market access offer

       - Annex 9-c: Government procurement – Vietnam’s market access offer

• Chapter 10: State Owned Enterprises, enterprises granted special rights or privileges and monopolies

       - Annex 10-a: Annex for Vietnam

• Chapter 11: Competition policy
• Chapter 12: Intellectual Property
• Chapter 13: Dispute settlement

       - Annex 13-a: Annex I Rules of procedure

       - Annex 13-b: Annex II Code of conduct for arbitrators and mediators

       - Annex 13-c: Annex III Mediation mechanism

• Chapter 14: Non-tariff barriers to trade and investment in renewable energy generation
• Chapter 15: Trade and Sustainable Development
• Chapter 16:Cooperation and Capacity building
• Chapter 17:Institutional, general and final provisions
• Chapter 18: Transparency
• Chapter 19:Specific measures concerning the management of preferential treatment
• Chapter 20:Protocol on mutual administrative assistance in customs matters
• Chapter 21: Budget clause on management of administrative errors

Source: http://vietnamnews.vn

Keywords: Full text, Vietnam - EU, Free Trade Agreement, EVFTA