If any country deserves accolades for bringing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to a successful conclusion, it is Japan. Japan was the primary force driving negotiations for the CPTPP (also known as the TPP-11) after the United States withdrew from the original Trans-Pacific Partnership a year earlier.
Close to 20 businesses from Vietnam and France gathered at a forum in Paris on February 26 to exchange know-how in organic agricultural production.
In early 2016, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement — involving twelve countries on the Pacific Ocean rim, including the USA — was signed in New Zealand. Right after his inauguration in January 2017, newly elected US President Donald Trump withdrew from the TPP, effectively killing the agreement as its terms require the participation of both the US and Japan.
The Currency Wars are over. Having tripled the monetary base as a per cent of GDP, the world’s major central banks are now winding up. No more quantitative easing. No more attempts to devalue the dollar, euro or yen.
From February 20, 2018, logistics businesses have to meet the business conditions outlined in Decree No.163/2017/ND-CP on logistics services, replacing Decree No.140/2007/ND-CP.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has become a buzzword in Vietnam, but locals rarely regard it as a technology that helps them make more money online and improve their daily lives. What many are most concerned about is that they could lose their jobs, as robots might be capable of handling the position they are in.
With Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - CPTPP (the former TPP without the US), Vietnam will miss many benefits it once expected to get because the country still doesn’t have an FTA with the US, while it has multilateral and bilateral FTAs with most CPTPP member countries.
Tran Tuan Anh, Minister of Industry and Trade talks to the newspaper Hai Quan (Customs) on how to make the best use of free-trade agreements that have been signed.
From 2010 to 2017, the pepper industry has achieved speedy growth in both area size and productivity. However, this speedy growth has revealed serious consequences. If these consequences had not been removed they might have broken the industry, caused unmarketability, and reduced the product’s prestige.
According to Decree 15/2018/ND-CP replacing Decree No. 38/2012/ND-CP guiding some articles of the Law on Food Safety promulgated by the Government and effective from 2nd February 2018, the management of food safety will have many changes for facilitating enterprises.
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