Although the US withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, ministers of 11 TPP members reached a consensus on a new deal and called it the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Vietnam expects to benefit from the new agreement once it takes effect.
Commerce and India Minister Suresh Prabhu has said India will call a meeting of some WTO members in February to muster support for food security and other issues.
Participating in the CPTPP would expand Canada’s existing network of trade and investment agreements, support efforts to diversify our trade, and allow Canadian businesses and workers to secure improved access to growing foreign markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
Officials, experts and entrepreneurs gathered at a workshop in Hanoi on December 15, discussing measures to help businesses capitalise on the ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreements (FTA).
Vietnam is an important economic partner of the Czech Republic and the country’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has selected the Southeast Asian nation as one of its 12 top priorities markets in Asia by 2020.
Digitalisation in retail banking is becoming a vital trend for Vietnam’s banking sector, not only to meet bank customers’ – especially young customers’ – needs, but also to help the nation achieve its goal of creating a cashless economy. Trang Nguyen reports.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh yesterday lauded proactive engagement and co-operation among all riparian countries at the third Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Mekong-Lancang Co-operation (MLC) held in China.
National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tòng Thị Phóng has asked concerned agencies to speed up preparations for the 26th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26).
According to the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), Việt Nam will have to cut 669 tariff lines to zero per cent in January 2018.
Vietnam has lost thousands of billions of dong in taxes as foreign enterprises, especially large-scale ones, refuse to pay based on the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement.
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