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Chicken war with US shows free trade threat to Vietnamese farmers
18-Aug-2015
Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the US for the loss of almost $14,000 this year.
Financial Times reports on Vietnam-EU free trade deal
17-Aug-2015 Vietnam+
EU negotiators fear China will use Vietnam as a backdoor for cheap textile imports into the EU
Tariff cuts, exemptions for Vietnam-EU FTA clarified
17-Aug-2015 Vietnamnet Bridge
The European Union (EU) will remove 85.6% of tariff lines for Vietnam’s goods exports immediately after a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the two sides comes into force.
In hurrying trade deal with Vietnam, the EU is bypassing its human rights obligations
10-Aug-2015 FIDH
FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights said that if finalised without conducting a human-rights impact assessment and without introducing the necessary human rights safeguards, the EU-Vietnam Free trade and investment agreement would be concluded in violation of EU law.
Livestock may struggle after TPP
7-Aug-2015 Vietnam Economic Times
Vietnam’s livestock sector, on which the livelihoods of nearly 10 million people depend, may be negatively affected the most after the Trans-Pacific Partnership comes into being
L’Afrique du Sud souhaite renforcer son commerce avec le Vietnam
5-Aug-2015 Le Courrier du Vietnam
Durant son séjour en Afrique du Sud, le vice-Premier ministre vietnamien Hoàng Trung Haile et le vice-président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa ont discuté du renforcement de leur coopération dans l’économie, le commerce et l’investissement
EU, Vietnam reach deal on free trade
4-Aug-2015 Reuters
The European Union and Vietnam reached an agreement in principle for a free trade agreement after two and a half years of negotiations
Cambodia may lose EU market share if EU-Vietnam bilateral FTA materializes, say exporters
27-Jul-2015 Oryza.com
If the EU-Vietnam trade deal goes through, Cambodia - which currently accounts for 22% of the EU’s rice iumports - will certaily lose market share.
EU farmers association reacts to likely duty-free rice imports from Vietnam under bilateral FTA
24-Jul-2015 Oryza.com
As negations between the European Union and Vietnam regarding the EU-Vietnam Bilateral Free Trade Agreement are in their final stages, the European association of EU farmers unions and cooperatives (Copa-Cogeca) has expressed concern about the future of the EU rice growing sector.
Indian firms advised to increase investment in Vietnam to leverage trade pacts
17-Jul-2015 Tuoi Tre News
Indian companies should set up shop in Vietnam in order to take advantage of Hanoi’s upcoming trade deals with Europe and the US, the government says.
’TPP can hurt India’
3-Jul-2015 Fibre2Fashion
Financial services company India Nivesh has warned that when the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes into effect, India would be negatively impacted to a major extent.
Vietnamese firms unenthusiastic about FTA with South Korea
26-Jun-2015 Thanh Nien News
While the government hopes the free trade agreement with South Korea will bring benefits to Vietnam, businesses fear it will bring them more losses than gains.
Vietnam signs FTA with EEU: What about Indonesia?
15-Jun-2015
In its quest for new markets and more opportunities, Vietnam — the rising star of ASEAN — signed a historic free trade agreement (FTA) with the newly established Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) on May 29 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
Plan mitigates FTA fallout
9-Jun-2015
The government has decided to earmark 1.7 trillion won ($1.53 billion) over the next 10 years to mitigate damage to local industries from free-trade agreements with China, Vietnam and New Zealand expected to take effect this year.
Gov’t submits bills on ratification of new FTAs with China, Vietnam, New Zealand
5-Jun-2015
The South Korean government said Friday that it has asked the parliament to ratify the country’s bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with China that was signed earlier in the week, apparently demonstrating its firm resolution to quickly implement what it has called one of the most significant trade deals it has ever signed.
FTAs demand trade rule awareness
3-Jun-2015
The need for businesses to learn the import and export regulations in different markets has only become more important as Viet Nam signs a slew of free trade agreements (FTAs), experts say.
Russian PM approves free trade zone deal between EEU, Vietnam
25-May-2015 Public Radio of Armenia
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved a free trade zone agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and Vietnam.
VN-South Korea FTA: A chance to develop firms
21-May-2015
The Viet Nam - South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed on May 5 is expected to bring positive effects to many of the countries’ economic fields.
Vietnamese exporters need to plan for FTA lawsuit liability
20-May-2015
New free trade agreements (FTA) will help Vietnamese companies improve access to markets and diminish costs, but they will also require strategies and policies to minimise the probability of trade lawsuits, speakers said at a seminar on global trade late last week in HCM City.
South Korea and Vietnam sign free trade agreement
6-May-2015 The Hankyoreh
The FTA with Vietnam is South Korea’s 15th to date, with greater levels of product liberalization than the previous FTA with the ASEAN countries (including Vietnam) that went into effect in June 2007.