This article looks at the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), recently ratified by the EU Parliament, from the angle of transparency. Reviewing the road from WTO’s limited use of measures to improve transparency and reduce bribery in international trade to new generation FTAs, the paper examines headways made in mainstreaming transparency in practically all chapters of the trade agreement.

Vietnam contributed responsibly to the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Week in Papua New Guinea from November 12-18, said Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

The Asia-Pacific, and in particular the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, has remained a focus of Vietnam’s foreign policy, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said at the 30th Ministerial Meeting in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on November 15.

With around USD 184 billion disbursed over the past 30 years since the enactment of the Law on Investment in 1987, the inflow of foreign direct investment has significantly contributed to the country’s total social investment capital.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Agreement will be a vital deal to expanding free trade and ensuring sustainable development in Vietnam, said Minister of Industry and Trade (MOIT) Tran Tuan Anh.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Agreement would be a vital deal in utilizing free trade and ensuring sustainable development in Vietnam, said Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh.

Over the past 20 years, Viet Nam has step by step established and expanded its import and export markets and trade partners in the direction of diversifying and multilateralizing foreign trade ties. By now the country has trade relations with more than 200 countries and territories, and boasts a high trade-openness index (total trade accounting for more than 170% of GDP).

In Vietnam-US bilateral trade, Vietnamese exports of frozen Basa/Tra fish fillets have all along been a controversial issue. This article focuses on a particular element of tariff barrier, specifically on a very important methodological aspect in the ongoing anti-dumping review proceedings covering Vietnamese fish fillets exports.

Over the past twenty-one years, Vietnam has actively and proactively participated in the ASEAN economic integration and, together with other ASEAN member countries, in laying down important foundations for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) to be officially founded on December 31, 2015.

On March 29, 2016, the US Department of Commerce published the final results of the 11^th administrative review of the anti-dumping duty orders on frozen basa/tra fillets from Vietnam.