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.

The 26th ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM)’ Retreat has approved Vietnam’s 12 prioritized initiatives on economic cooperation in ASEAN during the ASEAN Chairman Year 2020.

The past 30 years of renewal sees Vietnam liberalizes and expands its domestic market while step by step integrating into the world economy. As a result, different types of markets in the economy have increasingly developed and improved.

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (widely known as TPP) is a multilateral free trade agreement formulated in the summer of 2005 by a group of small pacific countries including Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore.