Vietnam and the European Union (EU) have basically concluded negotiations on the bilateral free trade agreement (EVFTA), announced Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang on August 4.
Vietnam completed bilateral negotiations with its partners joining negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in the framework of their recent meeting in Hawaii, the US.
Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries and China have agreed to advance negotiations for a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) to a new period.
Sixteen Asia-Pacific nations started a new round of negotiations for
the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia on July 13 to eliminate import duties.
The eighth round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive
Economic Partnership (RCEP) between 16 Asia-Pacific countries was
started in Kyoto on June to narrow differences in order to reach a broad
agreement by the end of the year.
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