To help businesses fully and accurately understand the core contents and supporting mechanisms in the implementation of the EVFTA by Government and related agencies, with the cooperation of FNF Viet Nam, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) organizes:

On September 18, 2020, the Government issued Decree No. 111 / ND-CP on Vietnam's Special Preferential Export and Import Tariffs to under the Free Trade Agreement between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the European Union in the period 2020 - 2022 implement commitments on opening the goods market in the EVFTA Agreement.

Vietnam is likely to be the second best performer of economic recovery in Asia-Pacific, said a report recently released by S&P Global Ratings which revised up GDP growths of regional countries this year in the light of reviving trade and consumption.

In recent months, the U.S. began negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement with Kenya. These negotiations are aligned with the current administration’s vision for trade reciprocity rather than unilateral trade preference programs.

Despite prolonged Covid-19 break, Thai enterprises have still maintained revenue growth of around 20 percent in Vietnam market because Thai commodities satisfy Vietnamese tastes.

WTO members considered two regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the meeting of the Committee on RTAs on 22 September. Members reviewed the trade in services aspect of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Armenia and the Free Trade Agreement between the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and Israel.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Malaysia and the Vietnam Malaysia Business Association (VMBIZ) on September 23 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on enhancing cooperation to boost trade and investment between the two countries’ businesses.

Vietnam, the world's biggest producer of robusta, has become the top supplier of coffee beans for Japan as the consumption of instant coffee, which uses robusta, is soaring there amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Nikkei Asia Review.

A group of WTO members agreed to establish an Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender on 23 September, marking the next phase of an initiative kickstarted in 2017 to increase the participation of women in trade. The online meeting to launch the new WTO working group was held at the invitation of Iceland and Botswana.

The National Assembly Standing Committee’s supervision delegation in charge of the implementation of free trade agreements (FTAs) to which Vietnam is a member held a working session with the Government, ministries and agencies in Hanoi on September 23.