With a favorable investment environment and open policies, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is becoming a “rendezvous” for Vietnamese businesses.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh’s Sept. 23 – 26 visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) demonstrates Vietnam’s strong commitment to advancing its independent and multilateral foreign policy while consolidating its Comprehensive Partnership with the UAE.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) continues to be an attractive destination for Vietnamese goods, yet exporters are being warned of increasingly sophisticated trade scams lurking beneath the surface.

Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son reaffirmed that Vietnam values the enhancement of its Comprehensive Partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during a meeting with UAE Minister of Investment Mohamed Alsuwaidi in Hanoi on February 8.

The newly signed Vietnam-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) has been widely welcomed by experts and businesses for its potential to deliver significant benefits across trade and various economic sectors. This article explores the CEPA’s key impacts and its implications for fostering broader cooperation between the Middle East and ASEAN.

Tuna products imported into the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are currently subject to a 5% tax rate. Therefore, businesses expect this market to expand further when the FTA between Vietnam and the UAE takes effect and reduces the import tax on seafood to 0%.

At the end of October, the Vietnam-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was signed, becoming the first free trade agreement that Vietnam has signed with an Arab country, an important premise for Vietnam to promote the export of key products to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including key agricultural products such as seafood, rice, vegetables, coffee, pepper, etc.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Hồng Diên highlighted the Việt Nam-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)'s significance, describing it as a breakthrough that will significantly enhance economic, trade, and investment cooperation between the two nations.

International press and UAE newspapers unanimously believe that the Vietnam - UAE CEPA Agreement will open up new economic cooperation paths that are beneficial to both countries.

The freshly-signed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Việt Nam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) opens up a new era of the bilateral relationship that has been upgraded to a comprehensive partnership and growing substantively.