The FTA incorporates investment chapters that provide a range of protections for qualifying EU foreign investors and their investments of a nature usually found in bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.

Five out of six countries in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) have ratified the Vietnam–EAEU Free Trade Agreement, which will officially take effect this September.

Australia plans to start negotiating a free trade deal with Peru as part of a new Australian push to open Latin American markets for beef, wheat and wine exports.

On March 28th 2016, in Hanoi, Mr. Tran Quoc Khanh, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, Chief negotiator and Ms. Meirav Eilon Shahar – Ambassador of Israel in Hanoi presided the opening ceremony of the first negotiation session for free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and Israel.

A Vietnam-Korea FTA Support Center was inaugurated in HCMC last Friday (4thMarch 16) as one of two such facilities in Vietnam the Korean government had decided to form under the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA).

Viet Nam must improve the bidding legal framework to ensure consistence with commitments to the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement in government procurement, a conference heard.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai have officially announced the start of negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.

India and Australia are one amongst the few countries having commonality in their values interests and trade strategies. Compared with many other advanced economies, the near-term engagements between both the countries looks promising especially when both the countries are participating in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) process. Hence getting Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) signed by year end is top priorities for both the countries to federalise their economic relation which will generate more refined trade and investment flows.

HA NOI (VNS)— The agro, fishery and forestry export value, in the first eight months of 2015, fell by 4.8 per cent over the same period last year to US$19.31 billion. The figure includes $2.38 billion earned in August, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Thursday. During the first eight months of this year, the export value of farming products saw a year-on-year reduction of 7.7 per cent to $10.88 million, of which rice, rubber and coffee experienced the strongest falls in export value.

As trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries continue to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, China’s recent currency devaluation has sparked a debate over the inclusion of currency manipulation controls in global trade agreements. China is not currently part of the TPP, however, the agreement includes a mechanism for allowing other countries, including China, to join the agreement in the future.