Vietnam’s Year of Free Trade

... will Vietnam’s free trade agreement with the EU impact the country’s economy and politics On December 2, 2015 the European Union and Vietnam signed a joint statement officially concluding negotiations over the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). For Vietnam, this document will be a sound ending to a Free Trade Year of sorts: in 2015, similar agreements were signed with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and South Korea not to mention the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Observers are disputing the potential benefits of this binge signing of free trade agreements, but there is little doubt that this strategy is a product certain economic ...