Vietnam’s Year of Free Trade

... is little doubt that this strategy is a product certain economic and political logic. European officials call the concluded EVFTA unprecedented in scope and scale for a developing country. Tariff barriers will be reduced or lifted for 99 percent of ... ... of the free-trade agreement conditional on the political behavior of the Vietnamese leadership to the point of suspending the FTA. In terms of scope, the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement is similar to the one with the EEU. The TPP Agreement is also widely ...