| | 12/12/2011 | This study examines the role of business associations in international trade dispute settlement from the perspective of theory and practice to have recommendations to the Government |
| | 14/09/2011 | Meeting the urgent need to promote economic cooperation between Italy and Viet Nam, the Embassy of Viet Nam in Italy, with the support of the EU-Viet Nam MUTRRAP III Projject published the book “Doing business in Viet Nam” for Italian companies. In addition to introducing general information, business environment, the legal system of Viet Nam, this book devotes most important part to the introduction of typical business of Viet Nam in each specific area. Therefore, the book is a reliable source of updated information for Italian companies to find partners, start their trade and investment with Viet Nam |
| | 12/09/2011 | This publication is implemented by the Committee on International Trade Policies of WTO Center under VCCI’s program “Enterprises and International Trade Policies”, a sub component of EU – Vietnam MUTRAP III Project with the financial support of the European Union. |
| | 22/08/2011 | This book is to analyze and propose recommendations to improve the business climate and to solve difficulties and policy constraints faced by VBAs and their members. This book 2011 is also one important component in the project “Capacity Building on Trade Policy for Business Associations” under the project EU - Vietnam MUTRAP III, funded by the European Union and implemented by the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham). The project has also supported the establishment of the “European Trade Information Centre” in Ho Chi Minh City and implemented training workshops and seminars for the above nine VBAs who are EuroCham’s official partners. |
| | 04/08/2011 | The report seeks to put the Vietnamese status quo on telecommunications market development and regulatory framework into the context of international good practice, with a particular focus on the EU policy framework for electronic communication as a reference framework. |
| | 03/08/2011 | The report explains in plain language to a mixed target audience of government officials (policy makers) and private industry logistics company staffs and managers (providers) as well as logistics service users (clients) as to what is logistics and why logistics is important for the continual economic development in Viet Nam and ASEAN. |
| | 02/08/2011 | The introduction Part of the Report describes the current evolution of the Vietnamese market of consumption goods and the outlooks of the top retailers, for domestic and foreign companies as well.
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| | 01/08/2011 | Experts of the Project "Capacity Building on Trade Policy for Vietnamese Business Associations" - a project implemented by EuroCham under the framework of the EU-Viet Nam MUTRAP III Project have designed and developed a training course on soft skills on communication and funding proposal writing for professional staff and leaders of Vietnamese business associations. The detailed presentations on the knowledge and skills shared in this document and contents of the training course are available at www.eticvietnam.org. For the sake of simplicity and easy reference, this document on ly provides a quick guide on these two important skills for the purpose of reference by Vietnamese business associations. |
| | 01/08/2011 | To raise awareness of the public and business community on intellectual property, the practices of defeating counterfeit and IP-infringed products in Viet Nam, EU – Viet Nam MUTRAP III Project supported Market Control Department – Ministry of Industry and Trade to compile a handbook which introduces briefly current Vietnamese regulations on counterfeit products and Intellectual property, types of sanctions on production and trafficking of counterfeit and IP-infringed products as well as the roles and recommendations for the improvement of IPR enforcement in Viet Nam. |
| | 19/07/2011 | On 17 November 2010, the National Assembly passed the Law on Protection of consumer rights. This Law replaces the Ordinance on Consumer protection in 1999. |
| | 15/07/2011 | This handbook is a publication produced by EU-Viet Nam MUTRAP III Project in the press campaign to disseminate the Law on Protection of consumer rights organized from 22/6 to 30/6/2011. |
| | 14/06/2011 | The European Union is an important trade partner of Viet Nam, and it is one of the most attractive but competitive market. In order to help Vietnamese businesses to take advantage of the EU’s preferential treatments, the EU-Viet Nam MUTRAP III Project has supported the European Market Department - Ministry of Industry and Trade to translate the regulations on “Rules of origins” of the European Union, applicable from 1st January, 2011. |
| | 26/05/2011 | The report examines the economy-wide consequences of services trade liberalization in Viet Nam. This involves estimating the current barriers in the different services sectors in Viet Nam, and using quantitative modelling (incorporating Computable General Equilibrium, (CGE) model) of policy scenarios. The different scenarios are looked at include both multilateral and regional liberalization. |
| | 25/05/2011 | The report comprises of the following parts:
I. Introduction with an overview of the ongoing draft law on consumer protection
II. Present situation of VINASTAS complaint handling offices
III. Practical suggestions on how to improve the efficiency of VINASTAS offices
IV. Suggestions on how to improve the implementation of technical issues by the complaint handling offices
V. European experience on pharmaceuticals and milk and recommendations for VINASTAS
VI. Other case study from European experience
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| | 01/04/2011 | The report is based on discussions with the local PTF expert at the SSC, with securities companies, market practitioners and other market participants, as well as drawing on the experiences of ASEAN and other international securities markets and regulations and considering the international experience of bodies such as IOSCO, World Bank, ADB |
| | 30/03/2011 | The report aims to assist Vietnam to identify the impact and efficiency of several Free Trade Agreements – especially, ASEAN-Korea, ASEAN-India, ASEAN-Australia New Zealand and AFTA - through both ex-ante (before the event) and ex-post (after the event) of the main economic and social effects for Vietnam of these preferential trade agreements. The study also examines negotiated agreements with Japan and China and proposed agreements with the European Union, Turkey and Chile. An important by-product of the study is to draw out specific lessons for future trade negotiations. |
| | 30/03/2011 | The qualitative impact assessment provided in this report is prepared on the basis of a critical review of both the overall structure of the ACFTA and of the relevant agreements and instruments on which the ACFTA is based, according to the methodology described below and in light of the focus mandated under the TORs and agreed in the work-plan for Activity FTA-1. |
| | 30/03/2011 | This report evaluates the effects of the AKFTA on Vietnam by quanitative and qualitative means. Section A, lays out the setting for the AKFTA along with the details of the agreement and the implications of the current financial and economic crisis on Vietnam. Section B examines trade and investment flows into Vietnam consequent to signing of AKFTA. It also analyses the changes in tariffs as well as the effective rates of protection offered to Vietnamese products. Section C is a quantitative and predictive analysis of the effects of the AKFTA both in the short run and long run. The macroeconomic variables analysed here not just focus on trade, but also output, wages and employment. A Computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework is used for this analysis. However, given the limitations of a CGE framework, the results obtained are tallied with micro level information obtained from various reports on Vietnam. Finally section D draws up conclusions and some lessons learnt from the AKFTA. It also draws up some recommendations for future FTAs that Vietnam may negotiate. |
| | 30/03/2011 | This report aims to assess the impact of this FTA on Vietnamese economy and to identify specific measures needed to keep the economy of Vietnam on the path of a sustainable economic growth.
This study is divided in four main sections, as follows:
- Presentation of the EU-ASEAN trade relationships;
- Overview of the economy of Vietnam
- Quantitative analysis of FTA impact
- Conclusion and recommendations.
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| | 05/12/2010 | This study analyzes the benefits and risks on Vietnam economy, law and other aspects when joining the Vienne Convention on Contract on International Sales of Goods.
The study is carried out by the Committee on International Trade Policies of WTO Center under VCCI’s program “Enterprises and International Trade Policies”, a sub component of EU–Vietnam MUTRAP III Project with the financial support of the European Union |
| | 01/09/2010 | Competition Law is still a newly studied field in Viet Nam. Research results in this field are used mainly for developing Competition Law. Some universities include the Competition Law in the curriculum related to Business Law (Economic Law). However, there are still no official textbooks in this field. |
| | 05/08/2010 | This study report is implemented by the Committee on International Trade Policies under VCCI’s program “Enterprises and International Trade Policies”, a sub component of EU – Viet Nam MUTRAP III Project with the financial support of the EC |
| | 07/05/2010 | In the framework of activity COMP-3 of EU-Viet Nam MUTRAP III which focuses on “Upgrading Vietnamese consumer protection legislation”, international and local experts of the Project studied and prepared two technical reports on “Review, systematize current regulations on consumer protection” and “Recommendations on the Draft Law on Consumer Protection”. The Report consists two parts: Part 1: "Review, systematize current regulations on consumer protection and Part 2: "Recommendations on the Draft Law on Consumer Protection". |
| | 17/03/2010 | The technical report of activity SERV-2A “Supporting Ministry of Planning and Investment on Formulating the Draft Comprehensive Strategy for Services Sector Development to the year 2020 and a vision to 2025” is built on as supplement to the report of “General Framework for a National Strategy for the Services Sector in Viet Nam up to 2020” (GFSS) released in 2006, which was part of a larger three-year project funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on “Capacity Strengthening to Manage and Promote Trade in Services in Viet Nam in the Context of Integration” (or “Trade in Services” Project VIE/02/009). The authors of the report focus on complementing the GFSS and recommendations for the main directions for preparation of the CSSSD. |
| | 17/03/2010 | The report is focused on regulatory review of Viet Nam’s distribution services and recommendations for WTO compatible sector regulations such as policy making, law making and regulation, economic need test and licensing in general etc. |
| | 17/03/2010 | The present joint study of DMI experts gives an overview of the Doha Agenda negotiations starting from March 2007, which basically is coinciding Viet Nam’s WTO accession date (11 January 2007). The subjects covered include negotiations on agriculture, NAMA, trade in services, institutional and developmental issues, rules, trade facilitation and trade-related intellectual property. The individual studies present the state-of-play in the negotiations and underline the subjects which are of particular importance for Viet Nam. As the country is a very recently acceded member of the WTO, and as such it has a special status, the papers analyze the implications of that particular situation in each of the areas covered. |
| | 04/02/2010 | The WTO-5 technical report addresses the inconsistencies existing in three key pieces of legislation, namely the Commercial law, the Competition Law and the Trade Remedies Ordinances, in relation to Viet Nam’s international obligations. It also provides recommendations in order to improve the interface between these domestic laws and their implementing Decrees and the WTO rules and all other relevant international trade treaties. |
| | 25/12/2009 | The book aims to introduce to readers, especially Viet Nam enterprises about regulations, commitments reached by Viet Nam and Japan within the framework of VJEPA. The book opens important orientations for enterprises to take advantage and promote preferential of VJEPA, establishing better trade positions in a new environment. |
| | 20/11/2009 | The handbook presents concrete case studies showing the negative effects of anticompetitive practices as well as the benefits derived from the successful implementation of a proper competition policy in third countries. |
| | 25/10/2009 | The objective of the report is to study the underlying causes of Viet Nam’s large trade deficit, the contribution of the trade deficit to the development of the country’s balance of payment situation and to clarify the impact of WTO accession and other trade liberalization measures implemented in the last couple of years on the increasing trade deficit. The study overviews the BOP-related WTO provisions (Articles XII, XV and XVIII:B of GATT 1994) and considers the practices of the WTO Balanceof - Payments Committee. |
| | 23/10/2009 | Experts of Activity WTO-7 under the EU-Vietnam MUTRAP III had a survey on the EU’s TBT and SPS rules which concern exports of interest to Viet Nam, identification of the difficulties faced by Vietnamese exporters in complying with these requirements, analysis of the impacts of these measures on Viet Nam’s affected export sectors, examination of the contacts between the SPS and TBT Offices and exporters, and appropriate recommendations. |
| | 13/10/2009 | In order to propagate the Competition Law, project EU - Viet Nam MUTRAP III has compiled the set of brochures, with the cooperation of experts on Competition Laws. The set includes 7 parts, related to the most important contents of the Competition Law |
| | 03/06/2009 | This Handbook has been compiled and edited by negotiators from MOIT and relevant line ministries and agencies who had engaged directly into the negotiation process of the WTO accession provides case-studies based on the practical experiences of enterprises and investment licensing authorities in the lost of few years. The language is simple and it will help enterprises and authorities to fully understand the substance of Viet Nam's GATS schedule of commitments and its effects on practical terms. |