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.

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.

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.

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.

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.