VIETNAM MOVES TO DROP TARIFFS TO WELCOME EUROPEAN FABRICS AND YARN

DETAILS of the European Union’s (EU) trade agreement with Vietnam have been released that show how the deal could boost the outsourcing of clothing manufacture by EU brands in this key south-east Asian emerging industrial player. The full text of the agreement has now been released (on February 1), and attention will turn to the ratification process, which will happen in the European Parliament for the EU and the Vietnamese National Assembly. With Vietnam remaining, effectively, a one party-communist state, ratification can be assumed in the Association of ...


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