WTO: Full commitment leads to intrnational support

Fri, 10/15/2004 - 16:25

As much as the Vietnamese have shown their desire for independence throughout their history, they understand the benefits of economic integration. World Trade Organization (WTO) membership has become one of Hanoi's key goals for 2005 and would be the crowning achievement of a year that also celebrates 30 years of unification and 10 years of normalized relations with the United States.

Trade leads way in U.S. relations

For the casual reader of the international pages of any newspaper, the U.S.-Vietnamese relationship may seem rocky at times. Vietnam is regularly at the receiving end of U.S. legislative action, be it resolutions on human rights or attempts to bar Vietnamese fish and shrimp from U.S. tables.

Foreign investment: prime location Vietnam

Fri, 10/15/2004 - 16:16

Vietnam is one of the investment success stories of the last decade, with a wide variety of industries locating facilities in one of the 76 industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ). Some investors produce for the domestic market, but many use Vietnam as a base for exports into the East Asian region or North America, especially since the implementation of the Bilateral Trade Agreement between Washington and Hanoi in 2001.

Vietnam Supports U.S. POW/MIA Mission

by Jerry D. Jennings
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
For Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Affairs

The U.S. government is committed to the fullest possible accounting of Americans who are missing in action from all conflicts. As the President's "point man" for this mission, I exercise policy control and oversight of a worldwide team of some 600 specialists who carry out that mission.

Remember the past, look to the future

Vietnam's Trade Minister Truong Dinh Tuyen visited Washington this summer to talk trade. His key message is that Vietnam remembers its past, but that the key is to look to the future.

Success based on economic integration, quality of growth

by Vu Khoan, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam

Since 1986, Vietnam has been pursuing a policy of economic openness (doi moi), promoting a multi-sector economy through the transformation of the centrally planned into a market system under state regulation, combining economic growth with social development, optimizing internal resources while taking advantage of international and regional integration.

The delicate nurturing of a unique relationship

by Ton Nu Thi Ninh, vice-chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly

A perspective from Congress

by Reps. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) and Lane Evans (D-Ill.)

The word "Vietnam" evokes different images and emotions from different people. Those of us who are Vietnam veterans remember the war, of course, while others may remember the anti-war movement of 40 years ago.

For many of us, however, the war is over. Vietnam is a country of 82 million people, two thirds of which were not even alive in 1975. It is time to move forward and recognize that the future of U.S.-Vietnamese relations lies in constructive approaches to our bilateral relations.

Textile-garment quota fees to US reduced

Wed, 10/13/2004 - 04:14

 
VietNamNet – Nineteen textile-garment categories exported to the US have their quota fees cut by 70%.

Part of a newly-issued decision of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the cost reduction will be applied to 19 categories exported to the US as of January 1, 2005.

The categories have been billed as ‘hot’ product in high demand, including men’s and women’s cotton jackets, men’s and women’s cotton knit shirt, and cotton blended shirt, cotton blend mini-skirt, cotton trousers, swimsuits, polyester knit shirts and trousers.

EU, Vietnam WTO entry pact result of hard work; observers

Wed, 10/13/2004 - 04:00

Vietnam and the European Union managed to reach an agreement paving the way for Vietnam’s entry to the WTO thanks to its negotiators’ hard work during five days of intense talks, said observers.

Negotiations between Vietnam and the European Union began Oct. 5 and were scheduled to wrap up late Oct. 8. From the first day, both sides’ negotiators spent days and nights at the headquarters of the Ministry of Trade in Hanoi hammering out a final agreement.

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