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Vietnam joins TPP Ministerial Meeting in Singapore
  • | VOV | May 20, 2014 08:39 AM
A Vietnamese delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh, attended the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Ministerial Meeting, which opened in Singapore on May 19.

In total, 12 TPP member countries, including Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US, and Vietnam attended the event.


The agenda focused on issues related to market access to goods and services, intellectual property rights, investment, environment, state-owned enterprises, and financial services.

They concurred that TPP agreement will deliver economic benefits to all 12 member countries, which are home to more than 792 million people, and account for nearly 40% of the world’s GDP and one third of global trade value.

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