Vietnam holds bilateral talks with Japan on WTO accession
(VNA): Vietnam held bilateral talks with Japan on March 11 to discuss market access to goods and services as part of its admission to the WTO.
Yasukata Fukahori, First Secretary and Head of the Japanese Embassy's Economic Department, said that the two sides will continue discussing tariff rates on goods and intellectual property and other issues relating to market access to banking, transportation, and goods distribution.
Vietnam and its partners hope to finish all negotiations so Vietnam can participate in the WTO admission ceremony during the WTO Trade Ministers' Conference in Hong Kong in December.
Vietnam began bilateral and multilateral negotiations to join the WTO in July 1998. Twenty-seven WTO members have proposed that Vietnam hold bilateral market access negotiations on goods and services. Of them, Vietnam has finished bilateral negotiations with Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, the European Union and Singapore./.
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