date:Jan 23, 2020
The Committee on International Trade backed the free trade and investment protection agreements between the EU and Vietnam on Tuesday.
The committee gave its consent to the free trade agreement by 29 votes, six votes against and five abstentions and recommends that EP Plenary should do the same. The agreement will remove virtually all tariffs between the two parties in ten years. It will protect emblematic European products, and allow Europe to access the Vietnamese public procurement market.