Businesses aim to introduce more Vietnamese products to Europe, competing with China and other nations.

Thanks to EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), Vietnam’s tuna exports to the EU in September skyrocketed to 11.9 million USD (up 13.3% inter-monthly), according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Stocks of French wine unsold due to the consequences of the Covid-19 virus lockdown are to be sent to distilleries to make hand sanitizer liquid in a scheme to make room for the produce of the 2020 grape harvest and which is funded by the EU.  

Global Risk Insights, a world-leading publication for political risk news and analysis, on May 29 ran an article analyzing the positive effects that the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement EUVFTA and the EU-Vietnam Investor Protection Agreement EUVIPA may offer to Vietnam. Global Risk Insights says that these agreements open a gateway to a USD 18 trillion market for Vietnam.