With just over nine hours of direct flight per leg and two return flights per week, Vietjet''s new route offers unprecedented convenience between the coastal city of Nha Trang and Almaty, the largest economic hub of Kazakhstan.
The Vietnam-Eurasian Economic Union Free Trade Agreement signed on May
29 is expected to offer ample opportunities and tough challenges to
Vietnamese businesses.
The FTA between Viet Nam and the EEU was signed on May 29 in Kazakhstan. Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang spoke to the Vietnam News
Agency about the advantages, opportunities and challenges of this
agreement.
Viet Nam and Kazakhstan see potential for closer economic co-operation, participants agreed at a conference held at the Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences on March 12.
Viet Nam''s garments and textiles sector is exerting efforts to renovate
its production methods so it could maintain its status as a top world
garments producer.
The Viet Nam Pangasius Association has asked the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development to continue negotiating with the
Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to allow all Vietnamese
pangasius enterprises to export to their market.
Domestic steel manufacturers will not be on the brink of shutting down
when the free trade agreement (FTA) between Viet Nam and the Custom
Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan (VCUFTA) comes into effect later
this year.
The free trade agreement between Viet Nam and the Customs Union of
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan would boost trade ties especially with
Russia, a seminar heard in HCM City last Friday.
The Viet Nam Steel Association is proposing reasonable import tax rates
for iron and steel products amid concerns over the effects of a possible
mass inflow of imported steel from Russia.