Vietnam's ratification of EVFTA makes international headlines


Vietnamese farmers transport harvested lychees to sell to domestic traders at a wholesale market in Luc Ngan district of Vietnam's Bac Giang province on Tuesday (June 9). Each year, Vietnam exports up to 100,000 tonnes of fresh lychees, earning more than US$30 million in the season which often last between mid May and end of June. - AFP

HANO (Bernama): Major newspapers of German and Austria ran articles on Monday highlighting the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA)’s ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) during its ongoing ninth session, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported on Tuesday (June 9).

Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) newspaper said Vietnamese NA deputies agreed to ratify the EVFTA - the most comprehensive agreement the EU has ever concluded with a developing country and the second between the bloc and a Southeast Asian nation.

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