List of countries/territories those have free trade agreements with Vietnam

Today, Vietnam has signed many free trade agreements, both bilateral and multilateral. Members of them often give each other special benefit on tariffs. 

A full knowledge of them will help you check whether your imported goods are entitled to special preferential import tax rates and if exporting to those countries, it is likely that you will be required to make certificates of origin according to the form of the agreement by your partners. In this article, we provide the list of countries that Vietnamese have signed free trade agreements and the government has a Decree on special preferential import tariffs to implement free trade agreements. Until December 2018, the list is as follows:

No.	Contry	FTA	Decree on the special preferential import tariffs
1	Brunei	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
2	Cambodia	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
3	Indonesia	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
4	Laos	Vietnam – Laos, ASEAN	124/2016/NĐ-CP, 156/2017/NĐ-CP
5	Malaysia	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
6	Myanmar	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
7	Philippines	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
8	Singapore	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
9	Thailand	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
10	Vietnam	ASEAN	156/2017/NĐ-CP
11	China	ASEAN – China	153/2017/NĐ-CP
12	Japan	Vietnam – Japan; ASEAN – Japan	155/2017/NĐ-CP, 160/2017/NĐ-CP
13	Korea	Vietnam – Korea; ASEAN – Korea	149/2017/NĐ-CP,  157/2017/NĐ-CP
14	Armenia	Vietnam – Eurasian Economic Union	150/2017/NĐ-CP
15	Belarus	Vietnam – Eurasian Economic Union	150/2017/NĐ-CP
16	Kazakhstan	Vietnam – Eurasian Economic Union	150/2017/NĐ-CP
17	Kyrgyzstan	Vietnam – Eurasian Economic Union	150/2017/NĐ-CP
18	Russian Federation	Vietnam – Eurasian Economic Union	150/2017/NĐ-CP
19	Chile	Vietnam – Chile	154/2017/NĐ-CP
20	Australia	ASEAN – Australia/New Zealand	158/2017/NĐ-CP
21	New Zealand	ASEAN – Australia/New Zealand	158/2017/NĐ-CP
22	India	ASEAN – India	159/2017/NĐ-CP

 

Countries and territories ​​that have been signed FTA but have not yet entered into force and decrees on tariffs include:  – Hong Kong and all the member of ASEAN in the ASEAN-Hong Kong – 10 countries: Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia in the CPTPP  which was signed on March 2018, the National Assembly of Vietnam ratified in Resolution No. 72/2018 / QH14 dated 12/11/2018). Thus, when two agreements (ASEAN-Hong Kong and CPTPP) are implemented, it will raise the number of countries and territories to 26 countries which have special preferential rates (in addition to those 22 countries, Hong Kong, Canada, Mexico and Peru).The list of free trade agreements Vietnam has signed until December 2018 is as follows: 

No.	FTA	Abbreviated name for special preferential tax rates	Form C/O	Decree on the special preferential import tariffs
1	Vietnam – Japan	VJEPA	JV	155/2017/NĐ-CP
2	Vietnam – Eurasian Economic Union	VN-EAEU FTA	EAV	150/2017/NĐ-CP
3	Vietnam – Korea	VKFTA	VK	149/2017/NĐ-CP
4	Vietnam – Chile	VCFTA	VC	154/2017/NĐ-CP
5	Vietnam – Laos		S	124/2016/NĐ-CP
6	CPTPP			Not yet
7	ASEAN – Australia/New Zealand	AANZFTA		158/2017/NĐ-CP
8	ASEAN – China	ACFTA	FORM E	153/2017/NĐ-CP
9	ASEAN – Japan	AJCEP	Form AJ/JA	160/2017/NĐ-CP
10	ASEAN – Hong Kong	AHKFTA		Not yet.
11	ASEAN – Korea	AKFTA	Form AK/KA	157/2017/NĐ-CP
12	ASEAN – India	AIFTA		159/2017/NĐ-CP
13	ASEAN – AEC	ATIGA	FORM D	156/2017/NĐ-CP

 

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