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Japan-Vietnam

The Japanese government started negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement ("economic partnership agreement") with Vietnam in January 2007. As of September 2008, nine negotiating rounds had been held. The agreement was finally signed on 25 December 2008 and took effect in October 2009. Under this agreement, (as for the deals with Philippines and Indonesia), a limited number of Vietnamese nurses and healthcare workers who pass a Japanese language testwill be allowed to work in Japan, with the first workers expected to arrive in 2014.

last update: May 2012
Photo: Jack Young / Unsplash

VN, Japan continue partnership talks
| 19-Jan-2010
Viet Nam and Japan have affirmed their determination to implement the Viet Nam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA).
: Japan , Vietnam
Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement comes into effect
| 4-Oct-2009
The Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA) has come into official effect on October 1, thus import duty rates will be cut in accordance with the agreed roadmap.
: Japan , Vietnam
Vietnam ratifies FTA with Japan
Fibre to Fashion | 22-Apr-2009
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified a comprehensive free-trade agreement with Japan. It will take effect in July this year.
: Japan , Vietnam
Vietnam has plenty of opportunity to boost seafood exports to Japan
QDND | 19-Feb-2009
Japan is intensifying the import of tuna and various kinds of fish from Vietnam. Since other aquiculture export markets are drying up, many Vietnamese businesses are shifting the focus onto Japan.
: fisheries | fisherfolk , Japan , Vietnam
Japan, Vietnam sign free trade pact
AFP | 25-Dec-2008
Japan and Vietnam signed an economic partnership pact Thursday with a promise to cut tariffs on some 92 percent of goods and services traded between the two nations within a decade.
: Japan , Vietnam
Japan to help Vietnam strengthen car, electronic parts industries
Vietnam Business News | 21-Dec-2008
According to JETRO, Japan will boost support to Vietnam next year, once the two governments sign an FTA, for the benefit of both Vietnamese and Japanese corporations
: automobiles , corporate interests , Japan , Vietnam