BRUSSELS: The EU and Vietnam on Tuesday announced a free trade deal that would remove nearly all tariffs that Brussels called a “milestone” on the way to a region-wide agreement with Southeast Asia.
The EU said the agreement in principle followed two and a half years of “intense” negotiations between the 28-nation European and Vietnam, whose two-way trade has grown three-fold to 28 billion euros (more than $30bn) in the last 10 years. Read more
