Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam and Belarus have reached consensus on measures to remove bottlenecks for the joint venture MAZ Asia on manufacturing and assembling trucks and specific-use vehicles in the context of complicated development of COVID-19, under their amended protocol signed in Hanoi on December 3. The protocol was inked between Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and Belarusian Ambassador to Vietnam Vladimir Goshin. Both sides were unanimous to adjust the localisation rate to facilitate the joint venture’s manufacturing and assembling activities, making them on par with Vietnam’s automobile industry development strategy by 2025 with a vision to 2035. Besides, the amended protocol details regulations on product origin, and allocation process for tariff rate quotas. Following the free trade deal between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) clinched in 2015, the signing of the protocol in March 2016 created an important framework for … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Belarus cooperate to support production of motor vehicles
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14-day Covid-19 quarantine not needed in many cases: experts
Professor Michael Baker of the public health, faculty at the University of Otago, New Zealand, said preventing community transmission would continue to be a challenge for Vietnam, mainland China, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand, which are pursuing a strategy of balancing between Covid-19 prevention and maintaining economic activities. … [Read more...] about 14-day Covid-19 quarantine not needed in many cases: experts
