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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He returned to Vietnam from Japan on November 14 and was quarantined for four days at a facility managed by his employer in HCMC. After he twice tested negative for the coronavirus, he was let go but told to isolate himself at home. Flight crews are allowed short-term quarantines to ensure staff availability. … [Read more...] about 14-day Covid-19 quarantine not needed in many cases: experts
