Active Responses

摘要

At the seminar on Vietnamese enterprises one year after WTO entry held by Ho Chi Minh City Economics Institute and Saigon Businessmen Newspaper on December 17, 2007, many state officials, economists, lawyers and businesspeople from production, trading and retail firms presented assessments, analyses and forecasts on the WTO effects on business operations. Dr Le Dang Doanh, senior economist, said 2007 was a banner year for foreign investment inflows to Vietnam. Foreign direct investment capital may reach US$ 17 billion. Financial investments were injected to asset management funds to purchase stocks. The stock market and export activities significantly expanded. Therefore, the position of Vietnam in the world market is promoted. Although it is difficult to differentiate the real impacts from the WTO, Vietnam-US bilateral trade agreement (BTA), AFTA or C-AFTA, the effects from the WTO membership, either direct or indirect, are inevitable.