Vietnam's Accession to the WTO: Strategies for Negotiations and Implementation
Process
August 2003
Hanoi, Vietnam
Sponsored by
New York Life International

Left to Right: Tran Quoc Khanh - Vietnam WTO Deputy Chief Negotiator,
Ministry of Trade; Hai Trinh - Vietnam Chief Representative, New York
Life; Cato Adrian - Counsellor, WTO Accessions Division; Virginia Foote
- President, U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council; Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan;
Gary Benanav - CEO, New York Life International; Vice Minister of Trade
- Luong Van Tu; Bob Porter - Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy; David
Hartridge - Attorney, White & Case Geneva;
Mike Samuels - Director, Samuels International Associates
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Important Materials
-- Keynote Speech by H.E. Vu Khoan,
Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
-- Presentations: (all in PowerPoint, except when noted)
- Comparison of Obligations in U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral
Trade Agreement with WTO Accession Requirements
by Demetrios J. Marantis - Chief Legal Advisor, U.S.-Vietnam
Trade Council, click here for English
version or Vietnamese
[pdf].
- Review and Status of Viet Nam's
WTO Accession Working Party Report and Market
Access by Cato Adrian - Counsellor, Accessions Division,
WTO
- Necessary Negotiations for
Accession - What is Negotiable, Non-Negotiable and Optional?
Case Studies on WTO Accessions Cambodia, Lithuania
and the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) by
Cato Adrian - Counsellor, Accessions Division, WTO
- Introduction to the General Agreement
on Trade and Services by David Hartrigde - Partner,
White & Case
- Scheduling GATs commitments
& Sectors of Interest to Vietnam by David Hartrigde
- Partner, White & Case
- Status of GATs Negotiations
by David Hartrigde - Partner, White & Case
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