Ambassador Expresses Hope TPP Could Help Vietnam Shed NME Status

Hanoi's ambassador to the United States this week signaled hope that Vietnam could secure recognition through a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that it is a "market economy" for the purposes of U.S. trade remedy investigations, and shed its longstanding non-market economy (NME) status. "I think on the question of the market economy status, we can do it together. Vietnam has been doing it with other countries and I think about three dozen or something countries have recognized that," said Pham...