Tran Viet Dung 

ssociate Professor, Dean of Int’l Law Faculty, HCMC University of Law

The WTO multilateral trading system encountered deadlocks at the Doha Round. In that context, Vietnam continues to pursue its integration policy by actively negotiating to participate in free trade areas with its important trading partners. Vietnam has signed 15 FTAs, including some major new generation FTAs such as EVFTA, CPTPP, EAEU-VNFTA, UKVNFTA with important counterparts in Europe and Asia-Pacific, which is viewed as the strategy to help Vietnam participate more deeply in the global supply chain. It should be noted that strategic trade agreements such as EVFTA and CPTPP have a wide range of commitments and the highest level of commitment of Vietnam ever. Specifically, in addition to regulations on traditional trade areas, these agreements also extend to "non-traditional" areas such as labour and the environment, posing many challenges to Vietnam in the effective implementation of its international commitments. This article aims to address those challenges from macro-governance perspective as well as analyze the methods, strategies dealing with them.

Keyword: EVFTA, CPTPP, post-WTO accession period, sustainable development