Viet Nam in The Process of Service Trade Liberalization towards ASEAN Economic Community

Abstract

      Service trade liberalization is among crucial measures in ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) roadmap towards a common market and production base by 2015. Therefore, in recent years, the ASEAN members have put great effort to liberalize the service sector within the region. This paper analyzes Viet Nam's service commitments in ASEAN, clarifies its implementaion of these services commitments until now and draws out some implications to promote participation of Viet Nam in service trade towards AEC 2015.