Congressional Digest

Excerpt

(Excerpted From International Debates, December 2006)
After nearly 12 years of negotiations, in November 2006, Vietnam
was invited to become the 150th member of the World Trade Organization
(WTO). Membership in the WTO will give Vietnam the protection of the
multilateral system of trading rules in its relations with other WTO
members, including the United States. It will also enable Vietnam to
use the WTO dispute-settlement process to resolve its differences with
other members and to participate fully in negotiating the trade rules
of the future.
Accession to the WTO is the culmination of a
long struggle for this…