Meanwhile, Cambodia has poured 65 million USD into 19projects in Vietnam.
Vietnam is now the third largest trade partner of Cambodia.Two-way trade hikes 9.8 percent on average each year.
In 2018 alone, it surpassed 4.7 billion USD, up nearly 24percent year-on-year. Of the figure, 3.7 billion USD was Vietnam’s exports toCambodia.
According to the tax reduction roadmap under the ASEAN Tradein Goods Agreement (ATIGA), almost all exports-imports between Vietnam andCambodia are eligible to a 0-5 percent tariff.
The double taxation avoidance and tax evasion agreementbetween Vietnam and Cambodia, which took effect on February 20, will be appliedin the two nations in early 2020.-VNA