Commerce outlines plan for hearing on Vietnam market status review

Various U.S. industry and labor representatives are set to spar with Vietnamese government representatives and others backing Hanoi’s bid to jettison its non-market economy status during a public hearing next week, the Commerce Department announced on Tuesday. A filing on the organization of the hearing , set for May 8, states that the Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, represented by Steptoe LLP, will be joined by Samsung Electronics America, Inc., in support of reclassifying Vietnam as a market economy...