Impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on Vietnam’s foreign trade

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COVID-19 pandemic has been making significant changes to every aspect of human life. As a country of high trade openness, having extensive trade relations with many economic partners, Vietnam’s export and import are severely affected by the wave of the epidemic. Therefore, this paper focuses on analyzing the impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on Vietnam’s foreign trade, apart from that proposing some prospects and solutions for this branch to overcome this global pandemic.

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Thanh Lam Ha

Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Email: lamthanhha@dav.edu.vn
PhD (Economics), Senior Lecturer. ORCID: 0000-0002-2174-555X

Van Huyen Bui

Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics

Email: huyenqlkt@gmail.com
директор Институт экономики

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