An Assessment of the Potential Economic Impacts of RCEP on Vietnam Automobile Sector

This research aims at examining impacts of ASEAN 6 trade agreements on automobile industry in Vietnam. Vietnam automobile industry competes with Thailand, Indonesia and those ASEAN countries as well as China, Korea, Japan and those assigned with ASEAN agreement. By 2018, the automobile import tariff from China, Korea and Japan will reduced to 5%. In the context of multiple trade agreements, the study of automobile industry has recently become an interesting topic, especially for the policy debate.