Lao PDR Snapshot
Australia will continue to work closely with Laos through Asean and as a member of the Mekong sub-region to address regional health, Social and economic challenges exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Laos and Australia are working together to overcome the immense challenges posed by the pandemic and deliver a common vision of better quality of life for citizens, including through economic growth, health security and stability in the region, a message from Australian Embassy delivered to mark Australia Day state.
The plan rebuilds on existing development programmes that are aligned with Laos’ pandemic response. In addition, new programmes will broaden Australia’s support and provide greater flexibility to respond to the Lao government’s emerging priorities, a press release from the Australian Embassy state.
The plan builds on existing development programmes that are aligned with Laos’ addition, new programmers will broaden Australia’s support and provide greater flexibility to respond to the Lao government’s emerging priorities, a press release from the Australian Embassy stated.
Australia Day provides the opportunity to celebrate all that is positive about Australian and the Australian way of life. This includes the strong ties of friendship, cooperation and loyalty that have been deep root in Australian culture.
Source: Vientiane Times
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In the recently concluded First Trade Policy Review of the Lao PDR, in November 2019, the WTO member states commended the Lao PDR’s efforts to open its economy further to foreign trade and appreciated the overall changes by the Lao PDR to implement its WTO bound tariff ceiling level, which has made the import regime predictable to a certain extent, although the Lao government has continued to apply customs tariff higher than the bound tariff for certain commodity lines as pointed out by some of the member states during the review meeting. ... See MoreSee Less
Lao PDR Takes Progressive Measures to Promote Foreign Trade – VDB | LOI
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With Lao PDR acceding to the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) in 2013 and subsequently ratifying the Trade Facilitation Agreement (“TFA”), which came into force in February 2017, the Lao government has been busy formulating and enacting legislations to meets its WTO commitments and to improv... Congrats to our Member SS International, Mr. Viboon Sithimolada for signing a Technical Cooperation agreement with The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare to increase labour safety and minimise accidents at work. AustCham was really happy to participate to the event!
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