US, Vietnam sign trade deal to put Hanoi in WTO - Yahoo! News

US, Vietnam sign trade deal to put Hanoi in WTO - Yahoo! News: "Wed May 31, 8:03 AM ET

HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - Former enemies Vietnam and the United States solidified peacetime ties by signing a new trade deal on Wednesday in the historic palace where communist tanks ended the war in 1975.
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Vietnamese and American trade officials signed the pact, which will open the Southeast Asian country's markets in virtually every sector, in the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.

It paves the way for one-party Vietnam to enter the
World Trade Organization this year, 11 years after it began applying."