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The aviation industry is under the principal jurisdiction and management of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV), a government agency reporting to the MOT.613 Its functions include: formulating plans and programmes to develop civil aviation; drafting legal normative documents, regulations, and standards relating to civil aviation; information dissemination and education on aviation law; aviation safety and security; airport, aircraft, and flight management; environmental protection; search and rescue; flood prevention; ratifying air fares proposed by airlines operating in Viet Nam; research and development; handling complaints and/or violations of aviation law; administrative reform; and financial and personnel affairs.

The policy to attract foreign direct investment has been proactively focused on four specific areas, namely services, advanced manufacturing, life sciences and clean technologies. 

In 2010 Costa Rica began a process of rapprochement with the OECD and that process has gained momentum over the past year, paving the way for the country to be considered as a candidate for the start of the process of accession to the Organization. Costa Rica accordingly requested admission to various committees and working groups and adhered to the Declaration on Green Growth and the Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making.

The CAFTA-DR entered into force in Costa Rica in January 2009. It was signed by the Parties in August 2004. During the period under review, Costa Rica promulgated or amended various laws and regulations to implement its commitments under CAFTA-DR in relation to intellectual property, the opening up of the insurance and telecommunications markets, protection of representatives of foreign businesses, corruption and illicit enrichment, and labour and environmental matters.

CAFTA-DR contains rules on government procurement and commitments to open the market to participation by foreign businesses above certain thresholds. The provisions on the environment commit the Parties to ensuring that their laws and policies provide for high levels of environmental protection. 

The FTA contains provisions on trade in services, and commitments in that regard are scheduled on the basis of a positive list. As noted in the WTO factual presentation, Costa Rica's sector-specific commitments are broader and deeper than those contained in its GATS schedule. For instance, distribution,environmental , recreational, cultural and sporting services, and transport services, for which Costa Rica did not assume any commitments under the GATS, are partially liberalized under the agreement with China

The import permits applied to certain products, relate mostly to the protection of health, public security, and the environment.

Costa Rica does not have any trade-related import licences, although permits or authorization are required to import certain goods, mostly relating to protection of health and public security and the environment.

As mentioned in the previous report, Costa Rica abolished import licensing for trade purposes in 1994 when the Law on implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreements came into force. Requirements have to be met, however, for the import of certain goods, for example, permits or authorizations which, in practice, are tantamount to licences. For most of these, the requirements relate to sanitary and phytosanitary protection (section 3.2.8), protection of the environment and species; public health and public security measures.

Costa Rica bans the import of a limited number of products for reasons of security and protection of public health and the environment.