On December 12, Vietnam notified the WTO that it had ratified its membership agreement, which previously had been approved by the WTO General Council on November 7. Vietnam will become the WTO’s 150th member state on January 11, 2007. For more details on the Vietnam accession and the membership agreement, see here: http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/a1_vietnam_e.htm