Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement signed 13 July 2000 in Washington DC by PM Phan Van Khai's administration and Clinton administration; ratified by both and in effect 10 December 2001. Extended MFN status to Vietnam (cutting average US tariff on Vietnamese goods from 40% to 4%), opened Vietnamese market to US services and investment, required IPR protections, transparency commitments. Triggered textile/footwear export boom (textile exports to US rose from $50m (2001) to $2.7bn (2005)). Foundation for WTO accession 2007.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.