The chamber’s recent survey of about 1,000 businesses indicated that 78 per cent of them are aware of the TPP trade deal, up from 68 per cent in 2014.

The rising figures reflect that businesses are ready for the pact, at least in attitude, said director of the chamber’s WTO Centre Nguyn Thu Trang.

She referred to those as reasons to be optimistic about the success of the deal.

It is also reported that, by the end of last year, 70 per cent of domestic enterprises showed understanding of the pact – lower than 86 per cent of FDI companies from TPP member states and 82 per cent of those from TPP outsiders.

However, local firms expressed the strongest approval for the trade deal at 73 per cent, compared to 67 per cent of the FDI companies from TPP members and 65 per cent of those from outside the pact.

The TPP was concluded on October 5 of last year after seven years of negotiations among 12 countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.

It was signed on February 4 and is in the process of being ratified by each member state, which will take about two years.