Southeast Asia faces rising US tariffs and pressure to limit Chinese links, prompting a search for stronger European trade ties. While Europe offers promising opportunities, ASEAN must navigate complex bilateral deals that may risk regional cohesion.
From strategic policy dialogues to breaking down red tape and reimagining ASEAN as a truly common market, a single message of simplify, harmonise, and open up to emerge so that regional enterprises can not only survive, but truly thrive in a smarter, more connected ASEAN.
Mr Hun Manet asks the stakeholders to diversify export items such as travel products, electronics, solar panels, bicycles among others.
The strengthening of ASEAN–China economic collaboration will lead to a changed Southeast Asian development pathway by 2025 that transforms the region into a complex network of supply chains and high-speed infrastructure along with established trade systems.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced American agricultural producers will have greater market access to Thailand and Vietnam and maintained access to Brazil.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal recently said getting into a free trade pact with competitors was silly.
Iran is keen to enhance its economic cooperation with Malaysia and other Asean countries.
Talk of a ‘Second China Shock’ jolting ASEAN misses bloc’s growing power and agency in shaping trade with Beijing.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
