Indonesian Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan and Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal met in New Delhi on March 14 to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral collaboration in various sectors, including information technology, health, textiles, furniture, education, and human resources.
Indonesia is open to negotiating a trade agreement that focuses on the interests of its own as well as India.
ASEAN and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have reaffirmed commitment to further advancing their partnership and enhancing cooperation, at the 10th ASEAN-RoK Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) meeting.
The EU and Thailand announced the relaunch of negotiations for an ambitious, modern and balanced free trade agreement (FTA).
ASEAN has sufficient resources to become a centre of world economic growth with a GDP reaching USD 3.36 trillion in 2021 and a population of 650 million people, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said on March 15.
Only 11% of Malaysian manufacturers are utilising both the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) agreements, according to a recent survey of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM).
Cambodia and the United Arab Emirates yesterday announced the conclusion of talks on their Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) after three rounds of successful negotiations that started last December.
The US remained the biggest market for Cambodia with a share of 34.4 percent even though the Kingdom’s exports to the country decreased by 20.2 percent to reach $1.12 billion in the first two months of the year compared to the same period in 2022, showed the latest trade data of the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE).