Customs cooperation plays a vital role in building, developing and maintaining the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) when ASEAN becomes a single market, a common production and distribution hub in the region, through facilitating trade, free circulation of goods to realize ASEAN's deep economic integration goals.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) identified significant opportunities to share research infrastructures among the ASEAN Member States and with the EU at the ASEAN Regional Research Infrastructure (RRI) Strategy Drafting Workshop on 28 and 29 May.
Australia — marking 50 years as ASEAN's first dialogue partner — held the ASEAN–Australia Special Summit in Melbourne in March 2024, taking a whole-of-nation approach to international policy. The summit facilitated discussions across various sectors and led to significant investment announcements that aim to boost both countries' economies, promote climate change action and foster relationships between emerging leaders.
There remains much untapped potential for trade and investment between Việt Nam and Malaysia, a meeting heard last Friday in HCM City.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong during his working visit to Singapore.
Australia and Indonesia have long had an uneasy relationship, over issues ranging from Timor-Leste’s independence to asylum seekers and bans on live cattle export to the aftermath of the Bali bombings.
OilPrice.com carries an article about Indonesia which has decided to postpone the start of a ban on its copper concentrate exports, Caliber.Az reprints the article.
The Coordinating Economic Affairs Ministry stated that Indonesia and the European Union agreed on 11 of the 21 issues in the 18th round of negotiations on the Indonesia-European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IEU-CEPA).
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
