Brunei Darussalam, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' rotating chair for this year, has struggled under the overly cheerful banner "We care, we prepare, we prosper."
South Korea has concluded a free trade agreement with the Philippines in a move expected to bolster ties with the Southeast Asian nation and help diversify South Korea’s trade portfolio, Seoul’s trade ministry said Tuesday.
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh attended the virtual ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2021 (ASEAN BIS) on October 25, saying that ASEAN is now in need of enterprises’ proactiveness and creativity to adapt to the new normal.
Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said on his Twitter account on October 26 that at the 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits, Malaysia affirmed its strong commitment to ratify the Agreement. Regional Comprehensive Partnership (RCEP) in 2021.
The Government has issued Decree 90/2021 on a special preferential import tariff to implement the Vietnam-Laos Trade Agreement from October 4, 2020 to October 4, 2023.
ASEAN has been pursuing an ambitious plan for regional economic integration for almost 15 years, ever since the publication of the first AEC Blueprint in November 2007. A key tenet of the ASEAN Economic Community is to make ASEAN a huge and dynamic single market and production base, through harmonising standards and removing, both tariffs and non-tariff barriers to intra-ASEAN trade.
The China-ASEAN relations are at a new starting point and will enter another exciting 30 years, said Chinese ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Deng Xijun.
Japan’s foreign minister called for the US to support stability in the Indo-Pacific region by joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), following China’s recent move to join the trade pact.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
