In a sign that India’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations could slow further, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has taken a strong stand that the country should restrain itself from concluding any such pact from which it would not gain in the medium term.
A bilateral meeting on the 31st Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) Summit in November between President Rodrigo Duterte and US President Donald Trump is set to happen as both have agreed “in principle” to hold one.
Indonesia and Chile have signed the Indonesia-Chile Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita announced on Wednesday.
Leaders from 10 member states of Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) met in the recently held India-ASEAN partnership summit to commemorate 25 glorious years of ASEAN-India relationship.
China Railway, the state-owned railway enterprise of China, will expand Cambodia’s railway system as part of the Trans-Asean Railway, a railroad connecting China with its Asean neighbours.
Indonesia always attaches importance to its cooperation with other ASEAN member countries and will work with them to boost the bloc’s development, said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.
Despite two high-profile stumbles on the Asian trade front at the end of 2017, the new year will likely see Canada keep pursuing both a free-trade deal with China and a seat at the now 11-strong Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11) headlined by Japan.
It’s been boom time for emerging markets in 2017, with strong gains in many developing countries around the world.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
