The digital economy is driving growth nowadays, and it is getting hard for business owners to do cross-border trading or access the global market if they do not embrace digital transformation, the 2017 APEC Online-to-Offline (O2O) Initiative Forum heard in HCM City on Sunday.
Hong Kong and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations announced Saturday the conclusion of negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement and a related Investment Agreement.
In the joint communiqué of the 50th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on 5 August 2017 in Manila, Philippines, the Foreign Ministers announced the acceptance of Turkey as a new Sectoral Dialogue Partner of ASEAN.
Reiterating the importance of concluding the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, economic ministers yesterday agreed to step up negotiations and break the stalemate to come up with realistic achievements that would stem the tide of trade protectionism by some of the world’s largest economies.
Trade ministers of 16 regional countries, including India and China, will meet in South Korea next month to discuss a regional mega free trade agreement (FTA), the Incheon Metropolitan City said Sunday.
Economic ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) began a four-day meeting here on Thursday to discuss ways on how to further strengthen economic ties and integrate trade and investment in the region.
More than 50 percent of European businesses surveyed for an annual study felt that the lack of a region-to-region free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) put “the Philippines at a disadvantage,” the 2017 EU-Asean Business Sentiment Survey reported yesterday.
Japan plans to work with Southeast Asian countries to boost productivity and modernize trade systems, hoping to encourage them to pursue more ambitious goals for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
