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.
The 24th APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting (SMEMM) and related meetings, which are scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City from September 10-15, is expected to enhance the competitiveness and creativity capacity of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the digital era.
EUROPEAN businesses maintain a positive outlook on Southeast Asia and expect to see their profits increase in the region, according to the third annual EU-Asean Business Sentiment Survey.
Celebrating the silver jubilee of the India-Asean relations, cultural and intellectual exchanges and people-to-people contact continue to be an important pillar for the member countries today
In a break from past trade pacts, India has agreed to provide future domestic policy concessions in investment and services sectors to RCEP members with a five-year gap
Despite challenges in the negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the 16 participating countries of the regional free trade deal are “optimistic to work at” the contentious issues particularly in trade in goods.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
