The Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean)-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is the most ambitious regional trade agreement to date, covering 30 per cent of both global trade and the world’s gross domestic product (GDP).
Myanmar is planning to promote trade with ASEAN countries and China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) by reducing tariffs, official media reported Thursday.
2017 marks a significant milestone in the development process of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as the bloc celebrates its 50th founding anniversary.
Indonesia and Chile are both confident about concluding a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) on time at the fifth round of negotiations in Chile, scheduled for this October.
Ask Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim whether his country sees itself as Asian or European, and his studied response is to point out that while the Turks came from Central Asia, and their culture is Asian, they combine all this with European values.
An ASEAN-wide work permit, redoing the currency basket of ASEAN states, giving national treatment to ASEAN investors, beefing up ASEAN-based security venues, getting ASEAN states to comply with its own agreements – these are a few of the challenges that ASEAN faces as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Experts from APEC member economies spoke about the need to invest in quality infrastructure at a workshop hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City.
Speaking at the Singapore-Turkey Business Forum Monday while on an official visit to Singapore, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım (L) said bilateral trade between the two countries has been continuously increasing over the last 10 years and will accelerate with the free trade agreement (FTA), signed in November 2015 that will take effect by October of this year.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
