17-Oct-2016
Business Desk
Prime Minister John Key will lead a trade delegation to India next week, saying the pursuit of a trade agreement with the highly protected agricultural giant is "the primary reason we’re going" but playing down the likelihood of early progress
17-Oct-2016
The Jakarta Post
An activist group is calling on the government to not ratify the ASEAN Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) clause on International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) 1991, saying that it will increase global corporations’ monopolistic control over small farmers.
5-Oct-2016
Financial Express
The Myanmar government is seeking parliament approval to ratify the protocol to the Asean Charter on Dispute Settlement Mechanisms
5-Aug-2016
New Straits Time
Non-tariff barriers – regarded as the main stumbling block in the shaping of the Asean Economic Community – have been progressively reduced.
21-Jul-2016
Myanmar Times
An industrial policy to bring Myanmar into the 21st century will be presented to parliament, with the aim of updating the law to equip the country to better compete in the ASEAN Economic Community.
24-Jun-2016
Business Standard
Beijing is demanding greater tariff reduction
1-Jun-2016
ASEAN Briefing
The establishment of the AEC will almost certainly make IP protection even more, rather than less of an issue for foreign businesses.
1-Jun-2016
Channel News Asia
Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang outlines efforts that the economic grouping will focus on going forward, to implement outstanding measures and to deepen cross border relations.
24-May-2016
Malaysian Digest
Southeast Asia nations reached a consensus to seriously look into establishing a free trade deal with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), of which Russia is a party to.
10-May-2016
Business Vancouver
The economic gap between high flyers like Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and laggards like Laos and Myanmar is too wide to be easily bridged.
