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Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

RCEP - draft IP text from ASEAN (Oct 2014)
4-Aug-2015 KEI
As published by KEI
RCEP - draft IP text from India (Oct 2014)
4-Aug-2015 KEI
As published by KEI
TPP failure could spell trouble for other trade talks
4-Aug-2015 The Japan News
The failure to reach a broad agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership could harm Japan’s efforts to create a “mega trade zone” through other major accords
Govt readies 3-tier offer for RCEP
30-Jul-2015 Business Standard
With next round of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) talks is scheduled to take place in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, on August 24-26, India government readied its strategy on goods trade.
Looming RCEP deal could help unlock conclusion of Trans-Pacific FTA
23-Jul-2015 Food Navigator
South Korea has joined 15 other countries in holding fresh talks on a regional free-trade agreement to be held in Myanmar next month, when it is hoped that a cross-Asia RCEP deal will make significant headway in unexpectedly quick time.
India might take two-tier approach in goods trade under RCEP
16-Jul-2015 Business Standard
India is offering 75-80 tariff lines for duty cuts to countries with which it already has an FTA (Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Korea) and only 40-50 to the others (Australia, NZ, China).
Pressure intensifies on India over software and pharma patent protection in key Asian trade negotiations
22-Jun-2015 IAM
Recently leaked documents show that India’s policies on software and pharmaceutical patents are firmly on the RCEP agenda.
ASEAN’s RCEP trade negotiations stall
17-Jun-2015 Tax News
The eight round of negotiations held on June 8-13 in Kyoto for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade treaty finished with little apparent progress being made towards an agreement on further tariff cuts, calling into question the end-2015 target for completing talks.
Negotiating in secret: economy faces RCEP dangers
17-Jun-2015 Business World
India’s RCEP engagement is a classic example of contradicting policies of the Modi government, G. Manicandan argues
Civil Society raises major concerns on India’s engagement with the massive RCEP trade deal
11-Jun-2015 Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)
As the eighth round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in Kyoto, Japan this week, farmer’s groups, trade unions, civil society and patient groups are urging the Indian Government to halt the negotiations, make the negotiating texts public and hold consultations with all the relevant stakeholders, in light of the potential negative impact this agreement could have on access to medicines, livelihood of farmers, quality public services and overall social and economic development of the country.
Meet RCEP, a trade agreement in Asia that’s even worse than TPP or ACTA
5-Jun-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
It’s been a big few weeks for leaked trade agreements. Just when we thought we had seen all the leaked text of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), Wikileaks went ahead and published some more yesterday. And on the same day, a leaked draft of the intellectual property chapter of yet another trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was leaked by Knowledge Ecology International (KEI).
RCEP - draft IP text from Japan (2014)
4-Jun-2015 KEI
as leaked by KEI on 10 Feb 2015
RCEP - draft IP text from Korea (Oct 2014)
4-Jun-2015 KEI
As leaked by KEI on 3 June 2015
Trade Ministers of 16 countries to meet in July to clinch RCEP
2-Jun-2015 Press Trust of India
Trade Ministers of 16 countries, including India, may meet in July in Kuala Lumpur to iron out issues related to the mega trade deal – Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement.
Why India is not joining trade in services agreement
28-May-2015 Live Mint
Even though India has been insisting on negotiating services agreements in all ongoing bilateral trade agreements, including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, to tap its rapidly growing young skilled workforce, it has so far desisted from joining a plurilateral trade in services agreement (Tisa) being negotiated among 24 countries.
LatAm states look to trade in bilateral deals for regional agreements
28-Mar-2015 Emerging Markets
Latin American countries are increasingly looking at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) as forming the foundation of a broader free trade area of Asia Pacific linking the 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
Asia-Pacific to strike deal by year-end
9-Mar-2015 Jakarta Post
Sixteen nations across the Asia-Pacific region expect to conclude talks that will free up trade and investment in a region that covers 28 percent of the world’s economy by the end of this year, say high-ranking officials from Indonesia and China.
Vietnam completes negotiations for 3 of 6 major free trade pacts
4-Mar-2015 Thanh Nien News
Vietnam says it has completed negotiations for FTAs with the Customs Union, the EU and South Korea, while remaining are the TPP, RCEP and EFTA.
Latest round of RCEP negotiations end with no clear breakthrough
20-Feb-2015 Yonhap News
The latest round of talks for a broad regional free trade pact involving Asian and Pacific countries, known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, ended with no clear sign of a major breakthrough.
DNP+ response to RCEP negotiations on Intellectual Property ongoing in Thailand
11-Feb-2015 DNP+
Japan is pushing for intellectual property rules in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that will undermine and delay access to affordable generic medecine in Asia.