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Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

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.
Seventh round of RCEP trade negotiations to be held next week
5-Feb-2015 Yonhap
Negotiations for an Asian free trade agreement, known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), will be held in Thailand next week.
’Mega-regionals’ could be the future of global trade rules: Rajeev Kher
19-Jan-2015 ANI
India needs to prepare towards a higher regulatory regime as mega-regionals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) looks to set a new rules paradigm, said Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher on Friday.
Malaysia is hopeful of concluding RCEP negotiations In 2015
16-Jan-2015 Bernama
Malaysia is hopeful that negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) can be concluded by year-end, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said.
Regional agreements gaining steam
8-Jan-2015 Korea Herald
While bilateral free trade agreements, as a means to further the market-opening and rule-making agenda, have been globally picking up steam, there have also been parallel efforts to usher in a plethora of regional trade agreements and economic unions.
India delays economic cooperation deal talks
7-Jan-2015 Taipei Times
The Indian government has turned down Taiwan’s request to take a further step in advancing an economic cooperation agreement for the time being as it focuses on joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.
RCEP members fail to finalize talks template
8-Dec-2014 Live Mint
Members of the regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP) grouping were unable to agree a template for negotiations on a proposed mega regional trade agreement at the sixth round of talks held in Greater Noida near New Delhi last week.
People living with HIV rally in streets of Delhi as India hosts RCEP trade negotiations
3-Dec-2014 MSF
As the 6th round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in India, people living with HIV are rallying in the streets of New Delhi to warn that harmful intellectual property provisions - put forth by Japan - could severely restrict access to affordable medicines for people in developing countries.
Protests by farmers and trade unions against the mega FTA RCEP
2-Dec-2014
As negotiators from 16 nations meet in New Delhi for 5 day consultations on the Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP), farmers, trade unions, retailers groups, and civil society organisations protested outside the India Expo Mart in Greater Noida. RCEP is a complex North South Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that India is negotiating with the 10 member ASEAN block plus Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Indian farmers, trade unions slam RCEP free trade talks
1-Dec-2014 Business World
Activists say the RCEP free trade pact will damage Indian manufacturing, dairy and agriculture sectors
Farmers, trade unions and CSOs call to halt RCEP negotiations
1-Dec-2014 ICCFM
In the backdrop of 6th Round of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations scheduled to take place from 1-5 December 2014 in Greater Noida, India farmers’ organizations, trade unions and civil society organizations expressed serious concern over the very idea of free trade agreement (FTA), lack of transparency and the absence of socio economic impact assessments to asses the impact of the proposed FTA.
Japanese Minister urges Thai to support ASEAN + 6 FTA
22-Sep-2014 NNT
Japan wants Thailand to support the RCEP negotiations and proposes the resumption of the Japan–Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) due to the changing political situations in the two countries.
Médecins Sans Frontières warns about IP inclusion in Asian FTA
27-Aug-2014 IPWatch
The inclusion of intellectual property in the ongoing negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership between 16 countries, most of them Asian, is raising concerns about “TRIPS-plus” measures that could jeopardise generic drugs production in India, according to Médecins Sans Frontières.
War of the FTAs
20-Aug-2014 Business World
As an exhausted World Trade Organisation struggles, expect a war of FTAs as rich countries hit back with new trade regimes under TPP and TTIP while emerging markets build the RCEP
Civil society red-flags FTAs in letter to Commerce Minister
23-Jun-2014 Hindu Business Line
About 75 civil society organisations have written to India’s Commerce Minister Nirmala Seetharaman conveying their concern on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
RCEP negotiation in full swing amid challenges as region steps up integration
12-May-2014 Xinhua
The fifth round of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) talks is set to commence in June, barely two months after the last round, a sign that the efforts by 16 Asian countries to create the world’s biggest free trade area are gaining momentum.
Imperialism and the new free trade deals
23-Apr-2014 In defence of marxism
Far from being a means to open up the world to a further intensification of trade, TPP and TTIP will carve up the world into two or more power blocs waging economic war with one another.
FTA talks open in Malaysia
20-Jan-2014 Jiji Press
Officials from 16 economies in Asia and Oceania gathered in Kuala Lumpur on Monday to start a third round of negotiations on establishing a regional free trade agreement (RCEP).
Taiwan should learn from South Korea’s TPP strategy
20-Jan-2014 Want China TImes
Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, has recently turned aggressive in seeking to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks and could learn from Korea’s strategy.
Philippines: Businessmen prepare for free trade accords
5-Jan-2014 Manila Standard
The largest group of businessmen in the Philippines is preparing for new trade agreements that will enable the country to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.