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RCEP

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

Indian resistance could spell trouble for RCEP
9-Jan-2018 Bangkok Post
India has been resisting pressure from other RCEP member nations to open up 90% of its traded goods to competition. This is due to the reason that the member nations are not ready to improve market access in services, one of India’s core strengths.
Free trade or women’s rights?
5-Jan-2018 Strategic Review
After 30 years of neoliberal globalization, it has been increasingly acknowledged that austerity, privatization, deregulation of finance, markets and corporations, and trade and investment liberalization have had a devastating and discriminatory impact on women.
Big Asean presence on R-Day will have ripple effect on mega trade pact talks
5-Jan-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine
It is highly probable that the Asean countries will use the official visit to gain some political mileage and push India towards steeper commitments on dismantling tariffs and improve market access commitments to RCEP members.
RCEP: India hardens stand ahead of summit with ASEAN
2-Jan-2018 The Hindu
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs has taken a strong stand that the country should restrain itself from concluding free trade agreement from which it would not gain in the medium term.
China makes strides in expanding FTA network
2-Jan-2018 Xinhua
In 2018, there will be negotiations on 10 new FTAs and a joint feasibility study of another 10 FTAs, says Chinese Ministry of Commerce official
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): India pushes for greater market access, ASEAN irked
6-Dec-2017 Financial Express
Time and again India has flagged its concerns on the slow pace of services trade.
Korea seeks to expand free trade networks
29-Nov-2017 Korea Herald
South Korea needs a balanced and sophisticated strategy to cope with efforts by China and Japan to take the lead in building a free trade framework for Asia and the Pacific amid the US’ strengthening protectionism, experts say.
TPP11 and RCEP compared: A side-by-side update
28-Nov-2017 Asian Trade Centre
Chart reflects the TPP11 changes and the expansion of the agenda in RCEP.
White paper not real on rules
24-Nov-2017 Policy Forum
The conflict between ‘rules-based’ and ‘US-centred’ in Australia’s new foreign policy road map
Civil society commits to push back corporate power at 2017 ACSC/APF
23-Nov-2017 APRN
The call “Southeast Asia is not for sale. We are not for sale!” echoed as hundreds marched to the historic People Power Monument along the Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue in Manila, Philippines.
Contentious issues still holding back RCEP mega trade deal
16-Nov-2017 Inquirer
Some countries behind the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership still haven’t seen eye to eye on some contentious issues even after 20 rounds of negotiations held within the year.
Preferring RCEP to TPP? S. Korean government putting RCEP before TPP
15-Nov-2017 Business Korea
The South Korean government is showing signs of putting the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership before the Trans-Pacific Partnership in free trade agreement strategy management.
Headway in services deal unlikely at RCEP summit
13-Nov-2017 Live Mint
Countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are against India’s push for liberalisation in services sectors.
RCEP trade agreement delayed till 2018
13-Nov-2017 Nikkei
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will not reach an agreement in 2017 while Japan signs deal with ASEAN covering services and investment.
CSOs take a stand against corporate agenda at ASEAN People’s Forum 2017
13-Nov-2017 APWLD
Civil society urges the ASEAN Member States to take people-centred approach.
11 nations agree in principle on TPP Pacific trade deal
9-Nov-2017 Nikkei
After months of negotiation, the remaining 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal have reached agreement on the trade pact in principle on the ministerial level.
ASEAN economic integration by whom? for whom?
9-Nov-2017 APRN
ASEAN member states must end policies, laws and institutional practices, including free trade and investment agreements that violate the people’s rights.
China vigilant about revival of TPP
6-Nov-2017 Japan News
China is becoming increasingly wary about negotiations over the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, which includes Japan but not the United States following the latter’s withdrawal.
Dalit women: we’re fighting RCEP
6-Nov-2017 bilaterals.org
Dalit people are the poorest people in India and would be among the most affected by RCEP.
The risks for ASEAN of new mega-agreements that promote the wrong model of e-commerce
30-Oct-2017 ERIA
Digital technology offers exciting new opportunities and advances for ASEAN member states, individually and as a region. The benefits have so far been captured by first movers, especially in the United States.