16-Feb-2017
Business Mirror
Manila has asked Seoul to bring down to zero the tariff it slaps on Philippine pineapple exports to South Korea.
14-Feb-2017
Malaya Business Insight
The Philippines while chair of Asean this year, will push for the conclusion of an agreement on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to pave the way for a mega regional free trade agreement (FTA) next year.
13-Feb-2017
Manila Bulletin
The Philippines will push for the expansion and deepening of the ASEAN services agreement possibly over a 10-year transition period to allow the liberalization of more sectors.
12-Feb-2017
Nikkei Asian Review
RCEP is neither China-led nor a rival to the TPP
8-Feb-2017
Borneo Bulletin
A top European Union (EU) diplomat has hinted the possibility of reviving the Free Trade Agreement talks between the EU and Asean that were suspended almost a decade ago.
3-Feb-2017
Nikkei Asian Review
ASEAN should be driving force behind new RCEP megapact, says Japanese expert
17-Jan-2017
Malaya Business Insight
Bigger countries are potentially derailing the progress of this regional economic agreement being negotiated between the 10 Asean countries and their six FTA partners – Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
10-Jan-2017
The Jakarta Post
The current trade and business environment in East Asia and Pacific require a new set of rules to provide governance in the regional economic interdependence and to facilitate seamless international trade and business activities.
10-Jan-2017
Third World Network
Negotiations by 16 Asia-Pacific nations to establish the RCEP - the world’s largest trading bloc - have been proceeding since 2012. Surveying the negotiations, Biswajit Dhar argues that this ASEAN-led initiative can constitute the building block for a truly viable East Asian Community provided the parties break out from the straitjacket of trade liberalisation.
