Piyush Goyal noted, "One single act on 4th of November, 2019 in Bangkok is the reason that today we are discussing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write/speak on investment, trade, competition, R&D, sustainability. With the spate of news stories fawning over the signing of ...

Amid growing uncertainties which disturb the international trade order, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), focused on multilateral free trade, has emerged as a key driver of ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies signed what could become the world's largest free trade agreement on Sunday, covering nearly a third of the global population and about 30% of its ...

The parliamentary ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement by 10 signatory states has finally set the world's biggest ever free trade bloc into motion, albeit ...

BEIJING, June 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has not only become an "accelerator" and "stabilizer" for regional development but also brought ...

After eight years of back-and-forth negotiations, Asia’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership on Trade (RCEP), the world’s largest regional trade agreement, was signed in an online ceremony on ...

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh (R) attend the signing ceremony for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact at the ...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) entered into force in the Philippines on Friday, marking that the pact takes effective for all 15 members, a new stage of full implementation of ...

In the two years since the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement came into effect, a new regional cooperation architecture featuring shared dividends and common development has taken ...

As a free trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership covers not only the largest free trade area in the world but also is ASEAN-centered, development-oriented and inclusive.

One noteworthy facet of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is chapter 12, which contains RCEP’s rules on digital trade and e-commerce. These rules have fueled feelings of ...