This is the target of National Steering Committee on ASEAN Single Window, National Single Window and Trade Facilitation that was set in the third meeting of the Committee.
A confident, rules-based environment for international trade has made possible the remarkable improvements in East Asian living standards over the past 50 years. This environment — created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor in the World Trade Organization (WTO) — remains essential for the future. But its survival cannot be taken for granted.
The apathy of the US president towards international trade (or more particularly imports to the US market) and his overall USA first and anti-globalisation rhetoric is well discussed.
Global trade in goods will continue growing above trend during the second quarter, the World Trade Organization’s quarterly outlook indicator showed on Monday.
Auto workers and manufacturers are rejecting assertions by Canada’s trade minister that the country won major access for them into the highly protected Japanese market in the recently rebooted Trans-Pacific Partnership.
In January, Toshimitsu Motegi, the minister in charge of economic revitalization, announced that an agreement had been reached on the TPP 11, absent the United States, and that it was set to be signed this March. Several days later, U.S. President Donald Trump attracted attention for remarks hinting at Washington returning to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
On February 8, 2018, Indonesian English newspaper the Jakarta Post published the article "China, ASEAN enter a new era hand in hand" written by H.E. Mr. Huang Xilian, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN. The full text is as follows:
The 11 parties to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement who remained following the withdrawal of the United States have set March 8th in Chile as the date for signing the successor to that agreement, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“CPTPP”)
Vietnamese enterprises should actively apply the latest forms of automation and data exchange, known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Revolutions 4.0), for production and business as well as corporate governance.
The 2018 Spring Fair, introducing Vietnamese agricultural products, opened at the Vietnam Agriculture Promotion and Exhibition Centre at No.489 Hoang Quoc Viet Street, Hanoi, on February 6.
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