SINGAPORE] Local manufacturing firms are not fully utilising Singapore’s extensive network of free trade agreements (FTAs), ...

US President Donald Trump's return to tariff diplomacy is on full display in Southeast Asia as he boasts of trade deals with ...

By bno - Taipei Office In 2025, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) remains a central pillar of regional ...

Trade between China and the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations , also known as Asean, has soared in recent years, to $192.5 billion in 2008, from $59.6 billion in ...

The initial framework agreement was signed on November 4, 2002 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, intended to establish a free trade area among the 11 nations by 2010. The free trade area came into effect ...

The ACFTA, launched in 2000, became one of the world’s largest free trade agreements by 2010, when Version 1.0 eliminated ...

The China-ASEAN free trade area will have a total population of 1.8 billion and a combined gross national product of US$2 trillion when completed in 2010.

The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) is a trade-bloc agreement that was signed among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 1992, supporting local manufacturing in all ASEAN countries.

Top diplomat says China, ASEAN pushing ahead with free trade area talks. By Reuters. July 13, 2023 5:32 AM UTC Updated July 13, 2023 Item 1 of 2 China's Director of the Office ...

Rate China charged on ASEAN goods would be cut to 0.1% from 9.8%; tariffs imposed on Chinese goods by ASEAN states will fall to 0.6% from 12.8%. Covering a market of 1.7 billion consumers, China and ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wants to integrate the economies of member states to make the region more attractive to investors amid competition from China and India.

By 2014, the bilateral trade volume rose up to US$480.4 billion, increasing 9 times during the 12 years with an annual growth of 20%. China and ASEAN sealed a deal to upgrade the existing FTA on ...