In 1992, members created the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) with the goals of creating a single market, increasing intra-ASEAN trade and investments, and attracting foreign investment. In 1996 ...

Knowing that the endeavor is an arduous task, involving not only the state actors who dominate the "Track 1 Diplomacy", ...

While ASEAN members will not be directly hit by the hikes, analysts said the United States slapping higher tariffs on Canada, ...

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Thursday said it had signed a day earlier the “Second Protocol to Amend the Agreement Establishing the Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area ...

is “actively working” with China to upgrade the Asean-China Free Trade Area pact, the bloc’s secretary general Kao Kim Hourn told a joint leadership event in China last week.

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien attended the online ASEAN Economic Ministers' special meeting on ...

A significant milestone for Asean and China’s trade relations was achieved in October last year with the substantial conclusion to the Asean-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) 3.0 negotiations, marking a ...

The ASEAN nations are also central to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, a free trade agreement that was signed in 2020, creating the largest trade bloc in history.

Asean has never been static. Since its foundation in 1967 via the Bangkok Declaration, our regional grouping has been through ...

MANILA — The Philippines, a founding member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), has agreed to amend two important free trade agreements to benefit investors, traders, and exporters.