The Sub-Committee on Least Developed Countries, on January 20, agreed to start work on developing recommendations to “further strengthen, streamline and operationalize” current guidelines on the accession process of LDCs, as called for in a decision by the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference last month.
Vietnamese businesses should take advantage of the ASEAN - Australia - New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) to better exploit the New Zealand market, economists have said.
Officials and business representatives from 10 ASEAN member countries gathered in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Jan. 16 to discuss opportunities and challenges from free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as ways that ASEAN will benefit from the agreements.
Vietnamese FM Phạm Bình Minh has affirmed close coordination with Cambodia for the common success of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Phnom Penh on January 11.
“Southeast Asia – Feel the warmth” is the new ASEAN tourism slogan, which was ratified on Jan. 11 by ASEAN Ministers of Tourism at their meeting in Manado of North Sulawesi province, Indonesia .
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) will focus this year on non-tariff measures (NTMs) which are used by several countries to protect domestic producers, an issue consistently being raised by India in the multi-lateral trade meetings.
Canada, Mexico and the US's joint request was granted at the meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body, to extend, until March 23, 2012, the deadline for the adoption or appeal of the panel reports in the case regarding country of origin labelling (COOL) requirements.
Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will be invited to visit Taiwan in June for the 10th anniversary celebration of the country’s accession to the world regulatory body, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Monday.