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Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Asia and the Pacific region.

In search of free trade in Asia
27-Feb-2013     ADB
Intra-Asian trade is rising and so is the number of Asia’s free-trade agreements. Join ADB trade experts Ramesh Subramaniam and Jayant Menon in a live discussion.
Uzbekistan might join CIS free trade zone in May 2013
29-Jan-2013    
Uzbekistan might join the free trade zone of the Commonwealth of Independent States by the end of May 2013, Director of the First Department of the CIS States of the Russian Foreign Ministry told reporters on 29 January before the start of ministerial consultations in the CIS Executive Committee, BelTA has learnt.
How to multilateralise Asian regionalism
10-Jan-2013     East Asia Forum
The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98 provided the impetus for the region to look to increased regional cooperation to reduce its vulnerability to future financial shocks.
Trade war in the Pacific: ASEAN and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
3-Dec-2012     The Conversation
Australian politicians are keen to project our participation in two major international trade talks – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – as unproblematic.
Push for huge free trade agreement by 2015
21-Nov-2012    
A new giant Asian free trade negotiation was launched last night at the end of the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, with a goal to complete the deal by the end of 2015.
Free trade to open up soon
16-Nov-2012    
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) of which Solomon Islands is a part of, is now ready to implement its Free Trade Agreement between at least three of its four members.
ASEAN+6 set to launch world's biggest free-trade market
23-Oct-2012     Asia One
ASEAN and six Asian leaders will this November announce the official establishment of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which will be the biggest free-trade market on the globe, offsetting the power of the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Linking Asia and Latin America Through Trade Agreements
8-Oct-2012     AIE Network
Our recent ADBI Working Paper assessed the scope and depth of the 20 Asia-Latin America FTAs using an inter-disciplinary approach blending concepts in international law with international economics.
Uzbekistan to join free trade zone by yearend
29-Sep-2012    
Uzbekistan will join a CIS free trade zone by the end of this year, CIS steering committee head Sergei Lebedev said on Friday at a CIS heads of government meeting in the Crimean city of Yalta.
Pan-Asian FTA possible
31-Aug-2012    
Sixteen nations home to roughly half the world's population have agreed "in principle" to create a free trade area spanning Asia, according to Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan.