…palm oil. Ong Ka Chuan has also expressed the need to “speed up the signing of the FTAs as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is progressing”, which is an agreement…

…Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA). As there have been growing signs from the US that Trump is looking to subvert the JCPOA, this is a…

…including cutting tariffs or simplifying customs procedures. European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström said in an interview with Reuters : “I do not regard President Trump as a gift maybe,…

…economy,” Trump said. Foxconn which manufacturers electronics for global companies including Apple, Tesla and BMW, recently shed 60,000 jobs and replaced them with robots. In 2012 the company hit international…

…sides committed to strengthen economic ties between the UK and the US, including a discussion about the possibility of laying the groundwork for a potential new trade agreement soon after…

…Mr Trump’s face”, according to Kavi Chongkittavorn, commentator for the Bangkok Post. ASEAN-EU relations mark their 40th year in 2017. Relations have been rocky due to conflicts over values and…

…EU has a total of 140 Delegations around the world. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said: “The European Union is delivering on a promise to open a fully-fledged delegation in…

…contrast to this, Pascal Lamy, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and former European Trade Commissioner, said that the negotiations for a new EU-UK trade regime will be…

US President Donald Trump has agreed that Iran is complying with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and therefore the lifting of oil and financial sanctions will continue. By…

…US with artificially cheap steel and undercutting local suppliers. From a political perspective, the growth numbers come at a time when China’s President Xi Jinping continues to position China as…

…reserves that enable a simple tax regime and low tax rate said Lam, but the tax system needs to be more competitive to ‘beat other economies’. New measures for tax…

…has been endowed with a substantial capital base which, in Fitch’s view, will support the projected rapid expansion in lending; exposure to risk will be mitigated by a comprehensive set…

…General of Competition. He was the Commission’s Spokesman and Director General of Press and Communication, Director General of Justice and Home Affairs, Director General of Internal Market and Services and…

…approval for the company, reports the BBC. Yet the airline, which is saddled with $US8 billion of debt and employs 27,000 staff, is unlikely to be attractive to investors, say…

…to foreign investors. Other beneficiaries of the Bond Connect platform include China Huaneng Group, China Three Gorges Corp., China United Network Communications Corp., Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd. and State…

…The agreement, which comes after months of negotiations between European and Japanese trade officials, was announced by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom after a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio…