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Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

With no major trade deals signed in recent years, India turning an outlier
3-Mar-2020 The New Indian Express
The feeling now in global trade negotiating circles is that India is a recalcitrant partner, difficult to negotiate with.
Understanding India’s RCEP hesitation
3-Mar-2020 Fortune India
Pressure on India to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has continued, including most recently from Oceania.
New Zealand for bilateral trade pact with India if New Delhi does not join RCEP
27-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
New Zealand on Thursday said it will look forward to a bilateral trade agreement with India in case New Delhi does not join the China-backed mega trade deal RCEP.
NZ strongly encourages India to become participant of RCEP: Winston Peters
27-Feb-2020 Outlook India
New Zealand strongly encourages India to become a full participant in RCEP as its absence is neither in the economic nor the strategic interest of the region, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters said on Wednesday.
Australia willing to consider bilateral FTA with India on the lines of RCEP
25-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
Australian Trade Minister leads high-level delegation, holds talk with Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal.
Modi govt keen on trade pact with Australia as RCEP takes backseat
21-Feb-2020 The Print
New Delhi wants to resume negotiations on the long-pending Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement with Australia, talks for which stalled in 2015.
Simply Put: India and US — matters of trade
20-Feb-2020 The Indian Express
India’s existing and stalled bilateral FTAs started to receive attention from the government last year, even as the country worked to join the RCEP, the world’s “largest” regional trade pact.
Vietnam: Asean economic integration meeting in Hanoi a success
18-Feb-2020 The Star
Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Quốc Khánh talks to Vietnam News Agency about what went on at the recent meeting on Asean economic integration in Hanoi.
Australian Trade Minister to visit India this month; to push trade, investment ties
14-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
Australian Trade Minister will meet his Indian counterpart, likely to discuss RCEP and long-pending bilateral trade agreement.
South Korea to sign RCEP with or without India
13-Feb-2020 Auto Economic Times
South Korea will sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) pact with ASEAN countries, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand in November 2020, irrespective of India’s participation, claims a media report.
S. Korea eyes further economic cooperation with India
11-Feb-2020 Yonhap News Agency
Consider India as the key partner of the country’s New Southern policy, South Korea need to further beef up the economic cooperation.
Chengdu Trilateral Summit still to deliver
11-Feb-2020 East Asia Forum
The fact that China, Japan and South Korea (CJK) engaged in an agreed-upon trilateral summit framework, and bilateral dialogues on the sidelines, was no small achievement given heightened tensions between the three countries.
Resisting RCEP from the ground up: Indian movements show the way
10-Feb-2020 GRAIN
The six year long mobilisation led by farmers movements and trade unions have made it amply clear that rural India cannot be taken for a ride any more.
Important differences between the final RCEP electronic commerce chapter and the TPPA and lessons for e-commerce in the WTO
10-Feb-2020
The US Mexico Canada Agreement extended the TPPA’s digital trade rules to provide even more extensive guarantees the already-dominant technology corporations. The RCEP puts a break on those developments.
RCEP e-commerce chapter text (Feb 2020)
8-Feb-2020
Final text of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), presumably subject to technical legal review
India keen to keep future FTAs with RCEP nations less ambitious
5-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
Countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan are among the first ones with which India is ready to consider individual agreements to begin with.
India absent from RCEP special negotiating talks in Indonesia
4-Feb-2020 Kyodo News
India was absent from two days of talks on a sprawling Asia-Pacific free trade agreement in Indonesia that ended Tuesday, fueling speculation that it may withdraw from the negotiations.
Australia to intensify engagement, new envoy likely to be India-hand O’Farrell
30-Jan-2020 The Hindu
Australian High Commissioner Harinder Sidhu hope that India will seriously consider returning to the RCEP table.
ASEAN Secretariat invites India for RCEP meeting in February in Bali
22-Jan-2020 Deccan Herald
The ASEAN Secretariat has invited India to participate in a meeting called in Bali on February 3 and 4 on RCEP agreement to sort out concerns of New Delhi.
What does India’s RCEP withdrawal tell us? – Analysis
21-Jan-2020 Eurasia Review
Given the current ease and widespread access to information as well as the social media-facilitated civil mobilizations across the globe, political elites of the RCEP countries should be consistently mindful of such risk from the grassroot level.