7-Dec-2016
The Jakarta Post
Amid the collapse of the United States-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact, trade officials from 10 Southeast Asian countries and six key partners started on Tuesday talks on a rival deal with new urgency.
7-Dec-2016
Forum Against FTAs
Why is the Indian government signing the RCEP agreement, which allows foreign investors to sue governments, threatens access to life-saving medicines and puts at risk seed sovereignty?
6-Dec-2016
The Jakarta Post
As trade negotiators from 16 countries gather in Indonesia to deliberate the terms of trade agreement — the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement (RCEP), access to low-cost generic medicines is under grave threat.
5-Dec-2016
Médecins Sans Frontières
International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), along with other health groups, reiterated concerns about harmful intellectual property provisions in the proposed agreement that would increase market monopolies for pharmaceutical corporations and delay or block access to affordable generic medicines.
1-Dec-2016
The Economic Times
The single-tier system of duty relaxation under the proposed mega trade deal RCEP will be the central issue under discussion at the next round of negotiations of 16 countries, including India and China, in Jakarta from December 5.
28-Nov-2016
Eurasia Review
While the dream of free trade was born in the prosperous West, it will be completed in the emerging East.
25-Nov-2016
Financial Express
As a major non-APEC member of the RCEP, India faces the prospect of integrating deeper with the Asia-Pacific if the RCEP expands into the FTAAP
21-Nov-2016
Press Trust of India
India pitches for simultaneous negotiations for liberalisation of trade in goods and services
12-Nov-2016
The Economic Times
India has managed to convince all other countries involved to negotiate the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) as one package