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RCEP & services


RCEP to seek tariff pact by year-end
Officials from 16 countries will try to wrap up negotiations by the end of 2016 on integration in trade, services and investment under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
India pitches for market access for professionals in RCEP
India has raised its pitch for greater market access for professionals in the proposed regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP)
RCEP - draft chapter on trade in services (Aug 2015)
As leaked on RCEP Legal
Why India is not joining trade in services agreement
Even though India has been insisting on negotiating services agreements in all ongoing bilateral trade agreements, including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, to tap its rapidly growing young skilled workforce, it has so far desisted from joining a plurilateral trade in services agreement (Tisa) being negotiated among 24 countries.