SINGAPORE: Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries, including China, signed the world’s largest trade agreement on Sunday, the Regional Integral Economic Association (RCEP), without India, in the hopes that it will help recover from the Covid-19 shocks. The RCEP was signed after eight years of negotiations at the conclusion of the annual summit …
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Association (RCEP), a mega trading bloc comprising 15 countries led by China and that came into existence on Sunday, said India would have to write expressing its “intention” to join the organization. to restart membership negotiations. In a statement released after the initialization ceremony among member …
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