Following the productive Intersessional RCEP Ministerial meetings and ahead of the Third RCEP Ministerial meeting (24 August, Malaysia), officials focused on the guidelines for initial market access offers for goods. Officials commenced market access negotiations on services, with all countries having submitted their initial services offers. Fourteen countries have submitted investment reservation lists.

Overview The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a FTA negotiation that has been developed among 16 countries: the 10 members of ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam) and the six countries with which ASEAN has existing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) – Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand. In relation to RCEP these six non-ASEAN countries are known as the ASEAN Free Trade Partners (AFPs).

Sixteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region have started the 8th round of discussions on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in Kyoto on Monday.

SEJONG, Feb. 5 (Yonhap) — A fresh round of negotiations for a regional free trade agreement, known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), will be held in Thailand next week, the Seoul government said Thursday. South Korea will take part in the seventh round of RCEP negotiations in Bangkok from Monday through Friday, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

Days after a historic deal was struck at World Trade Organization to ease global trade rules... Days after a historic deal was struck at World Trade Organization to ease global trade rules, officials of 16 countries including India and China — with a combined GDP of around $17 trillion and accounting for 40% of global trade — will converge in the national capital to take forward their discussions on a mega-regional free trade agreement (FTA).

The 5th RCEP negotiation round between ASEAN and its 6 partners (India, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and China) was conducted from June 21 to 27, 2014 in Singapore. Negotiation was conducted in trade in goods (custom, rule of origin, custom formalities and trade facilitation, SPS), standard, and TBT harmonizing, trade in service, investment, intellectual property, competition, dispute settlement and economic – technical cooperation.

On April 4, the fourth round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "RCEP") came to a close successfully in Nanning, Guangxi.

At the third round of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Negotiations, the 16 participating countries pursued an intensive exchange of views to advance the negotiations in order to meet the target of concluding the negotiations by the end of 2015. Participating countries continued technical work on trade in goods, trade in services, and investment:

Australia has taken another step towards closer economic integration with the region, hosting the second round of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade negotiations in Brisbane.    Delegations from the 10 ASEAN member states, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea attended the talks from 23 to 27 September, which primarily focused on trade in goods, trade in services and investment.  

The 1st negotiation round of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was organized from May 9th to 13th, 2013 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei with 6 partners: India, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and China. Vietnamese Delegation to the negotiation was of representatives from Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Foreign Affaires, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, State Bank, and Office of National Committee on International Economic Cooperation.