The Comprehensive Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) promises great benefits for Vietnamese firms, but many regulations on technical barriers and social responsibility will have to be met in order to take full advantage of the trade deal, experts said at a conference in HCM City on December 15.

The European Commission welcomes today’s approval in the European Parliament of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement and the EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement. The trade agreement negotiated by the Commission is the first ever to include an explicit reference to the Paris climate agreement. It will create an open trading zone covering 635 million people and almost one third of the world’s total GDP. The Strategic Partnership Agreement is the first ever bilateral framework agreement between the EU and Japan.

The United States and China reached a 90-day ceasefire in a trade dispute that has rattled financial markets and threatened world economic growth. The breakthrough came after a dinner meeting Saturday between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires.

At an annual trade meeting today (Nov. 30), Taiwan delegates once again requested Japan’s assistance in joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The Malaysian Government has not set any deadline for ratifying the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Malaysian national news agency Bernama quoted International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Darell Leiking as saying.

Japan's lower house of parliament on Thursday cleared a bill to ratify a free trade agreement with the European Union, paving the way for its passage through the upper house by year-end.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe here on the sidelines of the G20 summit and they agreed to step up negotiations for two regional free trade deals.

New Zealand is unlikely to gain a better dairy deal under the upgraded free trade agreement with China, with tariffs of over $100 million a year looking set to continue until 2024.

The United States and China are exploring a trade pact that would halt further tariffs from Washington in exchange for new talks looking at major changes to Beijing's economy policies, officials from both governments told The Wall Street Journal.

The European Union denied a German magazine report that the bloc’s chief trade negotiator Cecilia Malmstrom was headed to Washington this week to meet with her U.S. counterpart, in a last-ditch attempt to head off tariffs on car imports.