The long-drawn negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement will continue into 2019 to sort out issues related to goods and services trade among member nations, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Tuesday. The Minister was briefing reporters here following a meeting of trade Ministers of the 16-nation RCEP in Singapore last week, which concluded on Sunday.

China and Mauritius are preparing for the final signing of a bilateral free trade agreement after concluding months-long negotiations Sunday, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).

The fear is that the escalating tariff conflict will freeze business investment and trade in a blow to global growth.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and government of South Korea on Monday released the text of agreed amendments to the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), including new customs disciplines. The amendments were effectively concluded in March.

Dominic Raab has chided Tory Brexiters who are urging the prime minister to dump her Chequers proposals in favour of a Canada-style free-trade deal, insisting that the government will not “roll over” at the first signs of criticism from Brussels.

Increasing trade between the EU and the ACP (African-Caribbean-Pacific), particularly African countries, lay at the heart of the ambition of the Cotonou Agreement. That was supposed to be embodied by regional Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the EU.

Talks between Canada and the United States have intensified as the two countries push to hammer out a deal on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) due by today, with both sides upbeat about the progress made so far.

The finance ministers of Japan and China agreed Friday to bolster economic cooperation, with concern growing that an escalating trade war waged by U.S. President Donald Trump will continue to rattle global financial markets

British Prime Minister Theresa May, on her first ever visit to Africa, pushed post-Brexit trade, investment and partnership when she met South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in Cape Town on Tuesday in the first of three continental stopovers. ‘By 2022 I want the UK to be the G7’s number one investor in Africa,’ she said after meeting Ramaphosa, repeating her earlier comments at a business forum. As always, the devil will be in the detail, and those remained outstanding on May’s working visit.

Talks on a major trade pact between Asean and six Asia-Pacific countries have reached a critical stage and could be "substantively concluded" soon, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Wednesday (Aug 29).