Negotiations between the two countries on a trade deal covering manufactured goods, agriculture, and services are “going very well” and that they were “close to finalizing it

The Government has issued a resolution approving the first protocol that amends the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA).

Although it is forecasted that it will continue to face many difficulties in the second half of the year, the whole seafood industry has determined to make the best effort to reach US$10 billion in export value, and strive toovercomethe recommendations of the European Commission (EC) on combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, aiming to remove the "yellow card".

The total import and export revenue of agricultural, forestry and aquatic products is estimated to have reached nearly US$39.5 billion in the first seven months of this year with increasing export revenue in rice, vegetables, cassava, shrimp, wood products and others.

Cambodia has listed around 340 more commodities to export to China under the Cambodia-China bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA), bringing the total to more than 10,000. Most of the products are in agriculture and agro-processing and are in addition to what Cambodia has received from the Asean-China FTA, according to a senior official of the Ministry of Commerce.

The idea that Australia faces a tension between its security alliance with the United States and its economic relationship with China overlooks the importance of its economic relationship with the United States.

Against a backdrop of trade tensions, disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic and a global recession, global value chains (GVCs) are being tested like never before. This is raising uneasy questions for Asian economies.

It's the "Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership" , the CPTPP. It's been billed as a "next-generation" agreement, covering 11 nations and featuring a suite of comprehensive trade liberalisation measures, including tariff elimination, investment protection, and a raft of strong rules and regulations on services trade.

While import-restrictive measures introduced by WTO members continued to affect a growing share of global trade, the Director-General’s latest mid-year report on trade-related developments presented to members on 24 July also indicates a shift towards import-facilitating measures, including products related to the COVID-19 crisis.

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hor Nam Hong said on July 23 that Cambodia and China will sign a free trade agreement before August 12 ahead of the European Union’s partial withdrawal of the Everything-but-Arms (EBA) trade status.