Malaysia welcomes the review of the Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement (MAFTA) but any effort to do so, will only be considered after the negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have been concluded.

The top diplomats of South Korea and Japan met in Beijing about an hour ago. We don't know much about the meeting yet, but it's expected to have been tough. For more we connect live to our Lee Ji-won who's at Seoul's foreign ministry.  Ji-won tell us what you know.

Traders body CAIT on Sunday gave a call for the boycott of Chinese products and sought high customs duties of up to 500 per cent on these goods as China supported Pakistan's case on abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir at the UNSC.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he had to confront China over trade even if it caused short-term harm to the U.S. economy because Beijing had been cheating Washington for decades.

Officials of 16 Asia-Pacific countries have voiced their commitment to accelerating negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement with the hope of finalising it by November, according to a Thai official.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Circular No. 12/2019/TT-BCT regulating rules of origin of goods in the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Co-operation between the ASEAN and the People's Republic of China (ACFTA) with many new points.

Customs Newspaper interviews Lawyer Pham Ngoc Hung, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Business Association, to clarify what businesses and state agencies need to do to help Vietnam take opportunities from trade agreements in the future. 

Ukraine and Israel will start working on expanding the free trade area (FTA) agreement so that it would include the service sector, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a joint briefing held Monday with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the president's official website.

Top diplomats of China, Japan and South Korea are scheduled to meet on Wednesday in Beijing as the Tokyo-Seoul trade dispute adds uncertainty to the regional economy. 

Party chairman James Cleverly says the EU has to "demonstrate a degree of flexibility" to avoid the UK leaving without a deal.