The RCEP is seen as a rival to the TPP and now the front-runner for new free trade deals in the region. FTAAP: Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific The deal involves the 21 Pacific Rim nations that ...

Malaysia’s status as a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) remains unchanged ...

As the U.S.-led trade agreement Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, fumbled, the focus has shifted to another deal: the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, known as RCEP. Interview ...

But Washington left the TPP under then President Donald Trump in 2017 and the CPTPP took effect from the following year. Opposition among the American public toward free trade as symbolized by the ...

In his speech at the official ceremony of the UK’s CPTPP "enter-into-force” countdown ... including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and many others,” he said.

In terms of trade facilitation, Tengku Zafrul said, the CPTPP has enabled Malaysian exporters and producers to enjoy preferential tariff treatment via the CPTPP certificate of origin (CO), whose ...