Asia-Pacific Foreign Investment Brief
The FDI, Trade, and Economic Development Community

Five years after the entry into force of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), many countries have made progress in implementing...

This report reviews the progress of trade facilitation reforms across 144 countries, based on the fourth UN Global Survey on Digital and...

Trade facilitation can help protect public health while minimizing disruptions to trade as a result of COVID-19. Crowded border posts and...

The EU-ASEAN Business Council (EU-ABC) has published two papers calling for more progress on ASEAN’s regional economic agenda and linking...

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Excellent updated resource by UNCTAD which allows you to explore National Trade Facilitation Committees on a global basis National Trade...

Discover in less than one minute the evolution of the world's main trading nations over the last 22 years! Trade has significantly...

A new treaty aims to turn the idea of cross-border paperless trade into a reality Feb 20 marks the entry into force of a new...

Prior to the pandemic, Southeast Asia had made huge advancements and was forecasted to be the fourth biggest economy by the year 2030....

UNCTAD has published its latest Global Trade Update. The good news is that world trade continued its recovery from the pandemic in the...

This note updates Trade facilitation and the COVID-19 pandemic from April 2020 with insights into the evolution of new border protocols...

Cross-border e-commerce in China is on track for growth this year despite global lockdowns that constrained shipping capacity and supply...

The Asean Customs Transit System (ACTS) will be implemented in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. ACTS enables...

The COVID-19 pandemic was a recurring theme at the meeting of the WTO’s Committee on Trade Facilitation on 20-21 October. A number of...

Promoting regional trade, investments - The World Bank (WB) has expressed interest to help the National Board of Revenue (NBR) modernise...

In an unprecedented first in Maldives, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has halted the USD 6.7 million (MVR 100 million) National Single...

Azevedo has claimed success on issues like a Trade Facilitation Agreement aimed to cut through delays in trade. But on his watch, the WTO...

Former Maersk executive Thomas Bagge has been chief executive and statutory director of Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) for...

ASEAN economic ministers are committed to strengthening regional supply chains and improve trade digitalisation to spur trade and...

Asia Trade, Investment, FDI, Trade Facilitation, Digitalisation & Technical Consulting, Events & Networks - With Covid-19 reducing the...