APEC Members Meet for Trade Talks in Vietnam
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members opened two weeks of trade talks in Ho Chi Minh City that will culminate in a senior officials meeting Aug. 29-30, it announced. Regional measures for enhancing e-commerce growth and “secure trade,” such as clamping…
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down on illegal timber and wood product exports, will be “taken forward” by officials, APEC said. Officials will also focus on increasing transparency and participation in trade agreement negotiations while easing trade barriers “at and behind borders,” as well as promoting trade in the automobile, health, and information and communication technology sectors, APEC said. “Creating a policy environment that better accommodates emerging sectors, and the skills, technology and supply chains that underpin them, is at the top of our to-do list,” APEC Secretariat Executive Director Alan Bollard said in a statement.