New international trade and tax rules as well as personal data protections and a test on energy reform will keep the public and private sectors busy next year once they can look to non-pandemic issues.
FREE TRADE BEHEMOTH
After almost eight years of strenuous negotiations, 15 nations in the Asia-Pacific, including Thailand, finally signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact, as they concluded the 37th Asean Summit last month.
The RCEP is a proposed free-trade agreement, considered to be the world’s largest FTA, between the 10 member states of Asean and five dialogue partners: China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
The Thai Commerce Ministry is scheduled to propose the deal to…
