The Oriental Couchette

... will be forced to settle for smaller markets. A number of separate meetings involving the leaders and high-ranking ministers of TPP-11 countries will be held on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC summit, though the experts do not express much optimism in this regard. Against this background, the RCEP should have got ... ... and intellectual property rights. In other words, we should not expect any significant progress on the “big” issues on the APEC free trade agenda any time soon. If the issue is all but absent from the RCEP and the TPP, where there are some reasonably ...