Related Keywords: Apec leaders, between ASEAN and six states, longer term vision of creating the FTAAP, proposed free trade agreement, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, spur momentum for successful conclusion of the RCEP, United States withdrawal from TPP
The United States withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to spur momentum for the successful conclusion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a proposed free trade agreement between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing free trade agreements (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand).