A New Trade Agreement Is a Good Omen for 2010

On January 1, China and the six “core” countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (the countries are Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) launched a trade agreement covering the activities of 1.9 billion people. Some 90.0 percent of goods are tariff-free among these countries now and the goal is to include the other four ASEAN members (Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) by 2015. Click here to read the full post and comment (Insights subscribers) »