RCEP trade deal on track; To be signed by 2020-end: Singapore Minister
Singapore's Minister of Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing has said the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal was still on track and it would be signed by the end of 2020.RCEP brings together the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. The countries have made an offer to India, which pulled out of talks last November, to see if it is prepared to rejoin discussions. "If India is unable to rejoin the discussions in the coming month, then plans will continue to proceed with the legal scrubbing for the preparation for the siging at the end of the year," Chan told reporters. "At this point in time we are still on track for the signing by the RCEP countries at the end of the year," he added. Chan was s...