Thai exports in dire straits unless govt joins TPP, trade experts warn MITIGATING MEASURES ARE NEEDED AS ECONOMIC SLUMP WORSENS PETCHANET PRATRUANGKRAI THE NATION EVEN THOUGH the recently agreed Trans-Pacific Partnership will not come into force until it is ratified by its member states, Thailand will immediately lose export orders and see its competitiveness decline […]
Dominique Lam Two months ago, ministers from the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries met in Hawaii for what was widely expected to be the final time. After 10 years of negotiating, there were high hopes of an agreement to bind together one third of the world’s trade under common rules. The countries – Australia, Brunei, […]
Jakkrit Kuanpoth Industrialised countries have long pushed for multilateral norms that facilitate the liberalisation of international investment. The envisaged multilateral investment regulation, if adopted, will not only impose obligations on individual members to open markets in specific sectors to foreign companies, but can also affect very sensitive aspects such as national sovereignty by diminishing state […]
