CPTPP members to begin talks with Europe, ASEAN

Members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership on Friday announced they will begin trade dialogues with the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Ministers and representatives from the 12-member trade pact met on the sidelines of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers’ meeting in Jeju, South Korea. Citing a desire to “promote shared trade and investment interests and to reinforce the CPTPP’s role in the global economic architecture” amid “increasing challenges,” CPTPP members...