JAKARTA (Xinhua): Asean Secretariat has announced that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, the world's largest trade deal so far, will enter into force on Jan 1, 2022.
The secretariat, which made the announcement on Wednesday (Nov 3), said it has received instruments of ratification from six Asean countries, namely Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as from four non-Asean signatory states of Australia, China, Japan, and New Zealand.
