Monthly Archives: August 2006

1. The Fourth Consultations of the Economic Ministers from ASEAN and the Republic of Korea was held on 24 August 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  H.E. Dato' Seri Rafidah Aziz, Minister of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia and H.E. Kim Hyun-Chong, Minister for Trade of the Republic of Korea co-chaired the Consultations. 2. The Ministers are pleased [...]

1. The Thirteenth AEM-METI Consultations was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 23 August 2006. The Consultations was co-chaired by H.E. Dato’ Seri Rafidah Aziz, Minister of International Trade and Industry of Malaysia and H.E. Mr. Toshihiro Nikai, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. ASEAN-Japan Trade and Investment Relations 2. The Ministers exchanged views on recent [...]

1. We, the ASEAN Economic Ministers express our deep concern and disappointment on the suspension of the Doha negotiations in July 2006 because of divergences in positions on key issues of domestic support and market access in agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA).  This suspension has systemic implications on the efficacy of the multilateral trading system [...]

1. The Thirty-Eighth Meeting of the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) was held on 22 August 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  H.E. Dato’ Seri Rafidah Aziz, Minister of International Trade and Industry of Malaysia chaired the Meeting, which was preceded by a Preparatory ASEAN Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM), the Ninth ASEAN Investment Area (AIA) Council Meeting [...]

1. The Twentieth Meeting of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) Council was held on 21 August 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  2. The Meeting was attended by Ministers from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. The Secretary-General of ASEAN was also in attendance.  The Meeting was chaired [...]

ASEAN FDI rebound breaches pre-Asian Crisis level 1. The Ninth AIA Council met on 21 August 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to review developments in the AIA for the past year. The Council was pleased to note the increase in ASEAN FDI Flows for 2005, which reached US$38 billion, representing a 48% year-on-year increase from the [...]