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How Free Trade Agreements Affect You, Even If They Don't Affect Your Country
In this increasingly connected world, the number of trade agreements is expanding globally, not contracting, despite political rhetoric. Evaluating current trade agreements, even those that don't involve where you live or directly do business, may uncover new international opportunities, writes Bill Ansley, vice president of UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Customs and Trade Compliance.
GE Reconditioning Workshop in Phu My, Vietnam
Reconditioning key parts and OEM equipment helps to ensure that technological standards and resultant efficiency levels are constantly being met, while ensuring risks are kept to a minimum. Yet these challenges must be faced while adhering to the tight budgets brought about by wider economic conditions.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: What? Why? And ASEAN.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has been ten years in development and is so shrouded in the tightly wound cogs of national secrecy that it’s acquired an almost legendary aura of mystery.
The deal took a major step forward this week with the signing of a TPPA agreement in Atlanta, USA. But with the full terms yet to be revealed, what do we really know about the TPPA? And what does it mean for ASEAN?
What is it?