South-east Asia needs a reset on trade deals

Sanchita Basu Das For The Straits Times
Published – Nov 17, 2016, 5:00 am SGT

Cargo being unloaded at the Port of Manila. With globalisation, a macroeconomic instability in one country is felt around the world, such as during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, when South-east Asian countries suffered declines in international trade. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Since the early 2000s, countries in South-east Asia have seen a plethora of trade pacts.

Singapore signed a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with New Zealand in 2000. Soon, others like Malaysia and Thailand got in on the act.

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