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Philippine Star
Philippine Star
FIRST PERSON – Alex Magno – The Philippine Star January 8, 2022 | 12:00am The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) takes off this month. The Philippines is in danger of missing the ship because the Senate has not ratified the treaty that would make our economy a part of the emerging western Pacific free trade zone. RCEP is an ambitious and historic enterprise. It will bring the ten countries of the ASEAN plus Japan, China, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia into a free trade bloc. We have often talked about Asia becoming the center of gravity of the global economy. RCEP is th…