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Enter RCEP: The World’s Largest Free Trade Agreement

Logistics Viewpoints

This last item, rules of origin (ROO) is particularly significant as it means that a product can be shipped at the most preferential tariff rate to any of the 15 RCEP markets as long as it contains content produced in any one of these countries.

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China’s Historic Silk Road is Resurrected from the Rubble

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In 2013, President Xi Jin Ping introduced an initiative to construct a modern-day equivalent of the Silk Road as part of the country’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More than 2,000 years after its creation, the road that changed the face of Chinese commerce is being revived. Sustainability and Interconnected Economic Growth.

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