{"id":855,"date":"2022-10-08T08:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T08:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aseminfoboard.org\/?page_id=855"},"modified":"2023-02-22T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T07:56:34","slug":"economic-financial-pillar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aseminfoboard.org\/economic-financial-pillar\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic & Financial Pillar"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A major component of the ASEM dialogue is its focus on economic and financial issues of common interest to members. The aim of ASEM economic cooperation is\u00a0to increase trade and investment flows between Asia and Europe\u00a0<\/strong>and to do so applying fully World Trade Organization (WTO) rules that reduce trade barriers and increase market access between the two regions. ASEM Leaders established the\u00a0Asia-Europe Business Forum\u00a0to encourage links between the governmental and private business sectors, including small and medium sized enterprises, of the two regions. These links support the measures to increase trade and investment flows between Asia and Europe.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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ISSUES OF COMMON INTEREST<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Areas of discussion that fall within the economic and financial agenda of ASEM include managing global growth in the face of economic downturns; increasing regional economic integration through bodies such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); supporting trade facilitation and investment through Senior Official\u2019s Meetings on Trade & Investment (SOMTI) and the ASEM Customs DG-Commissioners\u2019 Meetings; discussions on taxation; and discussions to include private sector partners at all possible levels.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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ASEM is fully committed to the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development in the execution of its own programmes that promote greater trade and investment between Asia and Europe.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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ASEM\u2019s multilateral approach in its work ensures that Leaders remain focused on increasing trade and investment within the WTO rules-based system. Hence, all ASEM\u2019s economic and financial measures and initiatives have WTO goals at their core, goals such as keeping markets open, resisting all forms of protectionism, and ensuring free and open trade, to name a few.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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ASEM is committed to improving labour standards, workplace safety, and other related human rights standards in the global supply chains that a growing number of workers worldwide are joining. ASEM believes that increasing labour standards in these supply chains can only improve value both for individual workers and the international economy.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Connectivity is a principle that cuts across economic, social and cultural areas and guides the meetings and work of ASEM Leaders. Economic connectivity refers to developments in the digital economy, increasing transportation links, and promoting innovation and technologies.<\/p>