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RCEP and CCFTA give a big boost into Cambodia-China trade growth

May 21, 2022
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) have injected a new impetus into the Cambodia-China trade, a Cambodian official said on Thursday.

China is currently the largest trading partner of Cambodia, according to official figures from Cambodia.

Cambodian Ministry of Commerce’s undersecretary of state and spokesman Penn Sovicheat attributed the significant growth in the bilateral trade to the RCEP and the CCFTA, which both took effect on Jan. 1, 2022.

“Both trade pacts have given a big boost to the trade growth between our two countries, and we foresee that the growth will be higher in coming months and years,” he told Xinhua.

“China is a huge market for Cambodia, particularly for our potential agricultural produce such as rice, bananas, mangoes and cassava as well as industrial products, and processing goods,” he added.

Sovicheat said the two pacts have also helped Cambodia to diversify its exports and to further integrate into the regional and global economy.

“The two agreements are also a well-timed intervention in Cambodia’s quest for a Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation, likely by 2028 and the country’s planned endeavor to achieve the upper-middle income and high-income statuses by 2030 and 2050, respectively,” he said.

The RCEP comprises 15 Asia-Pacific countries including 10 ASEAN member states, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, and their five trading partners, namely China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

The mega-regional pact will eliminate as much as 90 percent of the tariffs on goods traded among its signatories over the next 20 years.

Being the world’s largest trade bloc, he said, the RCEP established a market of 2.2 billion people, or 30 percent of the world population, with a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) representing around 30 percent of the global GDP.

“For Cambodia, we expect to see a year’s export growth between 9.4 percent and 18 percent, that will contribute to the national economic growth between 2 percent and 3.8 percent,” Sovicheat said.

“The CCFTA will inject new vitality into the development of economic and trade relations between our two countries for the long term,” he said. Xinhua

This article was first published in Khmer Times. All contents and images are copyright to their respective owners and sources.

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