ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY LIKELY TO PROMOTE MINERALS TRADE

WITH just over 12 months to the launch of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community (AEC), experts anticipate that the European Union-style economic union will promote trades in industrial minerals.The 10 ASEAN nations have been moving towards a more cohesive approach to minerals trading for many years. The ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Minerals (AMMin) was established in 2005 and meets triennially, most recently in November 2013. The group has set a strategic direction for the region’s official policy on minerals development by ...


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