JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia and Canada have opened negotiations over a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (ICA-CEPA) expected to spur bilateral trade and investment.
Indonesia’s Trade Minister, Muhammad Lutfi, and Canada’s Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, Mary Ng, officially launched the negotiations during a virtual ceremony on Monday (June 21) is an extension of President Joko Widodo’s instruction to have Indonesia actively negotiate international trade deals to open new markets, especially new export markets, amid the pandemic, ” said Lutfi.