RCEP to commit to signing free trade deal in 2020: source

Leaders from 16 Asia-Pacific nations including Japan, China and India are likely to declare early next week their intent to give up achieving their goal of finalizing a free trade deal by the end of this year, a source close to the matter said Saturday.But the leaders of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership are expected to commit to signing an agreement on creating the world's largest free trade area in 2020 in a joint statement to be released after their scheduled summit on Monday in Bangkok, the source said.Most of the negotiations regarding RCEP have been completed, and the fe…READ FULL ARTICLE