UAE and Indonesia sign comprehensive economic partnership agreement – The National

UAE and Indonesia sign comprehensive economic partnership agreement – The National

The UAE and Indonesia, the biggest South-East Asian economy, signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on Friday to boost mutual trade between the two nations.

The CEPA heralds a new phase of strategic economic co-operation and will deepen commerce and investment ties between the public and private sector companies from both the UAE and Indonesia.

The agreement covers sectors including trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property rights, Islamic economics, customs procedures and trade facilitation, economic co-operation, small and medium enterprises, digital commerce, as well as legal requirements and institutional issues, Indonesia's trade ministry said in a statement.