EU/ASEAN trade deficit narrows
To coincide with the EU-ASEAN Summit which took place in Singapore today (November 22), Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, has released the latest figures on trade between the EU27 and the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam — which illustrate that the gap in trade appears to be closing.