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The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific.
APEC ensures that goods, services, investment and people move easily across borders. Members facilitate this trade through faster customs procedures at borders; more favorable business climates behind the border; and aligning regulations and standards across the region.
APEC ensures that goods, services, investment and people move easily across borders. Members facilitate this trade through faster customs procedures at borders; more favorable business climates behind the border; and aligning regulations and standards across the region.
APEC has helped drive economic growth and cooperation across the Asia-Pacific by reducing trade barriers, improving the ease of doing business and strengthening connectivity among economies. These efforts have contributed to rising incomes, expanded trade and greater opportunities for businesses and communities across the region.
APEC has helped drive economic growth and cooperation across the Asia-Pacific by reducing trade barriers, improving the ease of doing business and strengthening connectivity among economies. These efforts have contributed to rising incomes, expanded trade and greater opportunities for businesses and communities across the region.
APEC brings together governments, businesses and stakeholders to collaborate on shared priorities. Explore opportunities to participate in events, contribute to initiatives and engage with APEC’s work across the region.
APEC brings together governments, businesses and stakeholders to collaborate on shared priorities. Explore opportunities to participate in events, contribute to initiatives and engage with APEC’s work across the region.
2025 Gyeongju, Korea
Building a Sustainable Tomorrow Connect, Innovate, Prosper
APEC leaders reaffirmed leaders’ long-standing commitment to strengthened cooperation and concrete actions to enable economic growth than benefits all, recognizing the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and demographic shifts that are reshaping labour markets and carrying profound and long-term implications for APEC member economies.
Empower, Include, Grow
APEC leaders resolves to pursue inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The agenda centred on leveraging technology to transition groups with untapped economic potential from informal to formal economic sectors, supporting inclusive development. Leaders endorsed the Lima Roadmap to Promote the Transition to the Formal and Global Economies (2025-2040).
APEC prioritized efforts to make trade more inclusive and interconnected, with emphasis on transparency and resilience in supply chains. Leaders agreed on the Ichma Statement to advance the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), underscoring adaptability to global challenges.
2023 San Francisco, United States
Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All
Returning to the United States 30 years after it first hosted APEC economic leaders, member economies underline effective policies requiring responsiveness to all the people and economies in the Asia-Pacific region. To this end, APEC resolves to advance sustainable and inclusive economic policies while ensuring environmental challenges are addressed. Found within the Golden Gate Declaration— these commitments will steer the region towards new ways of bringing resiliency, sustainability, interconnection, innovation and inclusion to respond to region’s most pressing economic challenges. Leaders endorse the San Francisco Principles on Integrating Inclusivity and Sustainability into Trade and Investment Policy, which will guide future APEC work. In pursuing these goals, APEC members agree to the Non-Binding Just Energy Transition Principles for APEC Cooperation; Principles for Achieving Food Security Through Sustainable Agri-Food Systems in the APEC Region; and Disaster Risk Reduction Framework and Action Plan.
2022 Bangkok, Thailand
Open. Connect. Balance
As APEC emerges from COVID-19, economies work to reopen, reconnect and rebalance the region. In Thailand, APEC officials, ministers and leaders meet in person for the first time since 2020 to prepare for the post-pandemic era. Aware of the need for an inclusive and sustainable recovery, as well as for the need to address head on climate change and other environmental challenges in a meaningful way, leaders endorse the Bangkok Goals on the Bio-Circular-Green Economy—a comprehensive framework to further APEC’s sustainability objectives.
2021 Wellington, New Zealand
Join, Work, Grow. Together. Haumi ē, Hui ē, Tāiki ē.
Faced with an ongoing pandemic and the biggest downturn in 75 years, APEC economies take extraordinary measures to respond to the economic and health crisis and work towards recovery. Leaders meet twice over the course of APEC’s first fully virtual year—first for an extraordinary informal retreat in July, to invigorate efforts to beat back the pandemic, and again in November. With success in facilitating trade in COVID-19 vaccines and related essential medical products and responding to the immediate challenge of climate change, the 2021 agenda also builds on the previous year’s launch of the Putrajaya Vision 2040 by setting out a plan for APEC's work through the next two decades. The Aotearoa Plan of Action advances trade and economic growth in the present, while underpinning policy directions to support future generations.
2020 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Optimising Human Potential towards a Future of Shared Prosperity
Amid a global pandemic, APEC leaders meet virtually for the first time, determined to overcome the challenges of COVID-19 and emerge from the crisis through coordinated action and cooperation. They commit to protecting people’s lives and reco