Laos Is Poised to Take Last Asean Place in WTO: Southeast Asia
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The World Trade Organization is poised this month to accept Laos, the smallest economy in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the last one outside the global trading club.
The terms of Laos’s membership were agreed to last week by a working party on its accession, and now must be endorsed by all 157 members of the WTO, according to a posting on the Geneva-based group’s website.