The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Rimbink Pato, who attended the ACP-EU Joint Ministerial Trade Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on 26 October, signed the ACP Administrative Cooperation Agreement (ACA).
This makes it possible for PNG to enter into intra-ACP trade relations with the cumulation of the rules of origin.
Under this WTO multilateral trading rule, countries within the same Trade Agreement region could cumulate rules of origin.