Jakarta, May 16 -- Trade Minister Budi Santoso discussed three main issues during the opening session of the 2025 APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade (APEC MRT) meeting in Jeju, South Korea.

The three issues are trade innovation through artificial intelligence, multilateral trading systems, and sustainable trade.

"We hope the 2025 APEC MRT will run constructively and generate various solutions and ideas in facing current trade challenges," Santoso noted in a statement on Friday.

During the session, the minister stated that advancing artificial intelligence and digital technology requires APEC to help bridge the development gap among its Economies. This aims to ensure equal distribution of digital trade to all APEC Economies.

"We can ...