BANGKOK, June 22 -- In line with ASEAN's 2019 theme of "Advancing Partnership for Sustainability", the EU-ASEAN Business Council (EU-ABC) and ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ABAC) today launched a joint report "Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) in ASEAN and their elimination from a business perspective" which examines the prevalence of non-tariff barriers to trade in three key industrial sectors in ASEAN - Automotive, Agri-Food, and Healthcare. The aim of the report is to highlight the need for faster action in removing NTBs in the region to help ASEAN achieve its objectives as set out in the two ASEAN Economic Community Blueprints, and the subsequent targets of reducing the cost of trade by 10% by 2020 and doubling intra-ASEAN trade by 2025 as a...