A meeting of APEC Trade Ministers was held last weekend in Qingdao. Among the many decisions made was “We welcome the APEC Advertising Regulatory Capacity Building Mentoring Program, which aims to promote alignment of advertisement standards and reduce the cost of doing business.”
Please see Item 48 of the Qingdao Statement on this link
http://www.apec.org/Meeting-Papers/Ministerial-Statements/trade/2014_trade.aspx
This is good news and is the next step after that mentioned in the November18, 2013 post below. The decision allows the establishment of an ongoing program.
Watch this space for further developments.