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The EU is made up of 28 member countries, has a population of over 500 million people and accounts for 25% of global GDP. An arrangement among a group of nations to allow free trade between member countries but impose tariffs on other countries that may wish to trade with them. However, member countries are free to maintain individual tariff schedules for countries that do not belong to the group E. Examples of trading blocs include the EU, NAFTA and ASEAN. This involves a formal agreement among two or more countries to reduce or eliminate customs duties and nontariff trade barriers among partner countries. This might be through relaxing barriers to trade, or even having a common currency, and increasing taxes on products brought in from outside the bloc, protecting them from outside competition.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is made up of 10 Southeast. A trade bloc is a group of countries who have joined together to promote trade. Fifteen countries have formed the world's largest trading bloc, covering nearly a third of the global economy.