The Special Meeting of the Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) and related meetings were held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 6-9 October 2018. The TNC met with the Working Groups on Goods, Services and Investment, and received updates on intersessional meetings held since the Twenty-Third Round of negotiations in Bangkok in July 2018.

The meeting welcomed progress in market access and in text negotiations across the Agreement, in advance of the Sixth Intersessional Ministerial Meeting to be held in Singapore on 13 October 2018.

The 24th round of negotiations will be held from 18 to 27 October 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand.