<h1>Regional trade negotiations accelerate, focusing on market access flexibilities, services Mode Four linkage, and ISDS carve-outs.</h1> Ministers endorsed a year end deliverables package and directed intensified negotiations for the 24th RCEP round. In Goods, work shall follow the ASEAN Non Paper with retained flexibilities on exclusion, reduction, staging and deviations and intensified bilateral pairing on requests and offers. In Services, members agreed to link the Services text to Mode Four/Movement of Natural Persons and to submit commercially meaningful offers. In Investment, ISDS applicability was to be clarified and agreed not to apply to MFN and PPR, with members submitting revised reservation lists without broad sectoral carve outs.