Commonwealth’s economic momentum grows

A SIGNIFICANT range of business memorandums of understanding were sealed at the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Summit hosted in the City of London in April 2026.

However, momentum is growing for a much bigger economic prize for the 56-member organisation – an ambition that holds substantial strategic value for key Asean nations including Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.

The potential larger business ambition on the horizon is a pan-Commonwealth trade liberalisation deal. This would build from the wide range of bilateral and plurilateral economic agreements currently in place between member nations.