25-Apr-2007
South Korea will quickly decide whether or not to launch negotiations for free trade agreements (FTA) with China, Australia and Gulf states, the nation’s top economic policymaker said Wednesday.
18-Apr-2007
The Hindu
India and China together represent the "new global economic architecture" Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday. But India and China themselves are often embroiled in fractious trade disputes.
11-Apr-2007
AFP
South Korea has been reluctant to rush into an FTA with China amid fears that cheap food could flood the domestic market. But South Korean officials said they would now consider starting free trade talks with China, after Seoul and Washington sealed a trade agreement last week.
9-Apr-2007
Korea and China are moving swiftly toward negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. China’s courtship of Korea has intensified since Seoul clinched an FTA with the US last Monday, with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao expressing hope last Thursday that an FTA between Beijing and Seoul can be concluded
as soon possible".
8-Apr-2007
"I will lead a large business delegation to China in June, and will try to give support so that China opens negotiations with Switzerland," Leuthard told the Neue Zuercher Zeitung am Sonntag newspaper in an interview.
6-Apr-2007
As official talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the U.S. have been completed, attention is focused on possible trade negotiations between Korea and other nations, such as the European Union and China.
6-Apr-2007
China and Iceland will kick off free trade agreement (FTA) talks next week, and are expected to make substantial progress.
6-Apr-2007
Playfuls
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday he will seek to speed up the process for a free trade agreement when he visits South Korea next week.
4-Apr-2007
Yonhap
South Korea’s finance minister said Wednesday that the government may push to strike a free trade agreement (FTA) with China after it wraps up negotiations with the European Union (EU).
31-Mar-2007
President of Peru Alan Garcia and member of the Permanent Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, Li Changchun, confirmed on Friday the common interest to negotiate a bilateral free trade agreement.
30-Mar-2007
Trade within South Asia can be more than doubled if appropriate regional agreements on roads, rail, air, and shipping are put in place. A comprehensive report prepared by the World Bank ahead of the Saarc Heads of State Summit in New Delhi on April 3 to 4 has suggested that the instrumentality of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) be deployed not in promoting South Asia Free Trade Agreement (Safta) but project by project cooperation in areas of mutual interest.
30-Mar-2007
Australia’s free trade agreement talks with China concluded their eighth round in Beijing with little progress, despite many "technically useful" discussions.
27-Mar-2007
Last night’s exclusion of an accredited journalist from a Beehive photo opportunity with the Michael Cullen and the Deputy Premier of China Zeng Peiyan, because Chinese officials thought the journalist was a “problem”, shows that the Government is so desperate for a trade deal with China that it will sacrifice free speech in New Zealand to get it, says the Green Party.
27-Mar-2007
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Tuesday New Zealand is willing to promote a free trade agreement with China as early as possible.
26-Mar-2007
Pakistan and China would exchange diplomatic notes for initiation of trade under Free Trade Agreement (FTA) during the visit of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to Beijing from April 17 to 19.
24-Mar-2007
Xinhua
Mexico and China will seek important progress towards signing a reciprocal investment promotion agreement before the end of 2007.
23-Mar-2007
Mexico and China will seek important progress towards signing a reciprocal investment promotion agreement before the end of 2007, Mexico’s Secretary of Economy Eduardo Sojo said in the opening session of the 15th Mexico-China Plenary Meeting yesterday.
22-Mar-2007
Pakistan has not been able to take the desired advantage from the two Free Trade Agreements with Sri Lanka and China.
19-Mar-2007
Peru and Norway are China’s next target as trade partners even as the country is busy discussing free trade agreements (FTAs) with two dozen economies.
14-Mar-2007
Recent news that informed of a 7% increase in Peru’s economy was not to the liking of Peruvian President Alan Garcia.
