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Service trade with China set to be new impetus for EU recovery: expert
Brussels and Beijing should speed up negotiation of a Sino-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty and strive to sign it within this year, a Chinese think-tank argues
White House sees China as trump card in trade debate
The Obama administration is confident lawmakers will warm up to a proposed Pacific free trade deal on the grounds it is a chance for the United States, rather than China, to dictate the rules of Asian trade, a top official said on Thursday.
Korean petrochemical industry to be most affected by Korea-China FTA
Those in the petrochemical industry are unhappy about the provisionally-signed Korea-China FTA, because the synthetic resin and rubber imported from China wil be subject to immediate tariff elimination
S. Korea, China initial bilateral free trade pact
South Korea and China initialed their free trade agreement (FTA) Wednesday, taking a step closer to implementing what South Korean officials hail as the most significant trade deal for the country.
S. Korea, China expected to initial free trade deal next week: official
A high-level trade ministry official in Seoul says the two sides have reached agreement on a number of previously unresolved technical issues during closed-door talks.
China issues a first draft of its new foreign investment law for public comment
The Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China recently (19 January 2015) published a first draft of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign Investments (the Draft Law), for public consultation.
Goldman pushes China investment deal as Silicon Valley wary
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is exhorting the US to quickly complete a treaty with China to open the long-sheltered market of the world’s most populous nation to American banks and other firms.
China proposing to establish free trade zone with Eurasian Economic Union
China has proposed to the Eurasian Economic Union to think about creation of a free trade zone, according to Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, investor-state dispute settlement and China
Advocates of a transatlantic investment treaty should be careful not to overstate their case and play the “China-card” as a core argument for allowing US investors to side-track EU courts.
Concerns over backlash: Implementation of Korea-China FTA around the corner
The Korean government is planning to provisionally sign the Korea-China FTA and make public the schedule of concessions this week.