China and Australia remain well apart in glacial negotiations on a free trade deal, especially in the agriculture and services sectors, a senior Australian trade official said on Monday.
Norway said Friday it wanted to wrap up a free trade agreement with China despite a warning from Beijing that jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize would “damage Sino-Norwegian relations.”
Costa Rica's Foreign Trade Ministry (COMEX) and the legislature's Special Permanent Committee agreed Thursday morning to recommend approval of the free-trade agreement with China.
Chanting slogans, shaving their heads and painting banners using their own blood, more than 10,000 farmers gathered in downtown Seoul for the biggest rally by the farmers this year.
EU ministers have formally approved negotiations with the Chinese government to strike a wide-ranging bilateral agreement protecting traditional food manufacturers in Europe and China from illicit copies of their products.
Experts at a forum on economics yesterday said the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which came into force yesterday, would exacerbate income disparity and unemployment in Taiwan.
Taiwan and China will be able to develop government-to-government links under the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) signed in June, which will help boost mutual understanding and goodwill, a Taiwanese official said in the Belgian capital Friday.