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Australia says FTA deal with China long way off
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.
Oslo wants to sign free trade deal with China
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-China free trade agreement approved for final review
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.
Interest builds in Pacific trade zone
Momentum is building for a US-supported free-trade pact in the Pacific aimed to serve as a counterweight to China's economic influence.
South Korean farmers protest against free trade 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.
China-Taiwan FTA (ECFA), 2010
Three-day seminar on Pak-China FTA
A three-day seminar on “Pakistan’s Free Trade Agreement with China” has started here on Monday.
EU-China agreement: no knockoff Champagne and Brie
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.
ECFA to widen income disparity: forum
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.
ECFA heralds cross-strait government-to-government links: MAC
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.