15-Apr-2008
Scoop
New Zealand apparel company Norsewear is one of the first to benefit from the recently signed free trade agreement with China -- securing an order worth close to a million dollars in less than 48 hours after the historic deal was signed.
14-Apr-2008
APP
Pakistan and China have made substantial progress towards entering a Transit Trade Agreement, expanding the scope of Free Trade Agreement, besides identifying new areas of cooperation to further strengthen their multi-faceted ties.
14-Apr-2008
Earth Times
China and Chile signed an agreement on free trade in services on Sunday, following talks between the two presidents. The two nations committed themselves to opening up their service sectors in accordance with World Trade Organization rules, under a supplementary agreement to their formal free-trade pact signed in 2005.
10-Apr-2008
The Chinese and Australian governments have agreed "to unfreeze" the stalled negotiations for a free trade agreement.
10-Apr-2008
Federal Trade Minister Simon Crean says the Prime Minister has shown the Australian Government can express concerns about Tibet, without affecting the trade relationship with China.
10-Apr-2008
Welcome to the era of free trade, Chinese style.With Beijing's completion of a bilateral free-trade pact Monday with New Zealand, its first with a developed country, the government has raised the tempo in its race to secure sources for commodities it deems critical to the growth of the economy: dairy products, food and raw materials.
10-Apr-2008
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters appears to have backed down on a threat to criticise the free trade agreement with China while he is overseas, promising the prime minister he will not denounce it publicly.
9-Apr-2008
The Electoral Commission will consider a New Zealand First advertisement that appeared in daily papers this morning at their next meeting.
9-Apr-2008
Foreign Minister Winston Peters says New Zealand could have done better than it did in the free trade agreement it signed on Monday with China, and that is why his New Zealand First party won't support it.
9-Apr-2008
China's trade deal with New Zealand has made the front pages in Beijing.