ISDS Case Map
China
China and Pakistan will next month begin reducing tariffs on one another's imports, in line with the two countries' Free Trade Agreement (FTA), according to a senior Chinese trade official.
The United States and Vietnam signed a trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) June 21 ahead of a June 22 meeting between Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet and U.S. President George W Bush. By warming up its trade relationship with Vietnam, the United States is facilitating an alternative for US investors and businesses that want to set up production operations outside China.
Chinese philosopher Laozi said a thousand-li journey starts by taking the first step, but Australia's free-trade agreement team is looking decidedly footsore.
Pakistan has announced tariff reduction on the import of 6936 items under five bilateral and regional trade agreements.
Rows of container cranes dominate the hazy skyline of Yantian. The port, in China's southern Guangdong province, is the world's fourth busiest - despite few New Zealanders probably even having heard of it.
Mainland China is poised to expand its free trade pact with Hong Kong at the end of this month in a bid to link the two economies more closely.
The evolving geo-strategic framework inexorably impels countries in Southeast Asia to accept China and India as major regional powers.
Trade Minister Warren Truss has accused China and its neighbours of "unrealistic" fears that 140,000 farmers in Australia could wipe out a billion farmers in Asia if there were free trade in agriculture.
Trade Minister Warren Truss has dubbed long-running free trade talks with China as tortuous, a day after the Chinese warned relations with Australia could suffer because of a visit by the Dalai Lama.
It is billed as a "competitiveness" forum bringing business and government officials from across the Western Hemisphere to Atlanta with the goal of boosting trade, investment and livelihoods for the region's 800 million citizens.
