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China
An economic research group warned an upcoming free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Nations will have adverse effects on the country's economy.
Free trade agreements are flying around East Asia these days, with even India, from South Asia, getting a piece of the action.
Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan has said Pakistan wanted free trade with the United States, China and Latin states and would soon sign accords with them in this regard.
If proof were needed that an Asian free-trade "arms race" has begun in earnest, then the 10th ASEAN summit in Vientiane on November 29th-30th provided it in abundance. The highlight of the summit was the signing of an FTA between China and ASEAN, but equally striking was the number of other trade pacts that were, variously, agreed, worked on or proposed during the meeting in the Lao capital.
New Zealand government has released the report of a joint study on the to-be-negotiated NZ-China FTA.
China and Chile have decided to start talks on a free trade agreement (FTA)
Beijing would like to see the emergence of an East Asian arrangement such as the European Union or the North America Free Trade Arrangement (NAFTA). Such an East Asian grouping would balance the world system, which is slowly being carved into blocs.
New Zealand and China will announce the results of a feasibility study into a free-trade agreement later this month, New Zealand's Foreign Ministry said.
Taiwan is struggling to find ways of making free trade agreements (FTAs) with its trading partners, even as China and ASEAN are set to sign two landmark agreements this month establishing the world's largest Free Trade Area, which is scheduled to come into being by 2010.
Trade liberalization and a push toward enhancing trade and economic cooperation between the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China are high on the agenda of the new administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
