Southeast Asians Finish China Trade Pact but Avoid Touchy Issues
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Southeast Asian ministers on Saturday completed a free trade pact with China and other accords to be adopted at a meeting of their leaders, but touchy
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VIENTIANE, Laos  - Japan and India courted  southeast Asian leaders Tuesday, a day after China signed a  landmark deal with ASEAN to create an Asian free trade market  of 1.8 billion people by 2015.
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The United States and Indonesia  signed an agreement on Tuesday to stop clothing from China,  Vietnam and potentially other suppliers from illegally entering  the U.S. market as Indonesian goods.
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JAKARTA: Asean economic ministers agreed yesterday to start talks on free trade agreements with Japan and South Korea, and agreed on parts of a pact with China.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A2 of the Dec. 1, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. VIENTIANE, Laos -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations yesterday agreed to work
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VIENTIANE, LAOS - China and 10 Southeast Asian countries signed a deal to create one of the world&#39;s largest free-trade areas by the end of the decade.
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China intends to marginalize Taiwan, and that is why it signed a trade pact with ASEAN states at the regional summit meeting in Laos on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday.
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VIENTIANE, Laos Southeast Asian and Chinese officials put the final touches Friday on agreements for next week&#39;s regional summit meeting to create a free-trade area covering nearly two billion people by 2010.
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Free trade agreements are flying around East Asia these days, with even South Asian neighbor India, getting a piece of the action.
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French President Jacques Chirac has wrapped up a China trade mission that&#39;s yielded mixed results. Chirac secured big contracts with the Chinese worth about five billion dollars.
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Ministers from 21 member economies of the Asian-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum ended their two-day meeting on Thursday with a joint statement pledging more efforts to facilitate trade, security, sustainable development and macroeconomic
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The six most developed Southeast Asian nations agreed on Monday to abolish tariffs in 11 major sectors by 2007 - three years earlier than originally planned.
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Pacific Rim leaders ended a two-day summit with pledges to push ahead with negotiations to lower global trade barriers, seen as impediments to the world&#39;s economic growth.
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia  - China trades fairly with the rest of the world and is pursuing a balance in its external trade, Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said on Friday.
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VIENTIANE: India and 10 Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday signed a âprosperityâ blueprint focused on plans for a full free-trade area by 2016 and political and security cooperation to combat terrorism.
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Economic ministers from a 10-member group of Southeast Asian countries on Sunday agreed to begin negotiating a free-trade deal early next year with Australia and New Zealand.
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The leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries have reached an agreement with China that will lead to the creation of the world&#39;s largest free trade zone.