China, Southeast Asia Sign Trade Accord
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Southeast Asian nations and China signed an accord Monday to create the world&#39;s biggest free trade area by removing tariffs for their 2 billion people by decade&#39;s end - a key step in their vision of a trade bloc to rival Europe and North America.
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VIENTIANE, Laos - Southeast Asian leaders finalized visionary pacts with China and India at their summit on Monday, hoping for a pan-Asian trade bloc to rival Europe and the United States, even as the region grapples with terrorism and epidemics such as
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VIENTIANE, Nov. 27. - South-east Asian ministers today finalised a free trade pact with China and a host of other accords to be adopted at a summit, but touchy topics like the lack of democracy in Myanmar
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The Asean group of south-east Asian states sealed a historic trade pact with China today in the latest move towards a pan-Asian trade bloc that could rival the EU and the US.
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Pakistan and China signed a series of  agreements on Wednesday on everything from agriculture to aid  as they sought to deepen economic and trade ties during a visit  by Pakistani President Shaukat Aziz.
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Southeast Asian countries have completed talks on a plan for economic integration, bringing the region a step closer to creating a European-style single market covering 530 million people.
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The leaders of China and India agreed Tuesday to double trade between their two countries to $40 billion by 2010 and to boost ties that have been marked by suspicions dating to a 1962 border war and rivalry over their regional roles.
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SHANGHAI, China -- China has reached agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, on completely removing tariffs on merchandise goods by 2010 as part of a proposed free trade agreement, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce says.
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Chinaâs landmark trade agreement with Southeast Asian leaders is the latest example of how the communist giant is claiming a growing role in a region long dominated by the United States.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro  Koizumi wooed southeast Asia on Tuesday a day after regional  giant China signed a landmark deal with ASEAN to create an open  Asian market of 1.8 billion people by 2015.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, meeting this weekend in Indonesia, issued a collective, official recognition of China as a full market economy.
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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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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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Beijing, Dec 6 : China and Germany today signed 22 cooperative documents here to boost bilateral relations and trade cooperation after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder held wide-ranging talks and established a &#39;hot line
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JAKARTA: Member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced on Saturday they recognize China&#39;s full market economy status.
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The Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) and China have signed an agreement to create the world&#39;s biggest free trade area by removing tariffs for their two billion people by the end of the decade.