Colombia has begun negotiations with Singapore on a free trade agreement (FTA), local press said Monday. If the talks go on well, the agreement would be signed in 2012, Colombian Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Sergio Diaz-Granados told the La Republica newspaper. The negotiations were launched not after Colombia announced the establishment ...
As mining giant BHP Billiton has withdrawn its takeover bid for fertilizer group Potash Corporation of Canada, China, a major agricultural nation, can be assured that industry talk of a BHP potash monopoly would not become a reality. However, domestic researchers and industry insiders said, even though it did not occur, China should not fear a so-called...
China's economic growth rate was likely to slow in the fourth quarter to 8.7 percent, mainly as a result of economic restructuring, the State Information Center (SIC) said Friday. The forecast was almost 1 percentage point lower than the third quarter's 9.6-percent growth rate, but the SIC expected the economy to grow by 10 percent for the full year o...
Beijing, the Chinese capital, generated 243.2 billion U.S. dollars in foreign trade in the first 10 months of the year, a 42-percent year-on-year rise, the local customs house said Saturday. The total included 45.4 billion U.S. dollars of exports, up 16.9 percent year on year, and 197.8 billion dollars of imports, up 49.3 percent. The city's trade ...
The State Council, China's Cabinet, on Thursday ordered further measures in its crackdown on stock market insider trading. The measures include ensuring confidentiality of non-public information about listed companies and regulating government officials who have access to such information, according to a statement posted on the State Council website. ...
Peru's agricultural exports grew 27.8 percent in the first nine months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009, Peru's Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday. The value of the exports reached 2.224 billion U.S. dollars and it is expected to surpass 3 billion dollars by the end of this year, due to a 15.9 percent growth of production and internation...
Southern China's Guangdong Province generated 627.28 billion U.S. dollars in foreign trade in the first 10 months of the year, a 30.1-percent year-on-year increase, the local customs house said Saturday. Accounting for 26.2 percent of the nation's total foreign trade, the figure included 360.05 billion U.S. dollars of exports, up 26.7 percent year on ...
China will abolish the favoritism of companies with foreign investments on December 1, 2010, which is a clear sign of foreign investment policy switch. However, the change won't cause serious impacts on foreign investors, experts said Friday. Wu Yongqiang, special observer from the Voice of China, said the government will do so by claiming urban mainte...
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