A seminar presenting new investment opportunities for foreign investors will be held on May 18 in Colombia's southern city Cali, the organizer, Colombia's tourism promotion agency Proexport, said Thursday. The seminar "Opportunities for the Development of Investment Projects in Colombia" informs how companies can qualify for new tax breaks and benefit ...
South Korea and Indonesia have agreed to launch joint study on the feasibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, the foreign ministry said Friday. The two sides plan to conduct four rounds of bilateral meetings starting in June this year with a goal of kicking off official negotiations on bilateral free trade pact in November, whe...
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Thursday that the U.S. financial system may be destabilized again if the Congress would not raise the government debt limit. "Using the debt limit as a bargaining chip is quite risky," Bernanke said when he testified before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate. The U.S. debt ...
The China Classificatin Society (CCS), a Chinese classification society of ships, on Thursday opened its new office in the fourth largest U.S. city of Houston. "As the United State's top oil industry center, 4th biggest city and 3rd largest port, Houston is well connected with the Gulf of Mexico through the 80-kilometer long navigation channel," Gao Zhao...
Hong Kong's total exports volume increased by 17.7 percent year on year in the first quarter in 2011, said the Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) of the city government on Thursday. During the first three months, the volume of Hong Kong's re- exports of goods increased by 18.2 percent from a year ago, whereas that of domestic exports decreased ...
Home sales in Beijing plummeted over 30 percent in the first four months of 2011, partially as a result of the government's actions to cool down the city's red-hot property market. New residential apartment units sold in Beijing over the January-April period totaled 2.59 million square meters, down 32.3 percent from the same period last year, according ...
THE value of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trade in February carried by truck, rail and pipeline between the US, Canada and Mexico increased 11.8 per cent year on year to US$66.5 billion. According to the latest figures provided by the US Department of Transport's statistics bureau, the value of surface transportation cross-border trade was...
DOHA, an institution launched by the World Trade Organisation in 2001, has disappointed in its failure to stimulate trade and investment by WTO members of major developed countries supported those less developed with market openings, said eight trade US bodies. The latest round of trade talks by Doha on multilateral trading was applauded on the one hand f...
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