China's milk imports from New Zealand have surged more than fivefold since 2008 as rising incomes stoked demand, sending prices to a record and bolstering the economy as it recovers from the deadliest earthquake in 80 years. China, the biggest importer of New Zealand dairy products by value, purchased about 353 million kilograms of the country's milk p...
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday requested the U.S. Congress to approve the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between both countries. Santos made the appeal when visiting a flower farm west of Bogota as part of the celebrations of the International Women's Day. "I call upon the U.S. Congressmen to meet their commitments to a strategic partner...
Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin on Tuesday said her country is looking for a commercial approach to increase its trade balance with several Asian countries. "Colombia must get closer to Asia. Now we are opening embassies in Indonesia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. Similarly, we will also improve the embassies in Korea, China and Australia,...
The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (ICHAM) and the Hanoi Business Association (HBA) signed a cooperation agreement here on Wednesday to promote bilateral trade relations between Vietnam and Italy. At the signing ceremony, Italian Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam Damiano Francovigh and Chairman of HBA Nguyen Hong Son expressed their belief that the agr...
Russia's state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport has unveiled its 2011 arms export plan valued at 9.5 billion U.S. dollars, local media reported Wednesday. Anatoly Isaikin, the company's director-general, said Russia aims to keep its position as the world's second-largest arms exporter after the United States. "The 2011 arms export plan will exceed...
THE value of trade carried by truck, rail and pipeline (surface transportation) between the US and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners of Canada and Mexico, rose by 13.8 per cent in December 2010 compared to the same month the previous year, amounting to US$66.5 billion. According to the latest figures provided by the US Department of...
A pinch of rising labor costs has been felt by Chinese factories, but China's labor minister said on Tuesday it is good for the nation's strategic economic restructuring. China faces a dilemma that underpaid factory workers demand higher wages while many small-sized export-oriented factories could not afford the rising costs of labor and raw materials, ...
The trade surplus will decrease further this year and may even go into deficit for a few months, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said on Monday. This will be due to increased imports of high-tech products, green technology, resource-related goods (such as iron ore) as well as simplified procedures and tariff cuts on certain items, he said. But grain ...
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