ASEAN sign free trade agreement
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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.
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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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Southeast Asia has taken another step towards creating a European-style economic marketplace. A series of anticipated new free-trade agreements could help the region compete with economic powerhouses India and China.
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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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VIENTIANE, Laos: China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are expected to make substantial progress in advancing the free trade area (FTA) at their summit to be held here today.
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Economic ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Friday to liberalize 10 sectors as a first step toward the creation by 2020 of a regional economic community akin to the European Union.
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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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China and 10 South-East Asian countries have signed historic trade pacts to pave the way for the world&#39;s biggest free-trade zone by 2010, covering two billion people.
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VIENTIANE, Laos South Korea and Singapore have concluded a free trade agreement at a regional summit meeting in Laos, the South Korean government announced on Monday.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) declared in Vientiane Monday that it now recognizes China as a full market economy.
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PETER CAVE: Australia has been looking forward to coming away from an unprecedented summit of regional leaders with an agreement on a free trade deal between Australia, New Zealand and the ASEAN nations.
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VIENTIANE - Senior officials of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations made final preparations on Thursday for ASEAN leaders to sign at their summit here next Monday an agreement on accelerating economic integration in the region.
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SANTIAGO : Australia and the United States sealed a free trade agreement to start January 1, 2005 after clearing last-minute obstacles.
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Parliament has approved a new free-trade agreement - with caveats.
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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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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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The Bush administration announced Monday that it reached agreement with Peru on free trade pact amendments that address Democratic concerns on worker rights and the environment.