The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has this week been finalised after negotiations began in 2010. The TPP centers on a free trade zone between 12 countries located around the Pacific rim including Australia, the US, New Zealand, ...
On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries announced conclusion of their negotiations. The summary of the TPP Agreement is as follows: Disclaimer: The Following Summary of the Trans-Pacific ...
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China’s strategic “One belt, one road” policy has sparked local manufacturers interests of exporting products abroad, but most are afraid to take action. Statistics from different research organizations have varied widely. ...
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Specialty label and packaging company CCL Industries is planning to invest around $35m in its facility in Guanajuato, Mexico over the next three years. The investment will see the addition of new equipment to manufacture plastic laminate ...
Chinese businesses need not panic after the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership was inked earlier this week as China will be able to cope with the potential challenges arising from the TPP, according to economists. "For China, we have to ...
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Mainly benefiting cost savings from utilization of in-stock raw materials procured earlier at lower prices, Taiwan-based China Steel Corp. (CSC), the island's largest steelmaker by size, therefore chalked up a 54-percent growth in pretax ...
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2010-2014 China Import and Export Overview (Unit: Billion USD) Year I&E Turnover Export Sales Import Turnover Difference Total YoY ...
Vietnam and EU have agreed in principle on a trade and investment agreement, the most ambitious and comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) that the EU has ever concluded with a developing country, the European Commission said on its ...
In the first six months of this year, Taiwan exported US$10.12 billion of machinery, including US$1.64 billion of machine tools, both of which representing year-to-year decreases, with the total export inching down 0.4 percent and the ...
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Vietnam’s textile and garment sector continues to be a magnet for FDI. While FDI in Vietnam has fallen significantly in the first six months of 2015, it rose sharply in the textile and garment sector, according to the country’s ...
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Textile and apparel exports from the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia are set to benefit as the Malaysia-Turkey Free Trade Agreement (MTFTA) will come into effect on August 1, 2015, according to Malaysian media reports. The MTFTA ...
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Financial services company India Nivesh has warned that when the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes into effect, India would be negatively impacted to a major extent; though India would not be the only country at disadvantage. China, ...
The governments of India and Thailand have signed the double taxation avoidance treaty (DTAT). The treaty was among a number of important agreements signed by India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Thai deputy prime ...
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India and the European Union will resume talks in August after a two-year gap on the proposed free trade agreement for boosting two-way commerce and investment, the media has reported. "Sometime in August, the EU chief negotiator will ...
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President Barack Obama has signed two important trade measures into law – the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 and Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA-2015). Both bills, passed by ...
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