Low-end manufacturing is leaving China for cheaper labor in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, and this value chain shift will boost trade between China and ASEAN, according to economists.
China's largest trade fair opened its 116th session in the southern province of Guangdong on Wednesday, with delegates expressing confidence despite tough export prospects.
South Korea posted a trade surplus for 32 months in a row due to solid export growth, customs data showed Wednesday.
Indian stocks plunged as much as 150 points in trade on Monday, led by losses in ITC, ICICI Bank, L& T and Tata Motors Ltd.
Latin American exports will experience stagnation for the third year in a row in 2014, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported Thursday.
Internationalization of China's currency has given a boost to the country's trade and investment in other countries, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Chao said on Wednesday.
Japan logged a current account surplus for the second consecutive month in August, standing at 287.1 billion yen (2.65 billion U.S. dollars), as firm income from investments overseas outweighed a trade deficit, government data showed Wednesday.
U.S. stocks reversed earlier gains to trade lower in midday Monday, as investors seemingly grew cautious after the Dow Jones Industrial Average logged its largest daily gains in seven months on Friday.
Financial reform is about to move faster in the Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ), a central bank official said on the eve of the zone's first anniversary.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and visiting South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday signed a free trade deal and launched a strategic partnership between the two countries, the Office of the Canadian Prime Minister said.
China's Vice Premier Ma Kai has hailed the positive and fruitful economic and financial partnership between China and France, calling for a closer bilateral cooperation to harness wider business opportunities.
The 11th China-ASEAN Expo kicked off in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Tuesday, with over 2,300 companies from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) attending the event.
In the "cloak and dagger" tradition of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions, it has now been four days since the latest round of negotiations opened in Hanoi, with no word from senior negotiators on the progress of what is the world's most important free trade agreement -- and its most opaque. According to a Japanese government source, senior officials from the 12 countries involved in the TPP negotiations from across the Pacific Rim gathered with typical discretion to hammer out the many sticking points that, along with a lack of transparency, plague the ambitious project.
Myanmar and India will cooperate in raising their trade volumes, sources with the Myanmar Ministry of Commerce said Friday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected, during his upcoming visit to Mongolia, to work with Mongolian leaders to explore effective ways to expand and deepen bilateral economic and trade relations between two countries.
South Korea and China have upgraded the bilateral partnership since the two nations set up diplomatic relations in 1992, especially on areas of trade, finance and culture, a South Korean think tank said Thursday.
China on Monday voiced regret over the failure of World Trade Organization (WTO) members to finalize a deal on "trade facilitation," saying it would have a negative impact on the multilateral trade system and Doha Round talks.
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