U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on Tuesday promised more transparency over trade negotiations with Asia Pacific and European Union (EU) countries.
Five third-party payment firms have received the green light to handle yuan-denominated cross-border payment in Shanghai's free trade zone, the Shanghai branch of China's central bank said on Tuesday.
Stronger-than-expected growth in China's foreign trade last month has surprised the market and prompted many analysts to look for further hints of underlying economic strength.
Recent media exposure and the ensuing police crackdown on prostitution in south China's Dongguan raised an uproar of support, ironically, for sex workers, not for the campaign.
The campaign against the illegal sex trade in the booming southern entertainment city of Dongguan, Guangdong Province, will get tougher still, local police said on Tuesday.
India Tuesday regretted that trade and travel across line-of-control ( LoC) in Kashmir was stalled after the arrest of a truck driver on charges of smuggling narcotics and urged Pakistan to resume the trade.
After 35 years of economic boom sparked by the reform and opening-up policy, China is advancing its reforms in the new year by building "a new open economic system."
China-Russia trade has downshifted, rising only 0.5 percent so far in 2013, and concern is growing that trade for the whole year might not grow at all from 2012.
In 2013, China continued to promote the internationalization of the yuan, or Renminbi, with media and analysts buzzing about the effect of recent reforms on the increasingly global currency.
After a roller-coaster year, China's foreign trade may yet reach its 8-percent growth target by the end of 2013. Exporters remain optimistic.
China will hold trade fairs for the senior care and products industry every year starting in 2014 as the country faces challenges from an aging population, the country's National Committee On Aging (CNCOA) said Tuesday.
The number of new trade restrictive measures imposed by G-20 economies over the past six months increased as trade flows slowed down , said a latest trade monitoring report released by World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday.
IFC, a World Bank member, and banking multinational Standard Chartered have signed a risk sharing facility, which will increase the amount of Renminbi-denominated trade finance in emerging markets, an IFC statement said Tuesday.
In 2001, China became a latecomer to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that heralded vast changes in the global economic landscape. Twelve years on, the country is aiming for a more constructive role in the framework through further opening up and deeper reforms.
The fifth regular meeting of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) opened Tuesday morning in Taipei.
China's exports grew faster in November thanks to Christmas consumption in Western countries and a recovering global economy, but pressure remains for future growth, experts said.
The World Trade Organization (WTO)'s latest deal reached in Bali, Indonesia, will greatly reduce agriculture export subsidies, which is good for developing nations like Chile, the country's finance minister Felipe Larrain said Monday.
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