People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Trade figures for October 2009 in Australia showed that the continuing global economic recession still affected the country's trade recovery, Trade Minister Simon Crean said on Wednesday. Australia recorded a trade deficit of 2.4 billion dollars (2.2 billion U.S. dollars) in October 2009, an increase of 29 percent on the revised deficit in September 2009 of 1.8 billion...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
France's overall trade through this year will decline more than 10 percent while "good signs" for the economy might emerge in 2010, Anne-Marie Idrac, the foreign trade minister, said Tuesday. Idrac spoke on radio Classique while discussing the forecast of Pascal Lamy, the chief of the World Trade Organization, for world trade in 2009. Lamy said Monday in...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser has warned that the world's expectations for what can realistically be achieved at the Copenhagen climate conference maybe too high. He was speaking at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, following the start of negotiations between 190 countries in Copenhagen on a new agreement to deal with climate change beyond 2012, Radio New...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Peking - German Economics Minister Rainer Bruederle, on his inaugural visit to China, said Monday that he and Chinese Trade Minister Chen Deming had agreed to fight the sweet poison of protectionism. Both countries - the incumbent and the upcoming ...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Lord Davies of Abersoch, the Trade Minister, flew to Saudi Arabia last night to try to defuse a growing dispute that bankers say could do as much damage to the Gulf’s bruised financial reputation as the Dubai shock of ten days ago.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - A trade minister will seek to persuade Saudi officials at talks on Monday that British banks, which lent to two defaulting Saudi conglomerates should get equal treatment with local creditors, The Times reported.
UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
HE Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, UAE Minister of Foreign Trade has discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas of investment and trade with Panama, New Zealand and Thailand. She held bilateral meetings with trade ministers
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
In 2008-09, FDI in India rose 11% to $27.31 billion, but the financial slowdown has hit such flows worldwide.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) members wrapped up a three-day conference on Wednesday with on breakthrough on the long-stalled Doha Round. "Ministers reaffirmed the need to conclude the (Doha) Round in 2010 and for a stock-taking exercise to take place in the first quarter of next year," Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco,...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) members wrapped up a three-day conference on Wednesday with on breakthrough on the long-stalled Doha Round. "Ministers reaffirmed the need to conclude the (Doha) Round in 2010 and for a stock-taking exercise to take place in the first quarter of next year," Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco,...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) members wrapped up a three-day conference on Wednesday with no breakthrough on the long-stalled Doha Round. "Ministers reaffirmed the need to conclude the (Doha) Round in 2010 and for a stock-taking exercise to take place in the first quarter of next year," Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco,...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) members wrapped up a three-day conference on Wednesday with no breakthrough on the long-stalled Doha Round. "Ministers reaffirmed the need to conclude the (Doha) Round in 2010 and for a stock-taking exercise to take place in the first quarter of next year," Chilean Finance Minister Andres Velasco,...
The Age (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Trade ministers were wrapping up three days of WTO talks on Wednesday with little headway seen on ending an eight-year stalemate on framing a trade liberalisation accord ahead of a 2010 deadline.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Trade ministers were wrapping up three days of WTO talks on Wednesday with little headway seen on ending an eight-year stalemate on framing a trade liberalisation accord ahead of a 2010 deadline. Parties appeared unwilling to budge on the level of cuts to agriculture subsidies and industrial product tariffs which caused the impasse between developed and emerging nations in the...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Trade ministers were wrapping up three days of WTO talks on Wednesday with little headway seen on ending an eight-year stalemate on framing a trade liberalisation accord ahead of a 2010 deadline. Parties appeared unwilling to budge on the level of cuts to agriculture subsidies and industrial product tariffs which caused the impasse between developed and emerging nations in the...
