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Pork import ban lifted

China has ended a ban on imports of pork from Mexico and parts of the United States and Canada, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said on its website yesterday.

Cross-Straits agreement The mainland will allow its commercial banks to undertake cross-Straits currency settlement, Hu Xiaolian, a deputy governor at the central bank, told reporters in Taipei yesterday. Bank of China Ltd is likely to be the first mainland bank to be allowed to conduct the trade, she said at a forum in the city.