USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文双语Français
Home / Top News

APEC ministers agree on regional free trade zone

By Li Xiang and Zhong Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2014-11-09 08:38

Trade ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Meeting have agreed to officially start work on creating a regional free trade area, Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng said on Saturday.

"If it is approved at the leader's meeting, it will mean a concrete and substantive step forward for establishing the Free Trade Area of Asia-Pacific," Gao said at a news briefing after the two-day APEC ministerial meeting.

Beijing has been actively pushing for the creation of the FTAAP to fully unleash the region's economic power. The move has been widely viewed as China's response to the rise of a series of bilateral free trade agreements and large regional economic frameworks such as the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership in the region.

APEC ministers agree on regional free trade zone

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US