20th December 2016

Korean exports to China fell 10.9% in the first year of a free trade deal between the two countries. Chinese exports to Korea fell just 4.8%.  The graph prepared from...

17th November 2016

The British Brexit debate, and the aftermath of Trump's election, are bringing out widely contrasting views of China as a business partner. Some are hopelessly naive. British hope One of...

2nd March 2016

I simply don't buy US lobbyists' conviction the TPP will get ratified this year. Shouldn't they abandon the attempt? After the Super Tuesday Primary results, more and more U.S. Congress...

11th March 2015

China will accelerate talks over free trade areas, said its Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng on March 8. The country will "will accelerate talks over free trade areas with Japan and...

25th February 2015

Korea and China initialled a Free Trade Agreement on February 25,  the Korean Ministry of Trade said, adding "The two countries' governments have agreed to work for official signing...within the...

31st January 2015

China and Australia announced  in mid-November that a free trade agreement  had been initialled. Negotiations started in May 2005. The Australian Prime Minster’s office said it expected the two countries’...

31st January 2015

In addition to its deal with Australia, in early November, Korea announced it had initialled an FTA with China, though said it would not release details until a provisional signature...

17th November 2014

China's November 11 call for a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) seems to add yet another grandiose trade plan doomed for oblivion to a puzzling set of projects which...