China: Beijing Agrees First Free-Trade Deal with Developed Country

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The agreement allows both countries to eliminate import tariffs for the next 11 years

The Chinese President Hu Jintao and New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark signed an agreement in <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Beijing</place /></city /> yesterday to establish free trade between the two countries – no import tariffs for the next 11 years. This is the first free trade deal <place w:st="on" /><country-region w:st="on" />China</country-region /></place /> signs with a developed country. Australia</place /></country-region /> is currently under negotiation for a similar deal. 9 application/xml false Australia free trade import New Zealand tariff China: Beijing Agrees First Free-Trade Deal with Developed Country Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/04/abbe94b8-6de7-4014-9013-825c0261dcb4.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 57.68.10.126 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 94086 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web