The bilateral trade turnover between Vietnam and Japan is expected to reach 29 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, up 16 percent over 2012, Vietnam's state-run news agency reported on Tuesday.Of the total figure, Vietnam's exports to Japan is set to attain some 13 billion U.S. dollars, said the report.

Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Bill Cho (卓士昭) yesterday provided general information to lawmakers about the costs and benefits of a potential entry by Taiwan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), drawing criticism about the government’s preparedness to steer the nation toward securing a seat in the emerging regional economic integration agreement.C

SEOUL, March 26 (Xinhua) -- China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Tuesday started the first round of trilateral talks on the free trade agreement (FTA) in the ROK's capital, which will continue until Thursday.Representatives from the three countries met at the Grand Intercontinental Hotel located in central Seoul to discuss the fields, mechanism

If anyone thought working out a free-trade agreement between the United States and the European Union was going to be easy, France has a message: Slow down. “We will all win, provided we don’t rush,” the French trade minister, Nicole Bricq, told journalists on Monday after meeting with French business leaders.

The Japanese government on Friday decided to set up a 100-member secretariat for US-led Trans- Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, headed by state minister for economic revitalization Akira Amari.

Japan and the European Union will hold a summit next week at which they are expected to formally launch negotiations on a huge free trade deal, officials said on Friday.EU President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso will visit Tokyo for a one-day summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday, foreign ministry officials said.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement last week that Japan hopes to join Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, although welcome, hardly guarantees that the world's third-largest economy will join the only real free-trade game in town. Now for the hard part: Mr.

While President Ma Ying-jeou was admitting that the time was not yet right for Taiwan to enter into the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, the Acting United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis was telling a foreign press media briefing that there were no deadlines for either Taiwan or South Korea to join the negotiations.