10/9/2007 6:13:00 PM
The Chinese mainland’s imports and exports of textiles and garments topped 124 billion U.S. dollars, up 18 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of this year, according to statistics with China Customs. It makes up almost 10 percent of the mainland´s total trade volume in the sam…
10/9/2007 6:01:00 PM
The retail sales of consumer goods in China rose 16 percent year-on-year to almost 350 billion yuan (46.7 billion U.S. dollars) during the week-long National Day holiday, said sources with the Ministry of Commerce on Sunday. The retail sales were boosted as more Chinese people travel, gather for fami…
10/9/2007 5:49:00 PM
China´s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that over the past five years China´s industrial economy has been developing in a healthy, fast and steady way amid structural adjustment, and the country is in the midway of industrialization. In its latest report, the NBS said tha…
10/8/2007 5:17:00 PM
Recently, the Standing Committee of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) was informed about current World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations —more specifically, those dealing with aspects of cotton trade. At the WTO, the cotton issue is handled according to a two-track approach in r…
10/8/2007 10:19:00 AM
More than 100 U.S. multinationals, including big names such as Boeing, Microsoft and General Motors, urged the U.S. Congress to reject protectionist legislation against China. "Imposing unfair barriers to trade in the name of currency valuation or product safety is not a solution to the underlyi…
9/30/2007 10:46:00 AM
Vietnam´s garment makers opposed the United States´ import regime and wanted it to be quickly abolished, local newspaper Vietnam News on Friday quoted a Vietnamese deputy minister of industry and trade as saying. U.S. Customs figures proved that Vietnam had not dumped its garments…
9/30/2007 10:39:00 AM
China´s largest city Shanghai posted a GDP growth of 13 percent based on a rise of 9.6 percent in fixed assets investment in the first half of 2007, thanks to the strategic adjustment of economic structure, statistics from the municipal government show. The tertiary industry contributed mor…
9/30/2007 10:37:00 AM
International retail giants Wal-mart, Carrefour and Metro have told China´s Ministry of Commerce that they are satisfied with the quality of Chinese products, more than 99 percent of which meet standards, ministry spokesman Wang Xinpei said on Thursday. The qualification rate reached 100 pe…
9/29/2007 10:49:00 AM
About five hundred thousand of international purchasing agents will receive the invitation letter to participate in the China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO hereinafter) to be held in October in 2007 in Nanning city, Guangxi province, China. The great effort has been made to have 100 thousand of international pu…
9/28/2007 6:00:00 PM
China´s total fabric output reached 4.285 billion square meters in August, reflecting 10.4 percent year-on-year growth. 11.1 percent year-on-year gains in 100-percent cotton fabric brought output to 2.399 billion square meters, pushing cotton market share to 55.99 percent, which is up from …
