The guide deals with U.S.-China relations in general; the general trade situation between the two countries and specific issues such as trade disputes and trade measures; the U.S. trade deficit with China; U.S. trade and Chinese state-owned enterprises, assessment of the market and non-market economy, and competitiveness; China`s monetary policy; and investments between the United States and China. Statistical resources, selected journals and databases are also provided. Also included are links to research in the Library of Congress catalog that allow users to find additional works on the subject. Select the topics you want to search for from the list of Library of Congress subject lines included in each section to create a direct link to the catalog and automatically search for the selected topic. Not all relevant topic titles have been included, but should be a good place to start. For further assistance, please contact a librarian. "The Comprehensive Regional Economic Partnership will certainly contribute to global free trade because of its size," he said. List of agreements between two states, two blocs or one bloc and one state. Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) shakes hands with Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 21, 2015. [Xinhua] China maintains 16 free trade agreements (FTAs) with its trade and investment partners and negotiates or implements eight other free trade agreements.

China`s FHA partners are ASEAN, Singapore, Pakistan, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Iceland, Switzerland, Maldives, Mauritius, Georgia, Korea, Australia, Hong Kong and Macau. In 2002, when THE CAFTA was just beginning, bilateral trade amounted to $54.8 billion. In 2014, the volume of bilateral trade increased to $480.4 billion, multiplied by 9 over the past 12 years with an annual growth of 20%. Negotiations began in 2005 and were significantly accelerated after Chinese President Xi paid a state visit to Australia in November 2014. The agreement was signed on 17 June 2015. Afghanistan has concluded bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:[1] Due to the pandemic, the signing of the agreement on Sunday was unusual, with separate ceremonies held in each of the 15 member countries, all linked by video. Each country`s trade minister took turns signing a separate copy of the pact while his head of state or government stood nearby and watched. The 7. In April 2008, then Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark witnessed the signing of the Sino-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Beijing, which entered into force on 1 October 2008. The agreement is the first comprehensive free trade agreement that China has ever signed, as well as the first free trade agreement that China has signed with an industrialized country.

China is Australia`s largest trading partner, with the reciprocal flow of goods and services exceeding $135 billion in 2014. The prospect of China forging closer economic ties with its neighbors has raised concerns in Washington. President Barack Obama`s response was the T.P.P., which had extensive regulation on services, intellectual property, independent unions, and environmental protection. He also called for limiting government support to industries that serve as both a challenge for China and an incentive for Beijing to loosen its grip on its economy, the second largest in the world. Biden said he would wait to negotiate new trade deals. He wants to focus his energy on the pandemic, economic recovery, and investment in U.S. manufacturing and technology. Chinese Trade Minister Gao Hucheng (left) and Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb (right) pose for photos with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott after the signing of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement at the National Gallery in Canberra on June 17, 2015. [Xinhua] Turkey has concluded bilateral and multilateral agreements with: An interactive list of bilateral and multilateral free trade instruments can be found on the TREND Analytics website. [59] Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and ASEAN heads of state and government attend a signing ceremony of the protocol amending the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between China and ASEAN in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, november 22, 2015. [Xinhua] Premier Li Keqiang, China`s second-top official after Xi Jinping, oversaw the event in Beijing. In a statement published by state media, he called the pact "a victory for multilateralism and free trade." Even more striking, the pact does not include India, another regional giant.

The New Delhi government withdrew from the negotiations in July. China had rejected India`s calls for a more ambitious pact that would have done much more to link the region`s economies, including trade in services and trade in goods. Switzerland (which has a customs union with Liechtenstein, which is sometimes included in agreements) has concluded bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:[41] China and New Zealand formally began free trade negotiations in December 2004 and concluded talks in December 2007 after 15 rounds of negotiations. Chinese President Xi Jinping (3rd from left) will meet his Singaporean counterpart Tony Tan Keng Yam (4th from right) in Singapore on November 6, 2015. [Xinhua] He Weiwen, a former official at the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing and a leading Chinese trade policy expert, said the deal nevertheless represented a big step forward. For some trade experts, this new agreement shows that the rest of the world will not wait for the United States. The European Union has also continued trade negotiations at a frantic pace. If other countries sign new agreements, U.S. exporters could gradually lose ground. For fully multilateral agreements (not included below), see: List of multilateral free trade agreements.

After eight years of talks, China and 14 other countries, from Japan to New Zealand to Myanmar, on Sunday officially signed one of the world`s largest regional free trade agreements, a pact beijing designed in part as a counterweight to US influence in the region. The Free Trade Agreement between China and Costa Rica entered into force on 1 August 2011. Negotiations on a free trade agreement began in January 2009 following then-Chinese President Hu Jintao`s visit to the Central American country in November 2008. After more than a year of intensive negotiations, the two sides signed the free trade agreement in April 2010. China has bilateral investment treaties with more than 100 countries and economies, including Austria, the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom. China`s bilateral investment treaties include expropriation, arbitration, most-favoured-nation treatment and repatriation of investment products. They are generally considered weaker than the investment treaties that the United States wants to negotiate. The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) was established on 1. It was completed in January 2010 and since then, China has become ASEAN`s largest trading partner, while ASEAN has become China`s third largest trading partner.

The China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) officially entered into force in July 2007. The two countries signed the agreement on 24 November 2006. Negotiations began in April 2005 during the visit of former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Pakistan. "While the United States is currently focusing on domestic issues, including the need to fight the pandemic and rebuild its economy and infrastructure, I`m not sure the rest of the world will wait for America to put its house in order," said Jennifer Hillman, senior researcher in international trade and political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations. "I think it will take reactive measures to what China is doing." The United States and China have reached a historic and enforceable agreement on a phase one trade agreement that requires structural reforms and other changes in China`s economic and trading system in the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture, financial services, currency and currency. Phase One agreement also includes a commitment by China to make significant additional purchases from the United States.