APEC agrees to work on FTAAP
By Zhang Yunbi and Li Xiang | China Daily | Updated: 2014-11-12 08:12
Experts say different trade pacts in region are not mutually exclusive
In what Chinese President Xi Jinping called a "historic step", Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation members agreed on Tuesday to launch an effort to build a regional free trade framework.
Leaders of the 21 member economies agreed in Beijing to start work on the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. Xi praised the agreement as a show of APEC's will to advance regional integration.
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