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Article: China: China-ASEAN free trade area to be completed on schedule.
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- August 7, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
The China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Area would be completely operative in 2010 as scheduled, a senior official from the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
"The free trade zone will cover a population of 1.9 billion and involve about 6 trillion U.S. dollars in gross domestic product," Lu Kejian, director of the ministry's Department of Asian Affairs, said at the opening of the fourth Pan Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China.
The free trade area project was first brought up in 2002,and completion set down for next year. Ma ...