Free Trade
China signed a trade deal with ASEAN.
At the same time, Australia and New Zealand started the negotiation for a free trade deal with ASEAN. The aim of the negotiation is to significantly reduce trade barriers by 2016.
Read more about this topic: ASEAN Summit
Famous quotes containing the words free and/or trade:
“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)
“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixt you,—the trade drops at once: and this is the reason ... why travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,—owing to their [the natives’] suspicion ... that there is nothing to be extracted from the conversation ... worth the trouble of their bad language.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)