The ministry of commerce web site on January 4, news, China is moving forward multiple free trade talks, including the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP), China, Japan and South Korea, China - the GCC fta negotiations. The ministry of commerce, said in 2015, our country actively promote China, Japan and South Korea fta negotiation, fta negotiations with Sri Lanka and free trade in the second stage talks with Pakistan, also launched fta negotiations with the maldives, Georgia and upgrade fta negotiations with Singapore.
In 2016, the ministry of commerce will continue to be in accordance with the relevant requirements of the CPC central committee and the state council, in-depth implementation of the state council "about to speed up the implementation of several opinions of free trade area strategy, accelerating to construct based, radiation surrounding the" area ", and the global network of free trade area. At the same time, good work to implement the fta has came into effect, to help Chinese enterprises to better apply the fta preferential policies to promote China's foreign trade and investment cooperation.
Multilateral negotiations in the free trade area have accelerated
The ministry of commerce according to the latest figures, so far, China has signed and 14 the fta, involved in 22 countries and regions, trade partners all over Asia, Latin America, Oceania, Europe and other regions. These agreements are respectively between China and asean, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Pakistan, Iceland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Chile, Peru and costa rica the fta, the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao of the closer economic partnership arrangement (CEPA), as well as the mainland and Taiwan "cross-strait economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA).
It is worth noting that the china-asean fta upgrade negotiations will make new progress this year. The ministry of commerce said that the two sides are now working to push the china-asean free trade area to become effective as early as 2016. The protocol is based on the existing free trade zone in China to complete the first promotion agreement, the content covers trade in goods, trade in services, investment, customs cooperation and trade facilitation, economic and technological cooperation and other fields, is a rich, perfect and complement to the original agreement. The upgrade of the china-asean free trade zone, will provide the new power for economic development of both sides, promote realize the goal of the bilateral trade volume has reached $2020 in 1 trillion, and promote the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement negotiations and the asia-pacific free trade area construction process.
In addition, the RCEP negotiations are expected to end in 2016. RCEP negotiations launched in 2012, is currently under construction in Asia's largest free trade area, covers more than half of the world's population, economic and trade accounted for 30% of the world. The ministry of commerce said that in 2015, the negotiations had made positive progress with the Chinese side. At the east Asia summit in November 2015, the leaders of the RCEP reached a consensus to end the talks in 2016.
The inland free trade area is expected to land
In addition to the FTZ, the construction of the free trade zone will be accelerated. The personage inside course of study says, the second batch of pilot reform experience have selected 21 items free trade area, eight innovation practice case, and report by the relevant departments under the state council, in the near future is expected to be approved and start to promote appropriate parts of the country. In order to speed up the promotion of these experiences, in the near future is expected to launch the third batch of pilot test area, free trade and strengthen internal, opening to the outside world, promote "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" period of economic growth.
Under the state council has issued the several opinions about to speed up the implementation of strategy of free trade zones, free trade pilot test area, continue to deepen the foreign free trade area has the commonness of the difficulty in the negotiations, the focus is, test on free trade zone in Shanghai first try first, through the pressure test in local area, and dissolve the risk prevention and control of accumulated experience, explore the best open mode.
Various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the near future "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in planning recommendations," released by the zhejiang, heilongjiang, sichuan, shaanxi, guizhou, gansu, guangxi, hainan and other places that active across experiment test free trade zone or free trade port area. For example, during the 13th five-year plan period, China (chengdu) will be actively set up a pilot area for free trade in China. Shandong province proposed to build the foundation for the accumulation of experience in the shandong free trade test area. Jiangsu, chongqing "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in planning proposal, though not to mention the construction of the free trade area, but there are media reports that fta scheme both are established and reported. A number of local fta schemes, including henan, shaanxi and sichuan, have been largely determined and are pending approval.
Analysts believe that a new batch of pilot is expected to free trade area, along the "area" as "opinions" put forward, and actively promote "neighbourhood" all the way along the free trade area, and actively with the countries along the "area", to build a free trade area, the formation of the area along the "big market, will be" in "all the way into smooth road, the road of trade, open the road.
