China will encourage coal imports and urge miners to boost output to increase supplies to power plants, China's economic planning agency said on June 2, as the world's largest energy consumer tackles ...

China may import 58 million metric tons of soybeans in the year beginning Oct. 1, up from an estimated 54.5 million tons in 2011, according to a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. China may p...

China is drafting a five-year plan to promote trade in its service sectors, with a projected service trade volume of 600 billion U.S. dollars by 2015, a senior official said on May 31, 2011. "Despite a...

In the January-April period of the current year, China spent RMB 85.7 billion ($13.2 billion) more than the same period 2010 on iron ore imports. Luo Bingsheng, vice chairman of the China Iron and Stee...

China spent 85.7 billion yuan more on imports of iron ore during the first four months of 2011 than it did during the same period of 2010, reports Shanghai Securities News, citing the China Iron and S...

Minnesota's 81,000 farm families stand to be some of the most valuable players in our 21st-century economy. This is because they are a primary lifeline connecting Minnesota's economy to the fast-growi...

Top coal consumer China should see import demand more than double in the next four years and India will be close behind as both hoover up supplies on international markets to feed rapidly growing powe...

Dairy products, meat and wood led the way to a record $4.7 billion of exports in April, with China gobbling up $126 million more than in the same month a year before. The whopping trade surplus of $1....

According to China Customs statistics, in the first quarter of 2011, China imported 9.704 million cubic meters of logs with a value of USD 1.74 billion, respectively up 26.8% and 36.4% year-on-year; t...

According to data from Chinese customs, China's polymer imports declined by 20.4% in April when compared with March, while the figure for April 2011 was also 12.9% lower than for the same month in 201...

New Zealand has agreed with Beijing it will double its exports to China in four years, the deputy prime minister told reporters in Hong Kong on May 26, 2011. "They're currently NZ$10 billion ($8 billio...

The First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, met a top level official from China as part of the Welsh Government's efforts to open up lamb exports to the country on May 26, 2011. The First Minister has h...

Growing trade ties between Kenya and China have opened a business line for private consultants who are cashing in by making travel arrangements for entrepreneurs visiting the country. The China Informa...

Vietnam attracts great attention from Chinese businesses, and in return, China sees Vietnam as potential market in the future, said Dao Ngoc Chuong, Deputy Head of the Asia-Pacific Market Division, un...

A statement jointly released by three ministries said that China encourages firms to import molybdenum and antimony ores and natural uranium. The 2011 list for imports issued by the National Developmen...

The first shipment of durians to China is expected to leave the country in July. Quoting Agriculture and Agro-based Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar, Nanyang Siang Pau reported that the Federal Agriculture...

China's refined copper imports dropped 16.6% in April from the previous month due to tight credit and cheaper domestic stocks although arrivals were higher than February's 27 month low. Data from the G...

China's exports of steel products in the second half of 2011 are likely to be at a similar level to the first half, Wang Jing, vice president of Chinese steelmill Baosteel, said. China, by far the wor...

Pakistan and China should put more emphasis on economic cooperation while maintaining the all-dimensional relationship, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said here on May 20, 2011. During an ...

Cambodian Ministry of Commerce and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) on May 24, 2011 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the development of bilateral trade. The M...