【2010－11－09】UK's Cameron seeks to double trade with China
[p=30, 2, left]LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was aiming to double bilateral trade with China to more than $100 billion a year by 2015 as he was due to arrive in Beijing on Tuesday at the head of a major trade mission.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Cameron, who is making his first official visit to China since taking office in May, said he wanted British exports to China to account for $30 billion of that sum.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Britain exported 7.7 billion pounds ($12.4 billion) in goods and services to China in 2009, while imports were 25.4 billion pounds - a yawning trade deficit with the world's second largest economy. [/p][p=30, 2, left]Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Cameron also called for progress on the Doha round of world trade talks. Cameron's 36- hour visit to China comes ahead of a G20 summit in South Korea later this week.[/p][p=30, 2, left]"Next year has to see the deal done, and that means action now," Cameron wrote of the stalled trade talks. Britain sees a trade deal as a way of kick-starting growth when budgets are tight and monetary policy options limited.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Cameron will focus on fostering trade ties during his stay in China but he said the two countries wanted to work together.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Cameron is heading Britain's biggest ever trade delegation to China, more than 40 business leaders seeking deals to fill order books while the government cuts spending at home.[/p][p=30, 2, left]A number of deals have already been announced including measures to boost sales of Scotch whisky and allow the import of breeding pigs into China.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Cameron said he hoped deals worth billions of dollars would be signed during the visit.[/p][p=30, 2, left]He said British companies had also secured $5 billion worth of business as part of a deal signed by China with Airbus in France last week.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Leading British retailer Tesco plans $3 billion of investment to build new shopping malls in China over 5 years.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Educational publisher Pearson also announced plans on Tuesday to open 50 new English language centres in China, creating up to 2,000 jobs.[/p] [b]回复 [url=http://bbs.tingroom.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=249835&ptid=115240]1#[/url] [i]davy10[/i] [/b]
[p=30, 2, left]what can we benefit from the increase of trade,it is worth considering... [/p] [b]回复 [url=http://bbs.tingroom.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=251657&ptid=115240]2#[/url] [i]tingroom[/i] [/b]
yes,what you considered is a question we must face seriously
after all,it's not so easy to get a winwin result.
from it ,i associate the visiting of OBAMA to India.
maybe, for India government,it is a good cooperation, but for the majority of Indian it's not a good news.
"U.S just want to take out money from India "one of my India colleague said to me
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