China signs 210 mln US dollars import agreement with Turkey
29/8/2007 15:26
A Chinese commercial delegation signed import agreements worth US$210
million with Turkish businessmen in Turkey's largest city Istanbul
yesterday.
The agreements were mainly involved in the fields of wool, copper,
chrome, lead and polyacrylonitrile.
Turkish Deputy Secretary of Foreign Trade
Ulker Guzel expressed hope that Chinese and Turkish companies could expand
cooperation in sectors such as tourism and contracting services.
Chinese Vice
Minister of Commerce Ma Xiuhong, head of the delegation, said China's imports
from Turkey reached 500 million U. S. dollars during the first 7 months of 2007,
up about 80 percent over the same period of last year.
She said China would
import more goods from Turkey and by the end of this year, the import figure
would exceed US$1 billion for the first time.
Bilateral trade volume was
about 8 billion in 2006 while the import figure of China only accounted for five
percent of the total.
The agreement were signed between a total of eight
Chinese firms from both public and private sector and 14 Turkish companies from
the Turkish Exporters' Assembly.
Xinhua
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