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        "msgid": "asean-china-discuss-trade-pact-framework-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-10-16 00:00:00",
        "title": "ASEAN, China discuss trade pact framework",
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        "summary": "ASEAN, China discuss trade pact framework SINGAPORE: Officials from Southeast Asia and China have begun a two-day meeting to draft a framework for comprehensive economic relations including a free trade pact, Singapore said Tuesday. Representatives from the 10-member nations that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) were meeting with their Chinese counterparts, a Ministry of Trade and Industry spokesman said in a statement.",
        "content": "<p>ASEAN, China discuss trade pact framework<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Officials from Southeast Asia and China have begun<br>\na two-day meeting to draft a framework for comprehensive economic<br>\nrelations including a free trade pact, Singapore said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the 10-member nations that make up the<br>\nAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) were meeting with<br>\ntheir Chinese counterparts, a Ministry of Trade and Industry<br>\nspokesman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth round of talks was to discuss the framework to an<br>\nagreement on ASEAN-China comprehensive economic cooperation, he<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN and China have yet to agree on a list of products to be<br>\ncovered by early tariff cuts under an \"early harvest\" element in<br>\nthe proposed free trade agreement, which would cover nearly two<br>\nbillion people and will be the world's biggest free trade zone if<br>\nimplemented.<\/p>\n<p>Under this element, China should cut tariffs on ASEAN imports<br>\nas a goodwill gesture for the regional bloc which already has<br>\nlower tariff rates.  -- AFP<\/p>",
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