A free-trade agreement will top the agenda Friday and Saturday when President Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak hold their first summit.

China has signed a landmark free trade deal with New Zealand, and Cambodia will launch a national airline in cooperation with an Indonesian conglomerate.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told China it is important that he is able to express differing points of view on subjects like human rights.

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a plan to delay the hotly disputed Colombia free trade agreement.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says China and Australia have agreed to restart stalled negotiations on a free trade pact.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in Beijing on Monday the free trade agreement signed between China and New Zealand was of importance and profound significance.

China and New Zealand signed a free trade agreement, the first such pact between China and a developed country, on Monday.

President Bush has thanked the U.S. Congress for approving a free trade deal with Peru and is urging lawmakers to pass similar agreements with Colombia and Panama.

China and New Zealand will sign the Bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in April, the Ministry of Commerce announced in Beijing Thursday.

India and Hong Kong have initiated talks on a free trade agreement and plan to enter into a double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) to promote bilateral trade and investment.

The United States and South Korea signed a free trade agreement Saturday that could become Washington's biggest deal since the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement.

Several South American presidents meeting in Tarija, Bolivia, have agreed to start trade talks with the European Union. However, Thursday's summit of the Community of Andean Nations exposed differences among the leaders of the four-nation CAN.