{"id":176114,"date":"2010-01-13T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1044799"},"modified":"2010-01-13T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:21:58","slug":"ethiopia-china-to-increase-trade-volume-to-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/176114","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, China to increase trade volume to $3 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nAPA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia and China agreed on Tuesday to increase their trade volume to $ 3 billion in the next six years.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries agreed to strengthen their volume of trade as part of a new Chinese initiative to boost their cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the two sides agreed to double the volume of trade exchange to three $3 billion by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that Chinese Foreign Direct Investment to Ethiopia has reached $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia and China have also signed an agreement enabling China to offer preferential market access to Ethiopian exports to China.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian Trade and Industry Minister, Girma Birru and the visiting Chinese Commerce Minister, Chen Deming signed the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agreement, the new agreement covers more than 95 per cent of Ethiopia\u0092s export to China, which is expected to increase the two countries\u0092 volume of trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Trade exchange between the two countries has been growing by 35.6 per cent annually on average in particular over the past eight years,\u0094 said Birru.<\/p>\n<p>He also indicated that some 1000 Chinese projects have been registered to invest in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>\nDT\/daj\/APA<br \/>\n2010-01-13<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia and China agreed on Tuesday to increase their trade volume to $ 3 billion in the next six years. The two countries agreed to strengthen their volume of trade as part of a new Chinese initiative to boost their cooperation. Accordingly, the two sides agreed to double the volume of trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}