Sentences with phrase «trade ministry»

Trade Minister Kim Hyun - chong will meet representatives from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama in Seoul on Wednesday to sign five separate bilateral agreements which will eliminate duties on about 95 percent of traded goods and services, South Korea's trade ministry said in an e-mailed statement.

A state - backed fund, the Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ), has been at the center of trade ministry efforts to forge a successful bid that will keep the highly prized unit under domestic control.

A unit of Thai Beverage, Vietnam Beverage Company, has expressed interest in buying about 51 percent of Vietnam's state - owned brewer Saigon Beer - Alcohol - Beverage Corp, widely known as Sabeco, the country's trade ministry said on Dec. 13.

The 1.0 percent increase in production from December compared with economists» median forecast for a 1.5 percent rise and followed a 2.4 percent gain in the previous month, which was the biggest gain since 2011, the trade ministry data showed.

The trade ministry raised its assessment of industrial output, saying output has stopped falling and some areas are picking up.

The trade ministry and DBJ did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

One source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday that Western Digital was still in talks with the trade ministry over their consortium.

The weakening of the yen and the euro has hurt Korean exporters from carmakers to machinery manufacturers, the trade ministry said.

It has now emerged that since May 1995, the trade ministries of the OECD countries have been secretly negotiating the text of a treaty designed to achieve the same ends as the MIA, known as the MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment).

In a furious reaction however, the trade ministry in a statement accused the MP of telling lies and playing politics with his claims.

Asawase MP Muntaka Mubarak was the first to blow the whistle on what he viewed as illegal charges imposed on the businesses by the trade ministry.

The Asawase MP built a case that it was unethical for the Trade ministry to partner a private organisation that promised to give its sponsors a dinner opportunity with the president if they paid up to $ 100,000.

He showed inconsistencies in the Trade ministry's responses which first denied playing any role in designing the sponsorship packages but later admitted it collected monies from expatriates and Ghanaians on behalf of the private event body, Millenium Excellence Foundation (MEF).