The United States hopes to use a proposed regional free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific and another with the European Union to reshape global rules for trade, Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday. "Our goal is for high standards for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to enter the bloodstream of the global system and improve the rules and norms," Biden said in a speech at the U.S. Export-Import Bank's annual meeting.

In his opening remarks to the 2nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council (ABAC), Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan urged its members to take advantage of the emerging regional trade frameworks – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Trade negotiations between the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU) will be resumed after the upcoming Paraguayan presidential election, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said Thursday. There are clear political and commercial interests between the two trade blocs, and new offers are to be presented by the end of the year, the minister noted.

Another step toward launching negotiations on a European Union-United States trade agreement has been made as the Office of the US Trade Representative filed a request for comments on the deal and announced a forthcoming public hearing.In what would be the biggest bilateral trade deal ever negotiated, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TT

WELLINGTON, April 4 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand will be more focused on securing a high-quality agreement rather than sticking to a deadline to conclude the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, said New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.At the East Asia Summit in Cambodia in November last year, U.S.

(Reuters) - The United States would welcome South Korea joining negotiations on an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, a senior U.S. trade official said on Wednesday, as Washington continues to weigh Japan's bid to enter the same set of talks."We do think it's natural and logical for Korea to join this negotiation.

One of the least discussed and least reported issues is the Obama administration’s effort to bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to the forefront, an oppressive plurilateral US-led free trade agreement currently being negotiated with several Pacific Rim countries.Six hundred US corporate advisors have negotiated and had input into the TPP, and t