China's Trade
Promotion Council to
Open Office in Costa
Rica
China's Council for the
Promotion of
International Trade (CCPIT)
will set up its
representative office in
Costa Rica by the end of
2007, the vice president
of the council said on
Tuesday.
The office, the first of
its kind in Central
America, will play an
important part in
promoting trade
relations between China
and Costa Rica, as well
as in communications
between entrepreneurs of
the two countries, Vice
President of CCPIT Wang
Jinzhen told a press
conference.
Wang is in Costa Rica as
part of the first
Chinese commercial
delegation to visit
after the two countries
established diplomatic
ties on June 1, 2007.
A four-day exhibition of
Chinese goods will also
be unveiled in San José
today and Chinese trade
officials and experts
will meet their Costa
Rican counterparts on a
trade forum the same
day.
According to statistics
from China's General
Administration of
Customs, trade volume
between China and Costa
Rica reached us$2.1
billion dollars in 2006,
87 percent higher than
that of 2005, while the
trade volume between the
two sides witnessed a
65-percent rise in the
first half of this year.
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