Saturday, April 28, 2007

Turkey looks to boost trade with Asia

"Turkey looks to boost trade with Asia

Turkey, one of the world's largest exporters and among the world's top 20 economies, says that it wants to dramatically increase trade with Thailand and the 10 Asean countries over the next couple of years.

"Trade with the Asia Pacific countries stands at about $23 billion, or a mere 3% of our overall global trade, and to me this is small. We need to grow this," said Kursad Tuzmen, Turkey's Minister of State for Foreign Trade. "

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