What does CER stand for?

Trade ministers from Australia, New Zealand and Pacific island countries will meet in Brisbane for two days from Friday as negotiations are launched for the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER-Plus).

He voiced Tehran's readiness to have closer economic relations, particularly in the areas of science and technology as well as agricultural industries, with South American countries, the Islamic republic news agency reported.

The leaders also agreed to open negotiations on a Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations, a free trade agreement covering the 16 states, by November.

In Asia, the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Treaty Agreement (ANZERTA) is particularly far-reaching, requiring the parties to amend their national competition laws to ensure their full applicability to anticompetitive conduct or transactions that may affect either country.

The historic visit to India of the King of Saudi Arabia [King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz] and the initiative to seek closer economic relations with member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council has shifted the emphasis away from politics to economics in India's relations with the Arab world," Baru said.

Trans-Tasman offers The Corporations (NZ Closer Economic Relations) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2007 amended the Corporations Act by introducing a scheme to allow for the mutual recognition of the regulation and administration of securities offerings between Australia and foreign jurisdictions and was introduced as part of a series of initiatives to support closer economic relations between Australia and New Zealand.

The island hopes to benefit from tourism and closer economic relations with the economic powerhouse next door.

Ma, who defeated Democratic Progressive Party candidate Frank Hsieh by a 58-percent to 42-percent margin, will be Taiwan's first president to have campaigned for closer economic relations with communist mainland China.