Turkey, China aim to boost bilateral trade to USD 50bn in five years.

By bne IntelliNews October 11, 2010
PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao in Ankara and signed several co-operations deals. PM Erdogan says that they aim to increase the bilateral trade from the current USD 17bn to USD 50bn within five years and to USD 100bn in 2020. Erdogan also asserts that Turkey and China agreed to use the lira and yuan, rather than dollars, in bilateral trade.

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