China, Israel Hold 8th Round of FTA Talks

China held its eighth round of free trade agreement negotiations with Israel March 20-23, the Ministry of Commerce announced, according to an unofficial translation. The talks centered on trade in goods, rules of origin, customs procedures and trade facilitation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, trade remedies, e-commerce, environmental regulations, intellectual property rights competition, government procurement and dispute settlement, the ministry said. The FTA talks started in 2016.