China keeps close farm produce trade ties with six ASEAN countries

China keeps close ties with six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the trade of agricultural products, with both import and export of the products accounting for more than 90 percent of the total with the whole of the ASEAN, industry sources said on Sunday.

The six countries are Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. The ten-member ASEAN also groups Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.

Last year, Malaysia and Indonesia became the sixth and eighth largest purchasers of Chinese agricultural products, buying 845 million and 613 million U.S. dollars, respectively, from China, said the sources with the organizing committee of the China-ASEAN Expo that opened here on Sunday in the southern China city of Nanning.