Market access issues will be top of the agenda of the sixth round of free trade talks between China and Australia in September, said China's Vice-Minister of Commerce Yi Xiaozhun on Friday.

 

Substantial progress could be made during the talks that would focus on cargo trade and farm produce, said Yi.

 

In the just-concluded fifth round of talks in Beijing, the two sides agreed on the basic framework of a China-Australia Free Trade Zone Agreement.

 

The talks were initiated at the China-Australian Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum in Sydney in May last year.

 

(Xinhua News Agency May 27, 2006)