The Chinese and the US delegations to the 18th Sino-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade signed 14 cooperative agreements and memoranda Tuesday at the conclusion of the meeting.

These agreements and memoranda involve tourism, trade, medical equipment, food and feed safety, alcohol and tobacco, biofuel and bio-energy, agricultural technologies, AIDS prevention, environmental protection technology and financial supervision.

(Xinhua News Agency December 11, 2007)