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21-Mar-2011
NZ Herald
Talks on a free trade agreement between the European Union and New Zealand would be premature at this point, says EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht.
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21-Mar-2011
Huffington Post
With the Republicans and the Obama administration attempting to rush headlong into a new trade agreements with Korea, and possibly also with Panama and Colombia, it is incumbent on Americans to apply a bit of empiricism. How have our past trade agreements worked out? Above all, how’s the grand-daddy of them all, NAFTA, doing?
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21-Mar-2011
JoongAng Daily
Jim Lim, the newly appointed chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Korea, or AustChamKorea, expects the free trade agreement between Korea and Australia to be signed in the first half of this year.
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21-Mar-2011
USTR
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21-Mar-2011
Bloomberg
The US and Brazil signed a trade and economic cooperation agreement which is considered "among the first steps on the road to a free-trade agreement".
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19-Mar-2011
Taipei Times
Taiwan has been informed that the import ban on US beef products containing ractopamine residue could have repercussions for the nation’s long-standing request to be included in the US visa-waiver program
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19-Mar-2011
Reuters
US President Obama hopes to lay the groundwork for more trade with Brazil when he visits there this weekend, with announcements of a framework for negotiating future trade deals and a new round of US-backed financing for American companies bidding on Brazilian projects, foreign trade sources said Thursday.
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19-Mar-2011
Colombia Reports
More than 200 non-governmental organizations sign a manifesto calling on the European Union to strike down its free trade agreement with Colombia, EFE reported Wednesday.
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19-Mar-2011
All eyes are on the EU-India trade agreement, and the repercussions it will have on access to medicines in India and other developing countries. At the same time, the EU is in the process of negotiating other trade agreements that could harm or hinder access to medicines, such as this week’s negotiations between the EU and the Mercosur countries.
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18-Mar-2011
Dong-a Ilbo
Koreas free trade agreements with the US and the European Union, which Seoul hopes to ratify by this years first half, face unexpected obstacles to parliamentary ratification.
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18-Mar-2011
Sify
Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma today expressed for an early conclusion of Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) with Nigeria.
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18-Mar-2011
Dow Jones
Ecuador’s National Assembly has approved a request by President Rafael Correa to end bilateral investment-promotion and protection agreements with France and Sweden.
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18-Mar-2011
EFE
El grupo de defensa de los derechos humanos Human Rights Watch celebró hoy la iniciativa presentada por seis miembros del Congreso de EE.UU. para vincular la ratificación del TLC con Colombia a mejoras en los estándares de derechos humanos.
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17-Mar-2011
IP Watch
An alleged official document leaked last week showed that the United States is taking the lead in escalating intellectual property rights enforcement in negotiations for a regional trade agreement among countries bordering the Pacific Ocean.
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15-Mar-2011
Amid concerns expressed by the Indian industry, the government today said in Parliament that it will protect the interest of the domestic drug industry while finalising the free trade pact with European Union.
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15-Mar-2011
The fate of the multilateral Doha Round talks to come up with an outline agreement for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by July rests in the hands of both developed and developing economies, said European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht.
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15-Mar-2011
Nepal is proposing removal of about 260 items from existing sensitive list of goods for imports at the upcoming meeting of South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) scheduled to be held in the last week of March in Kathmandu.
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15-Mar-2011
The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States (CAFTA-DR) Free Trade Commission has approved several changes to CAFTA-DR rules of origin that are expected to benefit the Western Hemisphere textile/apparel supply chain.
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15-Mar-2011
After more than a year since the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) became operational, it is now approaching consolidation.
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15-Mar-2011
The government is likely to liberalise the foreign direct investment (FDI) norms for entry of foreign companies that have existing joint ventures or technical collaborations in India. The new policy, to be implemented from April 1, may drop the requirement of no-objection certificate (NOC) that foreign firms need to set up a separate entity.
