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22-Sep-2010
IPS
The beleaguered Southern African Customs Union (SACU) has to face up to serious challenges at its upcoming heads of state meeting in October.
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22-Sep-2010
Kyodo News
Japan’s new trade minister Akihiro Ohata said Tuesday he hopes to move toward considering joining a planned multilateral free-trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region that is looking to include the United States.
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22-Sep-2010
Fast Company
In some countries, up to 90% of children with AIDS are dependent on India’s cheap, generic drugs.
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22-Sep-2010
Reuters
South Korea is waiting for a US proposal to resolve auto industry concerns over a free trade agreement but is confident of striking a deal before President Barack Obama arrives in Seoul in November for a Group of 20 summit.
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22-Sep-2010
“Cargill absolutely supports the free-trade agreements,” Devry Boughner, director of international business relations for Cargill, said today in a telephone interview.
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22-Sep-2010
CCIC
Bilateral Investment Treaties make up one part of a global investment regime that governs how countries and their governments can regulate foreign-owned assets. Canada is a major promoter of these instruments.
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21-Sep-2010
A three-day seminar on “Pakistan’s Free Trade Agreement with China” has started here on Monday.
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20-Sep-2010
Chile and Vietnam envisage enormous potential to strengthen their bilateral ties, especially in economics and trade, affirmed the newly-appointed Chilean Ambassador to Vietnam.
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20-Sep-2010
New Vision
The European Union is frustrated at the slow pace of the conclusion of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the East African Community member states according to Harvey Rouse, head of the political and trade section at the EU Mission to Uganda.
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20-Sep-2010
Canadian Press
Canada’s ambassador to the United States has issued a stern warning to the most powerful congressional leaders on Capitol Hill over a protectionist piece of legislation that “will have a disproportionally negative impact on intertwined US-Canada supply chains and on jobs in both our countries.”
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20-Sep-2010
Stock & Land
Australian businesses feel they are getting little benefit from free trade agreements negotiated by the federal government and think there are better ways to help companies competing abroad.
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20-Sep-2010
BusinessWorld
The Philippines may have to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal if it wants a trade pact with the United States, a visiting American official said on Friday.
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20-Sep-2010
DNP+
We request organizations and individuals across the world to join Delhi Network of Positive People in a sign on letter to issue a appeal to the Indian government to ’not sign on’ to any IP provisions in the FTA negotiations.
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19-Sep-2010
Watertown Daily TimesA
One possible outcome of the free-trade agreement between the European Union and South Korea is that terms such as "mozzarella" and "feta" are off-limits for US producers selling cheese to Korea.
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19-Sep-2010
IPS
African governments’ ambitious plan for a tripartite free trade area (FTA), stretching from South Africa to Egypt, could be more realistic than getting existing ineffective regional customs unions on the continent to work.
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18-Sep-2010
Trade experts say that Vietnamese enterprises cannot take full advantage of multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements (FTA) to boost export because they lack initiative.
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18-Sep-2010
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif urged Richard Holbrooke to support Pakistan’s efforts to finalize a Free Trade Agreement with the US and to encourage greater American investment in Pakistan, especially in its energy and power sectors, as these will have a direct bearing on the country’s economy.
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18-Sep-2010
A landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed this week in Brussels will boost Irish exports to Asia, according to the Minister for Trade and Commerce, Billy Kelleher TD.
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18-Sep-2010
The Hindu
’FTAs may close tap on affordable drugs’
India’s ability to produce low-cost generics may be impacted, says UN-backed agency’.
By P.T. Jyothi Datta
18 September 2010
Mumbai, Sept. 16/In a rare public endorsement of a concern gaining momentum in various quarters, Unitaid has expressed concerns about the impact Free Trade Agreements would have on India’s capacity to make affordable medicines for domestic and overseas markets.
The United-Nations supported Unitaid is an (...)
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17-Sep-2010
European Commission
"The agreement will reinforce the position of European ag exporters on the Moroccan market, representing a major offensive interest for the EU," says the European Commission
