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22-Jul-2009
Mainichi
One of the first ever group of Indonesian nursing trainees — dispatched to Japan last year based on the Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement — has dropped out, it has been learned.
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22-Jul-2009
ForUm
Ukraine and Libya are interested in boosting bilateral goods turnover, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Secretary of the General People’s Committee of Libya al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi said at a meeting of the Ukraine-Libya Cooperation Commission in Kyiv on Monday.
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22-Jul-2009
Reuters
A free trade agreement between Peru and Singapore will take effect on Aug. 1, the first pact between the resource-rich Latin American nation and Asia, Peruvian Trade & Tourism Minister Martin Perez said on Wednesday.
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22-Jul-2009
Dow Jones
Australia’s trade minister said Monday he doesn’t expect the ongoing detention of an Australian employee of Rio Tinto PLC to have lasting implications for economic relations between Australia and China.
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21-Jul-2009
Grassroots International
tThe new law establishes a legal framework to regulate the participation of transnational companies and help local organizations and governments to restore local food culture and peasant agriculture despite the CAFTA-DR "free" trade agreement
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20-Jul-2009
Agweek
US wheat growers may lose more than 50 percent of $165 million per year in sales to Colombia if Congress does not approve the US-Colombia free trade agreement, US Wheat Associates and Colombian millers said at a July 14 news conference.
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20-Jul-2009
WorldPress
Besides a racist propaganda campaign and violent repression, the Pervian government has tried highly suspect legal mechanisms to disarticulate indigenous power.
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20-Jul-2009
WSJ
On present trends, most of Europe will soon have lower income tax rates than most of America. And now the European Union is stealing another competitive march on Washington, this time on a free trade deal with the world’s 13th largest economy, fast-growing South Korea.
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19-Jul-2009
Reuters
The International Transport Workers’ Federation called on its 4.5 million members on Friday to boycott ships flying the Honduran flag to protest the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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19-Jul-2009
VOV News
James Moran, Director for Asia of the Directorate General for External Relations of the European Commission and head of the EU delegation said this regarding the fourth round of talks on the signing of a Partnership Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between Vietnam and EU.
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19-Jul-2009
Dawn
It’s been a long time coming. But last week in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and the European Union finally initialled an ambitious cooperation pact aimed at revitalising a so-far uninspiring and lacklustre relationship.
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19-Jul-2009
Bloomberg
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said his country won’t keep negotiating a commercial agreement with the European Union until the trade bloc complies with World Trade orders to cut duties on Ecuadorean bananas.
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19-Jul-2009
Chosun Ilbo
After concluding free trade talks with the European Union, Korea is eyeing the Gulf Cooperation Council as its next FTA partner
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19-Jul-2009
Bangkok Post
The Milk For Thai Club forecasts dairy farming will be hit hard if the government does not seriously help farmers before signing free trade area (FTA) agreements on dairy products with Australia and other countries.
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17-Jul-2009
Business Recorder
Alber and Geiger, a European Union lobbying firm comprising of former high ranking officials, has offered its services to facilitate Pakistan for a free trade agreement (FTA), sources in Commerce Ministry told Business Recorder.
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17-Jul-2009
The Economic Times
The text of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to be signed between India and ASEAN has been finalised.
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16-Jul-2009
LiveMint
The treaty includes trade in goods and services as well as investments. It also contains chapters on competition and intellectual property rights. I
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16-Jul-2009
Reuters
The US government will get tough with governments that don’t live up to trade deals, including those with substandard labor practices, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk was set to announce on Thursday.
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16-Jul-2009
ITN
A position paper published by the Government of South Africa takes a critical posture towards the country’s bilateral investment treaties (BITs).
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15-Jul-2009
DNA
Instead of stopping the West and multinational drugmakers in their efforts to block India’s low-cost generic drugs exports, the government is helping their cause by aggressively pursuing free trade agreements (FTAs) with developed economies — agreements that could further hamper the world’s access to such drugs.
