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8-Jul-2009
BKK Post
The recent patenting of a Thai rice gene will pave the way for overseas firms to obtain copyrights of Thai biological and genetic resources, intellectual property rights experts and farmer advocates warn.
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8-Jul-2009
New Era
Not only is the European Union (EU) uncomfortable with Namibia’s ambiguity on interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), but it is also concerned about the possibility of a legal challenge over Namibia’s access to duty-free quota free since last year.
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8-Jul-2009
Islands Busines
Out of the nine resolutions made by trade ministers in the Pacific at their meeting in Samoa last month, seven were said to be concessions to their bigger neighbours of Australia and New Zealand.
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8-Jul-2009
PRIU
Sri Lanka and Kuwait successfully concluded negotiations on the proposed Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) between two countries. This will be Sri Lanka’s first ever IPPA with a Gulf country.
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8-Jul-2009
Joong Ang Daily
Korea and a group of six oil-producing Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, will hold a third round of free trade negotiations in Seoul this week, the trade ministry said yesterday.
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8-Jul-2009
Taiwan Today
A renowned Japanese scholar urged Tokyo to enhance bilateral trading ties with Taipei through inking a free trade agreement or establishing a multilateral economic cooperation framework that includes Taiwan.
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8-Jul-2009
Xinhua
The South Korea-European Union free trade agreement is at the final stage of negotiations, Yonhap reported Wednesday.
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8-Jul-2009
Business Standard
Even the most optimistic amongst those involved in the process admit the talks to be in a deadlock that neither side has the political will to break.
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8-Jul-2009
Anarkismo.net
Analysis of the third round of egotiations of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru and Colombia).
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7-Jul-2009
Nazret.com
The Ethiopian Government is debating whether to sign the EPA with the EU, as it has concerns about the effect it will have on its fragile industries. Research shows negative implications for women, agriculture and manufacturing.
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6-Jul-2009
Politico
President Barack Obama keeps punting on the touchy issue of free trade — and it’s driving both opponents and supporters just a little bit crazy. The mixed message on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is a case in point.
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6-Jul-2009
Business Mirror
The public believes that the 600,000 hectare biodiesel deal between the Philippines and Japan is the Jpepa in action, says Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya)
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5-Jul-2009
The Namibian
The European Union has not agreed to include trade concessions made at the Swakopmund negotiations in the interim economic partnership agreement, but intends to look at the rules of origin provisions to prevent the breakup of the Southern African Customs Unions
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5-Jul-2009
VOV News
The European Union is moving ahead with negotiations on a free trade agreement with Vietnam. The process is expected to be completed by October 2010, as the pact is now an EU priority under the new Swedish presidency.
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2-Jul-2009
Border Fire
It is through trade deals such as NAFTA and initiatives like the SPP that corporations have further strengthened their power and grip over our lives.
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2-Jul-2009
Business World
The Philippine government could lose as much as P600 million annually in foregone revenues if tariffs on dairy products are removed under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA), an industry group said yesterday.
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1-Jul-2009
Straight.com
All senators but one were more concerned about investor protections for Canadian oil and mining companies, and why Canada did not get as good a deal as the US on pork and other agricultural exports, than they were with the fact that communities in the Amazon were protesting against the current and future presence of these very corporations on their ancestral lands.
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1-Jul-2009
Reuters
Gulf Arab states and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) moved toward building a trade bloc based on food and oil at a joint meeting of foreign ministers on Tuesday.
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30-Jun-2009
Upside Down World
Nation-wide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya — a defender of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA) and of Honduran workers and peasants, according to Via Campesina — be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression.
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30-Jun-2009
DN!
"I reiterate, we’re not negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union."