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10-Apr-2008
Welcome to the era of free trade, Chinese style.With Beijing’s completion of a bilateral free-trade pact Monday with New Zealand, its first with a developed country, the government has raised the tempo in its race to secure sources for commodities it deems critical to the growth of the economy: dairy products, food and raw materials.
10-Apr-2008
Meat and Livestock Australia managing director, David Palmer, has accompanied Federal Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke, in Korea to lend support for the commencement of free trade agreement negotiations between Australia and Korea.
10-Apr-2008
The executive secretary of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Tswelelopele Moremi has said the organisation has achieved a lot since the establishment of its secretariat.
10-Apr-2008
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters appears to have backed down on a threat to criticise the free trade agreement with China while he is overseas, promising the prime minister he will not denounce it publicly.
10-Apr-2008
U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday announced a plan to submit a U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement to the U.S. Congress for ratification, despite opposition from the Democratic Party, which is opposing FTA deals. Attention is now drawn to how the U.S. debate on the proposed Colombia deal will affect the Korea-U.S. FTA.
9-Apr-2008
While it is a US company, Exxon Mobil is entitled to invoke protection under the Netherlands-Venezuela Investment Promotion and Protection Convention, which guarantees resolution of Exxon Mobil’s dispute with Venezuela in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
9-Apr-2008
The presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that her husband, the former president, supports a free trade agreement with Colombia that she strenuously opposes.
9-Apr-2008
Despite rhetoric about their alleged benefits, the results of free trade agreements in Latin America are far from expected, experts attending the 7th Hemispheric Meeting of the Struggle against FTAs and for Integration of the Peoples said.
9-Apr-2008
The Rudd Government had to be more demanding than its predecessor when negotiating the automotive elements of free trade agreements, according to a leading car industry spokesman.
9-Apr-2008
The dispute between the White House and Democrats on the economy escalated sharply Wednesday over a surprise move by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to scrap the House’s rules and hold hostage a trade accord sought by the administration until President Bush agrees to more economic relief for Americans.
9-Apr-2008
Deputy Commerce Minister Wiroon Techapaiboon on Wednesday stated he was prepared to revise free trade area (FTA) agreements made with many countries to ensure that Thailand benefits most from them.
9-Apr-2008
The social movements stopped and crushed the Free Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA), said the president of the World Economics Study Center Osvaldo Martinez.
9-Apr-2008
Foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has said export of Bangladesh’s commodities to its South Asian neighbours is facing hurdles because of tariff barriers and restrictions.
9-Apr-2008
The Electoral Commission will consider a New Zealand First advertisement that appeared in daily papers this morning at their next meeting.
9-Apr-2008
Costa Rican lawmakers are divided over who makes a better investor in their country, the United States or the European Union, according to a recent questionnaire.
9-Apr-2008
Filipino exporters will have to wait until a new US president opens up more markets and expands trade with the country’s largest trading partner, with a bilateral free trade deal with the Philippines absent in the Bush administration’s final policy agenda.
9-Apr-2008
Japan and Vietnam started the seventh negotiation round on a bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), in Tokyo on April 7.
9-Apr-2008
The Caribbean region expects to sign a new trade agreement with the European Union by the end of June, Trinidad and Tobago’s trade and industry minister said on Tuesday.
9-Apr-2008
African Union (AU) trade and finance ministers want the recently initialled trade deals between the European Union (EU) and African countries to be re-negotiated in the context of a comprehensible full agreement saying it has contentious issues.
9-Apr-2008
The Commerce Ministry yesterday said it was forming a special unit to improve the public’s understanding of free-trade agreements (FTAs) and why they should be signed.
