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19-Mar-2013
PNN
Palestinian official news agency WAFA reports that European parliamentarians wrote European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton last week calling on her to suspend the Association Agreement with Israel because of the latter’s violation of the terms of the agreement.
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19-Mar-2013
Live Mint
The aggressive push by India’s tax department to increase revenue has prompted several multinational companies to informally seek the views of lawyers and consultants about invoking bilateral investment promotion and protection agreements to resist the government’s demands for more money.
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19-Mar-2013
TechDirt
Some media are reporting talk of Mexico and Turkey joining the EU-US FTA.
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19-Mar-2013
China Post
Germany and the entire European Union are ready to provide maximum cooperation for conclusion of the Thai-EU free-trade agreement in two years’ time, for a win-win scenario for both parties, German Ambassador to Thailand Rolf Schulze said.
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18-Mar-2013
Yomiuri Shimbun
How would livelihoods in Japan be changed by membership in the TPP? View from the Yomiuri Shimbun
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16-Mar-2013
Eurogroup for animals
Eurogroup for Animals released a brief insight into different ways how the EU and Morocco could include animal welfare in their Free Trade Agreement discussions.
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15-Mar-2013
Tax-News
At the close of the 10-day 16th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations on March 13, 2013, in Singapore, the Office of the United States Trade Representative reported that the talks had been placed on an accelerated track toward conclusion of the trade agreement this year.
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15-Mar-2013
Bloomberg
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may sacrifice barriers protecting Japan’s beef and wheat farmers as he joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, said a former government adviser on farm policy.
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15-Mar-2013
Hankyoreh
One year after the South Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) took effect, many issues between the two sides remain unaddressed.
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15-Mar-2013
AFP
If Europe can secure a free trade deal with Canada, it would lay the groundwork for a planned, much larger accord with the United States, French and Canadian leaders said Thursday.
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15-Mar-2013
The Nation
Thailand’s Parliament yesterday endorsed the Thai-Chilean free trade agreement, which will take effect in the fourth quarter
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15-Mar-2013
AFP
Japan will announce its participation in talks to forge a US-backed free trade deal on Friday, an official said, giving the pact much-needed economic clout, but possibly angering farmers at home.
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14-Mar-2013
Yonhap
The US ambassador to Seoul raised the possibility of making changes to the free trade agreement with South Korea, saying a renegotiation would be possible if South Korea wants to do so.
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14-Mar-2013
AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission has issued an urgent appeal to support protestors against the EU-India FTA and needs your help
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14-Mar-2013
The team behind bilaterals.org is very pleased to announce that we have just completed a major cycle of updates to the site, including the launch of our Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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14-Mar-2013
The Nation
British enterprises, particularly from the agriculture and agri-technology sectors, are expected to take advantage of the upcoming free-trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Thailand.
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14-Mar-2013
Relaunch of bilaterals.org
The team behind bilaterals.org is very pleased to announce that we have just completed a major cycle of updates to the site, including the launch of our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Read more...
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12-Mar-2013
New Medical
The TPP negotiators are making decisions that will affect at least 600 million people, and potentially hundreds of millions more, in complete secrecy, and this is unacceptable.
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12-Mar-2013
LiveMint
The much-delayed free trade agreement between India and the European Union may finally get through if the government is able to amend the law to allow greater foreign investment in Indian insurance firms.
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12-Mar-2013
Japan’s largest farm group rallied Tuesday in Tokyo to protest against the government’s entry into the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks.