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6-May-2013
Washington Times
Trade officials on both sides of the Atlantic say there is a short "political window" to negotiate a free-trade agreement between the United States and European Union.
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6-May-2013
EFE
European Parliament members and Mexican federal lawmakers wrapped up their joint meeting and called for "far-ranging modifications" to the trade agreement signed in 1997 and implemented in 2000.
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6-May-2013
Business Standard
The Asian Development Bank today said the Indian government should start thinking about consolidating the flurry of free trade agreements it has implemented or is negotiating, by bringing all deals under one mega agreement.
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6-May-2013
DW
The European Parliament is now applying more pressure and has announced that if Cameroon and other sub-Saharan African countries do not sign by early 2014 that they will allow the EU free access to their markets, they will lose all trade benefits.
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6-May-2013
Business Standard
Traders and several union leaders from different states of India today participated in a rally to protest against the government’s initiatives like opening up retail sector for foreign investors and proposed India-EU FTA.
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3-May-2013
The main opposition party, Bharatiya Janata Party and Left parties joined hands to demand that union government should discuss the crucial free trade agreement with European Union before a final decision is taken by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
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3-May-2013
NACLA
On April 23, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago visited Canada to deliver her pitch to make the Canada-CARICOM free trade agreement a reality.
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3-May-2013
Law 360
The US trade representative asked the US International Trade Commission on Tuesday to investigate the likely economic effects of allowing duty-free imports of products from Japan, which just recently joined the ongoing talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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3-May-2013
Economic Times
India and the European Union could consider the option of signing a bilateral trade deal without the contentious issues when their chief negotiator meet on May 15, a senior commerce department official told ET.
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2-May-2013
FIDH
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisation, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), would like to ask the European Union to conduct an impact assessment that adequately encompasses the human rights situation before continuing the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement launched in March 2013 with Vietnam.
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30-Apr-2013
Farmers Weekly
EU egg producers have lobbied MEPs for fair trade, not free trade, highlighting that the egg industry would be disadvantaged if it isn’t given special protected status in any future trade agreements.
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30-Apr-2013
Nacla
US support for the peace process would imply important changes in its policy toward the militarization of Colombia, its failed war on drugs, and a revision of its Free Trade Agreements that would allow the small peasants and subsistence economy to survive.
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30-Apr-2013
DW
After a vote to block it failed this week, Canada’s controversial investment treaty with China could be ratified any day now. The government says it protects Canadian investments in China. Critics call it a sell-out.
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30-Apr-2013
Al Jazeera
The US-EU free trade pact and TPP are about securing regulatory gains for major corporate interests, writes Dean Baker.
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26-Apr-2013
Japan Times
“We will not handle these sensitivities in agriculture, autos or whatever, by exclusions from trade liberalization,” NZ trade negotiator Tim Groser told the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.
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26-Apr-2013
Bangkok Post
A misleading web page promoting the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations indicates that Thailand is participating, when in fact Bangkok is staying away from the TPP at this point.
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26-Apr-2013
Troy Media
There are many reasons why Prime Minister Stephen Harper should walk away from the CETA negotiations. Most relate to the ways that CETA is not about trade at all but about making dubious policy reforms that constrain our economic, social and environmental policy options in the future.
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26-Apr-2013
Reuters
The United States is reviewing trade relations with Burma in a move that could end import duties on thousands of goods from the Southeast Asian country
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26-Apr-2013
News 360
Bangladesh says it is ready to start discussions with Sri Lanka to strike a Free Trade Agreement between the two nations to improve two way trade, announced the Island’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
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26-Apr-2013
Reuters
European Union lawmakers have backed French demands to exempt culture from a proposed free-trade pact between Europe and the United States, keeping Paris on side and raising the chances that the talks can start on time.
