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6-Oct-2012
Twenty-five years ago this week, the signing of the Canada – U.S. free-trade agreement (FTA) sparked one of the most passionate political debates in Canadian history.
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4-Oct-2012
Viet Nam News
The first negotiations on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Viet Nam and the European Union are scheduled to open this month.
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3-Oct-2012
infojustice
Health advocates have asked the EU not to include data exclusivity requirements in the “Deeply Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement” that is being negotiated between the EU and Moldova.
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3-Oct-2012
Colombia Report
China and Colombia begin their first steps toward a free trade agreement as well as sign several other trade agreements further promoting trade between the two countries.
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3-Oct-2012
SME Times
The German envoy to India Wednesday said the business communities of both countries have shown tremendous interest in completing the India-European Union free trade agreement.
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3-Oct-2012
Andina
Peru signed Monday a framework agreement on trade, economic, technical and investment cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprises Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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1-Oct-2012
IP Watch
Nine countries asked by a United Nations Special Rapporteur to respond to a complaint over the alleged secret and bureaucratic negotiations for the draft Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement either failed to respond or defended the backdoor talks, according to the advocacy group Knowledge Ecology International.
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29-Sep-2012
Uzbekistan will join a CIS free trade zone by the end of this year, CIS steering committee head Sergei Lebedev said on Friday at a CIS heads of government meeting in the Crimean city of Yalta.
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29-Sep-2012
A long-delayed free trade agreement between the United States and Panama will soon go into force, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said on Friday.
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29-Sep-2012
The St. Kitts-Nevis government remains concerned that it could come out worse off if it starts to implement duty free access for European goods coming into the federation and it is seeking an extension in implementing certain measures under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that it and other Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries signed with Europe in 2008.
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29-Sep-2012
The Free Trade Agreement between Hong Kong and the Member States of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA States), namely Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, will soon enter into force, a spokesman of Hong Kong’ government announced Friday.
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29-Sep-2012
Three regional economic communities (Recs) have taken the lead as Africa seeks to remove trade barriers by 2017.
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28-Sep-2012
Xinhua
The Free Trade Agreement between Hong Kong and the Member States of the European Free Trade Association, namely Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, will soon enter into force, a spokesman of Hong Kong’s government announced Friday.
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27-Sep-2012
Ahram
While Palestinian Authority claims Cairo has ’given up’ on proposal for Egypt-Gaza free-trade zone, deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau tells Ahram Online otherwise
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27-Sep-2012
Business News Americas
Workers from Colombia’s Sintrametal metalworkers union are planning strikes and blockades to call on the government to refrain from signing the free trade agreement being negotiated with Turkey.
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27-Sep-2012
Asahi Shimbun
Japan is set to begin talks with Colombia on an economic partnership agreement in the hope that it will spur vehicle exports to the third-largest market in Latin America.
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27-Sep-2012
Yomiuri
A senior European Commission official said Tuesday that talks between the European Union and Japan to conclude a bilateral economic partnership agreement will likely begin around March.
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27-Sep-2012
Between the Lines
Interview with Ben Beachy, research director with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, conducted by Scott Harris
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27-Sep-2012
iPolitics
Although the EU is asking Canada to change its patent regime, it is not possible to do so just for the EU. The actual beneficiaries would be all of the world’s brand-name companies. Of the world’s top 12 health care companies by revenue only three or four are resident in the EU.
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23-Sep-2012
The decision taken by Pakistan and India to scale down tariff to a maximum of 5% and remove all non-tariff barriers (NTBs) by 2020 will lead to regional integration, according to an official of the Geneva-based World Trade Organisation (WTO).
