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19-Jul-2012
The Nation
Thailand and Germany have agreed to accelerate negotiations to conclude a free trade agreement between Thailand and the European Union (EU) as a key mechanism to boost mutual trade and investment.
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19-Jul-2012
PTI
With an aim to boost trade ties, India and Russia have agreed to jointly study a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement with Belarus-Kazakhstan and exuded confidence to acheive ambitious an trade target of $ 20 billion by 2015.
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19-Jul-2012
Ottawa Citizen
As another round of CETA negotiations takes place in Brussels this week, the Canadian government must know that an early and good trade agreement with Europe is crucial to Canada’s new economic and trade agenda in Asia.
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19-Jul-2012
La Tribune
Mercredi, le commissaire européen au Commerce a reçu le « feu vert » de la Commission européenne pour engager la négociation d’un accord de libre-échange avec le Japon.
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19-Jul-2012
The Detroit News
Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday was the first automaker to voice displeasure after the European Union announced it wants to start free-trade negotiations with Japan.
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19-Jul-2012
Xinhua
The European Union’s executive arm on Wednesday called on its member states to start Free Trade Agreement talks with Japan.
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19-Jul-2012
BBC
China has pledged $20bn (£12.8bn) in credit for Africa over the next three years, in a push for closer ties and increased trade.
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17-Jul-2012
Mizzima News
Burmese authorities are now discussing the lifting of tariff taxes with European countries under the EU-Asean Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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16-Jul-2012
La cumbre de mandatarios del Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur) efectuada a finales del mes pasado en Mendoza, Argentina, prendió las alarmas en torno del futuro del principal proceso de integración de la región creado por el Tratado de Asunción en 1991.
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16-Jul-2012
Bangkok Post
The Thai government is being urged to step up Thailand-EU free trade agreement talks to allow Thai products to gain greater access to European markets.
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16-Jul-2012
The Sun Daily
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which has gone through 13 rounds of negotiations, could be concluded by October next year, East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Programme chairman Lim Chin Leng said.
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16-Jul-2012
Yonhap
Korea is stepping up efforts to seal high-level bilateral free trade pacts with some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in a bid to further boost trade volume, Seoul’s Trade Ministry said Sunday.
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12-Jul-2012
The European Commission will next Wednesday (18 July) ask member states for a mandate to start talks with Japan on a bilateral free-trade deal.
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12-Jul-2012
We are writing to express our strong support for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that includes
major commitments aimed at further liberalizing cross-border trade and investment in services.
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12-Jul-2012
India and Peru are exploring the possibility of signing a free trade agreement (FTA) which would gradually eliminate tariffs on most of goods and services traded between the two countries.
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11-Jul-2012
Socialist Worker
Rick Greenblatt reports on the Obama administration’s secret negotiations for a new free-trade agreement—and the voices raised in dissent against it in San Diego.
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11-Jul-2012
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
A secret deal that saw Brussels blamed for ‘forcing’ Britain to take in 12,000 Indian workers – despite high unemployment – was supported by a lobbying push from British financial services companies.
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11-Jul-2012
Middle East Monitor
A new report by Cambridge law professor James Crawford says that "there do not appear to be any EC laws which could be breached by a member state taking the decision to ban the import of settlement produce on public policy grounds."
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11-Jul-2012
Asahi Shimbun
Korean pig farmers are increasingly finding themselves in a pickle after the European Union began exporting pork bellies, a fixture in the Korean diet, for less than one-third of the local price under the FTA that took effect in July last year.
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10-Jul-2012
UNCTAD
UNCTAD’s flagship publication, World Investment Report 2012: Towards a New Generation of Investment Policies, was launched on 5 July in Geneva by Dr. James Zhan, Director of the Investment and Enterprise Division, as well as by staff and collaborators worldwide.
