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13-Aug-2012
Tax News
Members of the Australian business community have launched a campaign for trade agreements to include provisions to allow private companies to sue foreign governments for breach of contract or property rights.
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13-Aug-2012
PR Newswire
The American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce has been arguing strongly to bring the US-Uzbek bilateral investment treaty into force. The Uzbeks have signed it, but the US has not yet ratified it.
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13-Aug-2012
GBG Indonesia
Negotiations will soon commence for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Indonesia. APINDO has undertaken the task of gathering input from Indonesia’s private sector for the preparatory stages of the negotiations.
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13-Aug-2012
Yomiuri Shimbun
Fears have risen over the future of Japan-South Korea economic relations in the wake of South Korean President Lee Myung Bak’s visit Friday to the Takeshima islands.
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13-Aug-2012
Reuters
The European Commission said it had received an anti-dumping complaint by European steel producers’ group Eurofer against imports of stainless steel wires from India.
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11-Aug-2012
Jakarta Post
Chile, an entry point into the South American region, soon expects to set up a free trade agreement with Indonesia
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9-Aug-2012
Americas Program
When the Paraguayan Senate approved the “political judgment” against Fernando Lugo on June 22, it unleashed the biggest political crisis in the Mercosur in the last 20 years. The dust still hasn’t settled, but it’s clear that nothing will be the same since the shake-up.
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9-Aug-2012
WSJ
The former GM workers chose the grounds next to the US Embassy to stage their hunger strike because of the labor action plan agreed to between Colombia and the US last year under the countries’ free trade agreement — which both governments, and General Motors, have igored.
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9-Aug-2012
FT
China and Taiwan have signed their first investor-protection agreement in the latest sign of the momentum behind President Ma Ying-jeou’s drive to strengthen his country’s relationship with China, its biggest trade partner and frequent political adversary.
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9-Aug-2012
La Tribune
Le gouvernement sud-coréen réfute les allégations de la France, selon lesquelles le marché tricolore serait envahi de voitures produites en Corée.
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9-Aug-2012
IPS
There is little likelihood that South America’s Mercosur trade bloc will take up China’s proposal to establish a free trade agreement, at least in the short term. Experts and industrialists fear an invasion of cheap Chinese goods, and unequal competition.
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9-Aug-2012
Reuters
Some in China see the Trans Pacific Partnership as a US attempt to rewrite the rules of trade for the region to economically contain China, whose rapid growth continues to rattle many lawmakers and companies in the United States. Deputy USTR Demetrios Marantis rejects the charge.
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8-Aug-2012
Los visionarios sueños de integración regional se convirtieron en instituciones de naturaleza política, diseñadas para contrarrestar, ciega e ideológicamente, la influencia norteamericana
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8-Aug-2012
Bangkok Post
A free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union requires not only parliamentary approval but also a public hearing before the Commerce Ministry can negotiate the terms, FTA Watch, a civil society network, declared on Wednesday.
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8-Aug-2012
Al Jazeera
The European Union is being duplicitous by condemning Israel’s human rights abuses while increasing trade links.
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8-Aug-2012
PTI
India and the European Union are facing “difficulties” relating to the services sector in signing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two sides, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Didier Reynders said here today.
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8-Aug-2012
SME Times
Ministers from India and Chile Tuesday decided to expand the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) to increase trade between the two nations, informed ministry of commerce and industry.
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8-Aug-2012
Bloomberg
South Korean consumers aren’t getting the full benefit of deals lowering trade barriers because distributors and wholesalers aren’t passing along the savings in import costs, the nation’s trade minister said.
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8-Aug-2012
PDI
When I was in South Korea for five days last month, I noticed that very few European and American cars were on the road in Seoul and Keosu.
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7-Aug-2012
Chosun Ilbo
Korea and Vietnam have agreed to start formal talks toward a free trade agreement. Seoul and Hanoi already have a preliminary FTA, because Korea signed a trade pact with ASEAN. But Korea’s key exports — cars, components and IT products — are not included in the pact with ASEAN, so Seoul is now seeking separate FTAs with each ASEAN member country.
