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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.
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10-Jul-2012
michaelgeist.ca
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10-Jul-2012
Council of Canadians
According Michael Geist, Canada and the European Union are trying to ratify the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement through the backdoor, by including almost all its Internet and enforcement provisions in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
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10-Jul-2012
ZDNet
Country upset over European Union’s decision to examine if it’s "data secure" before committing to bilateral free trade agreement aimed at boosting outsourcing flow between region and India.
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10-Jul-2012
Bangkok Post
The scope of talks for the Thailand-EU free trade agreement will likely be concluded and submitted for parliamentary endorsement next month.
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9-Jul-2012
Express Tribune
Amid calls to make public the draft of bilateral investment treaty, the government claims that it has gained much and lost nothing to the United States as Washington has agreed to first taking any business dispute to Pakistani courts for settlement.
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8-Jul-2012
Taipei Times
The Office of the US Trade Representative yesterday urged US trading partners to eliminate any trade barriers caused by a ban against the use of leanness-enhancing feed additive ractopamine, following a Codex Alimentarius Commission decision to establish maximum residue levels (MRLs) for the drug in beef and pork.
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8-Jul-2012
San Diego City Buzz Examiner
Arrests were made Saturday as the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement protest marched on the Gaslamp district in downtown San Diego.
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8-Jul-2012
Taiwan should not rush negotiations on free trade agreements (FTAs) with its trade partners, the head of the Council for Economic Planning and Development said Wednesday, in light of upcoming trade talks among China, Japan and South Korea.
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8-Jul-2012
A top official in charge of Antigua & Barbuda’s implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) has struck aside charges that the state has been dragging its feet on giving effect to the pact signed in 2008 with the European Union (EU)
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8-Jul-2012
About two hundred people banging pots and pans marched downtown from the Civic Center Plaza to the Hilton Bayfront Hotel Saturday morning to protest a meeting of negotiators working to craft the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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8-Jul-2012
In October 2007, several leading economies, including the U.S., European Union, and Canada, announced plans to negotiate the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
