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7-Mar-2012
Canada is a trading nation, with one-third of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) coming from our exports. Of course, it should come as no surprise that the U.S. and Mexico make up a large proportion of this trade (approximately 76 per cent).
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7-Mar-2012
The Trade department has started efforts to frame a trade pact between the European Union and the Philippines, a Cabinet official yesterday said.
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7-Mar-2012
WSJ
Taiwanese officials on Wednesday said they would recommend a conditional lifting of restrictions against U.S. beef that contains a “safe level” of ractopamine, a meat-leanness enhancer used by U.S. cattle raisers, to the legislature.
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7-Mar-2012
Bangkok Post
FTA Watch is urging the Thai government to review a proposed free trade pact with the European Union as they say it ignores public participation in decision-making and denies scrutiny of the negotiations.
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7-Mar-2012
Arirang
With just days left before the implementation of the US-Korea free trade agreement Washington is drawing attention to a little publicized area of the trade treaty, the part covering the pricing of medicine in Korea. The US says it wants more transparency; the Korean pharmaceutical industry says it wants to maintain control over pricing domestically.
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7-Mar-2012
BusinessWorld
The trade department has started efforts to frame a trade pact between the European Union and the Philippines, a Cabinet official yesterday said.
This comes as Manila firms up discussions with Transpacific Partnership (TPP) members on the Philippines’ eventual entry into the United States-led regional trade deal.
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6-Mar-2012
Irrawaddy News
From pariah state to pivotal partner in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)—that’s the emerging view among many members states who see a liberalizing Burma as holding the key to better access to markets outside the region.
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5-Mar-2012
Taipei Times
Local experts in hygiene and veterinary medicine have urged the US to squarely face the challenges posed by the scientific evidence on which it has based its contention that US beef containing the lean meat-enhancing feed additive ractopamine is safe for human consumption, before it presses Taiwan to handle the issue scientifically.
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5-Mar-2012
Info Justice
Negotiations of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) have turned to discussions of the pharmaceutical reimbursement chapter. This issue is highly controversial and represents a very recent shift in US trade policy.
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5-Mar-2012
VNA
The EU hope negotiations for an FTA with Vietnam will be announced at the EU-ASEAN business summit taking place in Phnom Penh on April 1
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5-Mar-2012
Sydney Morning Herald
The federal government is standing firm against Australian and US business demands that it allow controversial dispute settlement clauses into an ambitious new Pacific free trade deal.
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5-Mar-2012
Times of India
The United States says it is developing a new model bilateral investment treaty (BIT) and had intensified its engagement with potential partners like India and China to conclude such a treaty with them.
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5-Mar-2012
Economic Times
The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) or Free Trade Agreement between India and Canada may be finalised by 2013, according to a top Canadian diplomat.
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2-Mar-2012
Global Post
According to labor-rights activists as well as a recent US State department report, many Colombian co-ops function as glorified temp agencies providing companies with cheap and docile non-union workers.
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2-Mar-2012
The Nation
The Federal government’s decision to liberalise trade with India and cabinet approval to eliminate negative list by year end are going to open country’s doors to Indian products whereas Pakistan has nothing significant to export India except raw gypsum, salt and dry fruits.
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2-Mar-2012
Hindu Business Line
US officials would soon travel to India for talks on Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), a top trade official has said, hoping the talks would conclude soon.
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2-Mar-2012
Japan Times
The foreign minister was in Japan to attend a joint study on a bilateral EPA, which President Santos and Prime Minister Noda agreed on launching last September.
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2-Mar-2012
Matangi Tonga
The 11th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiations between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Malaysia and four other countries starts in Melbourne on March 1. Civil society groups from those countries are in Melbourne to contest corporate influence and debate the issues.
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2-Mar-2012
AFP
A free trade agreement between Peru and Japan went into effect on Thursday that the Peruvian government says will increase bilateral commerce by at least 25 per cent.
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1-Mar-2012
Arirang
Korean livestock farmers will receive cash assistance from the government if the price of their products drop after the Korea-US free trade agreement comes into effect on 15 March. This is one of the latest measures laid out by the agriculture ministry.
