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23-Feb-2012
Reuters
The United States said on Wednesday it was still considering whether to support Japan’s bid to join talks on a trans-Pacific regional free trade agreement, three months after Tokyo announced interest in the negotiations.
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22-Feb-2012
IMFMetal
International Metalworkers Federation South Asia Office organized a workshop on EU India Free Trade Agreement on February 14 and 15 in New Delhi. Representatives of Indian national trade union centres and Indian affiliates of IMF, BWI, ITGLWF, UNI, ICEM exchanged views on trade policies and implications for development and employment with IMF affiliates from France, Italy, Canada, Argentina and Japan.
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21-Feb-2012
Japan is very pleased with the economic fruits of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa), which has made “significant strides” since it came into force in 2008, according to the Japanese Embassy in Pasay City.
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21-Feb-2012
The search for a binding pact to safeguard the multi-billion-shilling export trade with Europe has taken a new twist with East African partners resolving to push for new classification of Kenya.
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21-Feb-2012
A nine-member Canadian parliamentary team has sought the support of the local business community for a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with India.
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21-Feb-2012
Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) announced Monday that the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) signed by Peru with Panama and Venezuela will come into force in April.
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21-Feb-2012
IPW
The TPP is gaining attention throughout the world not only because it holds the promise of opening up markets in participating countries and exporting stronger intellectual property protections enjoyed in the United States, but because some fear a greater backlash could ensue in the wake of outcry over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
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21-Feb-2012
European Commission
The EU decided to launch negotiations on a deep and comprehensive free trade area with Armenia in order to boost economic growth and investment with this Eastern European Partner.
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21-Feb-2012
Market Watch
With its options dwindling and the mistakes of its legal team mounting, Chevron has suffered another courtroom setback in its eleventh-hour attempt to block indigenous rainforest communities from enforcing their $18 billion judgment against the oil giant’s assets around the world.
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20-Feb-2012
East African
The East African community is facing a tough time as the deadline for signing a new trade regime with the European Union approaches.
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20-Feb-2012
CNA
A Singaporean academic suggested Sunday that Taiwan follow Singapore’s approach to a sticky controversy with the United States over a chewing gum ban as it grapples with a dispute over imports of US beef.
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20-Feb-2012
Japan Times
A four-day meeting between Japan and Australia on reaching a bilateral free-trade agreement ended Friday in Tokyo, with officials saying the two sides addressed a wide range of areas, including agricultural products, automobiles and energy.
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20-Feb-2012
First Post
An analysis of the FTA, the circumstances, additional documents and the entire process smack of an agreement that is terribly not in favour of India, writes KM Gopakumar
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20-Feb-2012
New Europe
The sides are nearing completion of agreement on their trade in goods but yet to sort differences over services and investment.
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20-Feb-2012
The sixth round of negotiations was held in Kuala Lumpur from 8 to 11 February 2012.
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17-Feb-2012
Tadamon!
Last fall, the Conservative government announced plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), a set of policies that serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism.
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17-Feb-2012
Tadamon!
L’automne dernier, le gouvernement conservateur a annoncé qu’il planifiait l’expansion de l’Accord de libre-échange Canada-Israël (ALÉCI), un ensemble de procédures qui servent à légitimer davantage l’occupation et l’apartheid israélien, et renforce la participation de certaines compagnies ainsi que du gouvernement canadien a la politique de racisme et de colonialisme prôné par Israël.
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17-Feb-2012
To provide a level-playing field to the domestic industry, trade body Assocham today urged the government to keep paper and its products in the negative list while signing bi-lateral and multi-lateral trade treaties.
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17-Feb-2012
Last week, the 12th India-EU Summit was held amid growing expectations that the two partners would announce the date for the conclusion of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is being negotiated since 2007. This agreement was projected as “one of the new generation of EU FTAs launched as part of the Global Europe strategy”, the focus of which was market opening and stronger rules in new trade areas of economic importance to the EU, including intellectual property rights (IPR), services, investment, public procurement and competition.
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17-Feb-2012
Premier Sean Chen rebutted Friday speculations that the free trade talks between Taiwan and Singapore have been delayed, saying they are in progress.
