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20-Dec-2010
A “nonviolence movement” led by young ruling-party lawmakers, dedicated to ending brawls and fisticuffs in the National Assembly, could put the ratification of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement in jeopardy.
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19-Dec-2010
RFI
Après le statut avancé, le Maroc vient de signer un accord de libéralisation dans le domaine de la pêche et des produits agricoles avec l’Union européenne.
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18-Dec-2010
The Republic of China’s (ROC) representative to the European Union and Belgium, David Lin, says that ROC diplomats in Europe are set to begin pushing for a Free Trade Agreement with the EU. The ROC is the official name of Taiwan’s government.
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18-Dec-2010
Les pays sud-américains du Mercosur ont déclaré vendredi que la conclusion d’un accord commercial avec l’Union européenne était une «priorité», mais n’ont pas fixé de délai, à l’issue de leur sommet à Foz de Iguaçu.
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18-Dec-2010
EFE
The Ecuadorian government hailed a decision by an International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes arbitration panel, which said it lacked jurisdiction over a lawsuit brought against Quito by US-based Murphy Oil Corporation.
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18-Dec-2010
CNA
Taiwan and Singapore will begin formal negotiations on a free trade agreement early next year after completing feasibility studies, representatives of both governments announced in a joint press release Wednesday.
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18-Dec-2010
EurQctive
The European Union is set to clear the final legal hurdles to a free trade agreement with South Korea, putting pressure on Taiwan and Japan to strike similar deals with Brussels.
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18-Dec-2010
EurQctive
European Commission plans to reduce member states’ influence on the EU’s day-to-day decision-making by reforming the so-called ’comitology’ procedure were yesterday approved by MEPs, shifting power over key trade decisions like multi-million euro import tariffs away from national governments to the EU institutions.
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18-Dec-2010
Colombia Reports
Republicans in the US Senate are trying to block the extension of a trade preference agreement which allows many Colombian goods to enter the country duty-free.
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18-Dec-2010
Tengata Whenhua
Te Wharepora Hou, a group of Maori women based in Auckland, supports civil society groups from Australia and New Zealand in opposing the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
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18-Dec-2010
Dong-A Ilbo
The US has officially requested that Korea join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a multilateral free trade deal among Asia-Pacific economies, and Seoul will study the pros and cons of joining early next year.
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17-Dec-2010
The first visit of a major Chinese leader in more than four years has yielded a bland joint communiqué skirting core Indian concerns but incorporating a commitment to rapidly expand a lopsided trade relationship that has already turned India into the raw-material appendage of a neo-colonial Chinese economy.
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17-Dec-2010
Turkey is willing to use Ghana as an operations center for its business deals in the African continent, Turkish State Minister for foreign trade Zafer Caglayan said on Wednesday.
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17-Dec-2010
Member nations of Mercosur will seek to boost economic and political ties with Cuba in a bid to make the communist island an associate member of the South American trade bloc.
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17-Dec-2010
A group of 23 young lawmakers of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) on Thursday declared they will boycott the parliamentary vote if the party’s leadership attempts to railroad a Korea-U.S. free trade bill, saying they are opposed to any arbitrary legislation by a single party.
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17-Dec-2010
Demystifying Regional Services Trade Agreements
Summarises basic features of a regional services trade agreement with specific reference to India and Sri Lanka
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16-Dec-2010
Free-trade talks between Canada and the European Union will enter a crucial phase early next year, when the provinces will be asked to clarify where they stand on opening their procurement contracts to foreign bidders — a potential dealbreaker for the Europeans.
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16-Dec-2010
Turkey is offering economic partnership agreements to potential trade partners instead of traditional free trade agreements in an attempt to bypass regulations in its customs union deal with the European Union, a Turkish minister has said.
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16-Dec-2010
Barely six months ago, Taiwan’s industrialists were jubilant. The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which the island signed with mainland China, was celebrated as a blow against trade arch-rival South Korea.
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16-Dec-2010
Talks for a Canada-Europe trade deal haven’t attracted the kind of clamour that surrounded free trade with the United States in 1988, but the Europeans do have a wish list that includes some of Canada’s sacred cows: They want exemptions from our foreign-investment restrictions.
