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28-Feb-2011
Hankyoreh
The Lee Myung-bak administration announced plans Friday to submit a new S Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement ratification motion to the National Assembly correcting a translation error present in the text submitted in October 2010. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade did not independently verify translations in the languages of 21 other EU nations.
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26-Feb-2011
Mingas
The US-Korea FTA must be opposed not only because of its own terrible effects on US and Korean workers, peoples and communities, but also because it would open the door to similar disastrous agreements with Panama and Colombia.
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25-Feb-2011
Hindu Business Line
The EU’s proposed trade agreement is riddled with intellectual property provisions that would harm India’s 2005 Patent Act and block public-interest rulings such as the Aluvia decision.
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25-Feb-2011
VOV News
Vietnam National Assembly will accelerate the negotiation process to facilitate the signature of a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association ahead of schedule.
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25-Feb-2011
PTI
Thailand today said it will push for the conclusion of a free trade agreement with India and other members of Bimstec by July, enabling tariff reduction next year.
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25-Feb-2011
Xinhua
The Ecuadorian government on Wednesday requested the U.S. Senate to approve an extension by at least 18 months of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), which expired 11 days ago.
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25-Feb-2011
CNA
"The ball is in the Philippines’ court," Ledoux told reporters.
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24-Feb-2011
Palestine Monitor
Under the leadership of Tony Blair and Catherine Ashton, the EU has increased its connection to Israel’s occupation of Palestine, says David Cronin
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24-Feb-2011
Public Citizen
Public Citizen | February 23, 2011
Trans-Pacific FTA: Leaked intellectual property proposals
Chile: Preliminary considerations for TPP IP chapter
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24-Feb-2011
Public Citizen
Public Citizen | February 23, 2011
Trans-Pacific FTA: Leaked intellectual property proposals
New Zealand: Proposed IP chapter text
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24-Feb-2011
Insidecostarica.com
Nicaragua joined on Tuesday the Free Trade Agreement between Chile and Central America, seeking to promote exports bound for the South American country.
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23-Feb-2011
Mainichi Daily News
Japan and Canada have agreed to resume a joint study on the possibility of a bilateral free trade agreement, Japanese government sources said Wednesday.
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23-Feb-2011
Bua News
South Africa is pushing ahead to secure a free trade agreement between the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for East African States (Comesa).
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23-Feb-2011
Jakarta Post
The Association of Indonesian Palm Oil Producers has called on the government to speed up negotiations of a free trade agreement with India to protect Indonesia’s palm oil market following last week’s India-Malaysia free trade agreement.
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23-Feb-2011
Colombia Reports
While South Korea seeks to further its development by selling to Colombia its industrial goods, Colombia’s elite pretend to develop the country by selling coal, oil, coffee and flowers (and probably farmland, which, thanks to the paramilitaries, they own) to South Korea, says Colombia Reports
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23-Feb-2011
Mainichi Daily News
Japan and Angola struck a basic agreement Monday on a bilateral investment treaty, which is designed to facilitate Japanese firms’ foray into the resource-rich African country
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23-Feb-2011
OS Blog
"It’s like an ant fighting an elephant. We are one of the weakest and poorest groups and they (the EU and the pharmaceutical industry) are among the richest and strongest."
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22-Feb-2011
Upside Down World
The plaintiffs in the case against Chevron tried in Ecuador, who won a historic 9.5 billion dollar verdict after a nearly 18-year struggle over environmental and health damages caused in a quarter-century of oil operations in the Amazon jungle, are not disheartened by the road still ahead.
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22-Feb-2011
Canadian Press
The Canadian government is seeking to overcome a potential stumbling block to a free trade deal with the European Union by moving EU objections to the oilsands off the table.
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21-Feb-2011
The Nation
Thailand should produce about 700,000 skilled labourers to serve the investment influx from Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises after the ongoing revision in the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (Jtepa).
