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6-Apr-2011
NAFB
Last week, Canada’s Constitutional Court gave the go-ahead to place into effect a free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia. The agreement could take effect as soon as July 1.
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6-Apr-2011
Colombia Reports
Colombia’s social protection minister has met with members of the European Parliament to explain his country’s advances in human rights issues as it pertains to the pending free trade agreement between Colombia and the EU, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday.
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6-Apr-2011
WPR
Canada and Japan announced in February that they were formally studying the possibility of concluding a bilateral free trade agreement. In an email interview, Carin Holroyd, a political science professor at the University of Waterloo, discussed economic relations between Canada and Japan.
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6-Apr-2011
Small farmer organisations from across the Caribbean have criticized regional governments and their bureaucrats for leaving them to “see for themselves” during a period of rising food prices and declining agricultural products.
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6-Apr-2011
A proposed free trade zone with the European Union could slow economic growth in Ukraine, the country’s deputy economics minister said in an interview published on Tuesday.
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6-Apr-2011
Speaker in the House of Assembly Prince Guduza says Swaziland and Lesotho signed the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) under duress.
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6-Apr-2011
Before mid-year South Africa would host the next summit on the establishment of a Trilateral Free Trade Agreement (T-FTA) among the regional economic groupings of the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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6-Apr-2011
The Obama administration has resolved the remaining barriers to a free-trade agreement with Colombia and expects to announce a deal by the end of the week, according to people briefed on the process.
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6-Apr-2011
Six years after India and Thailand executed a limited free-trade agreement involving just 82 products, the two countries are now ready to work on a full-fledged pact in goods, services and investments.
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6-Apr-2011
A council headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would deliberate on the feasibility of starting a dialogue on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and Australia, besides a more comprehensive agreement with Indonesia.
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4-Apr-2011
Global Research
Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness’ – sets forth how the United States and Canada will manage our shared homeland and economic security
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4-Apr-2011
Zawya
France is to propose to Tunisia an association agreement with the European Union (EU) in return for "a set of commitments" in relation to Tunisia’s repatriating its nationals whose immigration wave affected Italy.
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4-Apr-2011
Daily Nation
Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations between East African Community and the European Union are reported to have stalled, EAC sources said in Arusha on Sunday.
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4-Apr-2011
Yonhap
Korean companies should be prepared for fierce competition with Japanese rivals in India following New Delhi’s signing of a free trade agreement with Tokyo, a local trade body said yesterday.
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4-Apr-2011
EFE
Mexico is close to ratifying an expanded free-trade deal with Colombia after three Senate committees gave the green light for the agreement, while progress is also being made in negotiations on a separate free-trade accord with Peru, Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said.
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2-Apr-2011
CEO
Under the new rules, which will be voted on in Parliament next week, investors from China, India or elsewhere could sue EU member states if they find that a law in the area of public health, environmental protection or social policy interferes with their profits.
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31-Mar-2011
IPS
Thousands of small-scale fishers in Central America are fighting for survival in the face of free trade deals, transnational corporations, mega tourism projects and pollution that is harming marine life.
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31-Mar-2011
Line on Agriculture
A group of farmers and ranchers from the US’s largest farm organization will be heading to South and Central America to show support for pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama.
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31-Mar-2011
RTT News
Oberhelman noted that since the FTAs with Mexico, Chile, Central America, the Dominican Republic and Peru went into effect, Caterpillar exports have increased substantially to those regions of the world, with exports up fivefold to Mexico, threefold to Chile and up by more than 60 percent to Peru.
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30-Mar-2011
What the United States is seeking on intellectual property in the transpacific trade talks has been leaked. Some of it looks downright sinister.
