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30-Dec-2010
Ahram Online
The European Union signed an agreement with the Palestinian Authority to import some Palestinian products duty free
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30-Dec-2010
Ma’an News Agency
The Palestinian Authority Cabinet on Tuesday instructed a committee to complete negotiations for economic cooperation with South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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28-Dec-2010
Korea Times
Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday the Seoul-Washington free trade bill unilaterally submitted to the National Assembly in 2008 remains valid despite procedural errors.
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28-Dec-2010
BeYourOwnLeader
In the last year, the U.S. has channelled many of the the Security and Prosperity Partnership’s (SPP) trilateral negotiations to parallel bilateral discussions with both Canada and Mexico. Recent reports of a Canada-U.S. security and trade agreement has once again highlighted the whole process of deep continental integration. The U.S. is formulating a strategy with the aim of implementing a North American security perimeter.
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27-Dec-2010
Andina
Trade ministers of Peru, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador will meet next month to monitor progress of Peru’s initiative to create a free trade area between the four Pacific nations
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26-Dec-2010
Some Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday challenged officials over the government’s post-Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) plan to seek free-trade agreements (FTAs) with as many countries as possible.
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26-Dec-2010
South Korea will seek to clinch more free trade agreements (FTAs) with emerging countries, including those from South America and Africa, in a bid to boost trade, the main engine behind the country’s rapid economic growth.
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26-Dec-2010
Swedish officials have expressed their country’s desire for wider trade and investment relations with the UAE and for a stronger presence in the Gulf country for Swedish businesses seeking to further expand into the whole Gulf region.
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26-Dec-2010
The global economic crisis of 2009 was a major reason behind Turkey’s stalled Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which began in 2005, Foreign Trade Undersecretariat officials have said.
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24-Dec-2010
Japan Times
Japan and the US are making preparations to hold bilateral talks in Washington in mid-January on Tokyo’s possible participation in negotiations for an expanded trans-Pacific free-trade pact, sources said Wednesday.
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24-Dec-2010
Ouestaf News
Les relations entre l’Afrique et l’Union européenne restent toujours difficiles, la conclusion des Accords de partenariat économique, initialement prévue au plus tard en décembre 2007 faisant toujours face à des résistances, alors que le volume des échanges entre ces deux entités est en constante baisse et la confiance à son « plus bas » niveau, selon des experts.
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24-Dec-2010
Express Tribune
Pakistan has faced claims worth $1 billion and could lose hundreds of millions of dollars more because of international investment treaties that are contrary to the interests of the country, asserted UK-based corporate lawyer Mahnaz Malik.
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24-Dec-2010
CBS News
Pfizer lobbied to scupper a free trade deal between the US and New Zealand because it was angry at the New Zealand government’s healthcare system, which strictly controls prices and new drug approvals, according to diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks.
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21-Dec-2010
A group comprising of 43 opposition lawmakers Tuesday called on the government to nullify the free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States.
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21-Dec-2010
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan has keen interest in concluding a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and seeks Kuwait’s support in this regard.
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21-Dec-2010
Thailand on Tuesday said a comprehensive market-opening pact with India is expected to be concluded in 2011, giving a boost to bilateral trade, set to cross USD 6.5 billion this fiscal.
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20-Dec-2010
Malaysiakini
The Consumers Association of Penang is deeply concerned about the implications FTAs with the US (via the TPP) and the EU might have on various aspects of Malaysia’s development.
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20-Dec-2010
Bangkok Post
The Thai government wants the European Union to expand free trade talks to cover labour in addition to existing pacts on industry, services and investment.
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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.
