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15-Dec-2010
The Malaysian government last week negotiated free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States of America (via the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPP) and the European Union (EU).
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15-Dec-2010
The negotiations to conclude a services and investment deal under the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the Asean countries have hit a stonewall.
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15-Dec-2010
Syria will sign the Framework Agreement on establishing Free Trade Zone with the Mercosur Bloc during the Mercosur summit to be held later this week in the Brazilian city of Foz de Iguazu with the participation of a Syrian delegation headed by Minister of Economy and Trade Lamia Assi.
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15-Dec-2010
The Lee Myung-bak administration and the ruling Grand National Party are at loggerheads over how to get ratification of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement through the National Assembly.
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14-Dec-2010
ABC
"Oversold" and failing to deliver any real benefits to business. That’s the Productivity Commission’s damning conclusion about Australia’s six bilateral and regional trade agreements.
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14-Dec-2010
FT
The EU-India FTA could represent a milestone for Europe’s spirits industry, which has long thirsted for a share of the world’s biggest whisky market.
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14-Dec-2010
A second seminar on Taiwan-Indonesia collaboration opened in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta Tuesday to further explore bilateral ties on a wide front ranging from free trade agreements (FTAs) to challenges facing the media and technology sectors.
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13-Dec-2010
The positives of free trade agreements have been oversold and the way the deals are done needs to be improved, the Productivity Commission has found.
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13-Dec-2010
A year-long investigation of Australia’s free trade agreements has found they are often nothing of the kind.
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13-Dec-2010
The Productivity Commission has released a report backing Trade Minister Craig Emerson’s critique of many free trade agreements.
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13-Dec-2010
President Lee Myung-bak assured South Koreans Monday of long-term benefits from a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, saying it will not only expand South Korea’s economic domain but also bolster the Seoul-Washington military alliance, Yonhap news agency reported.
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13-Dec-2010
The government has thrown its weight behind the South African sugar industry’s demand for preferential access to European markets. If granted, this would put SA on an equal sugar-trade footing with other sugar producing developing economies — the African-Pacific-Caribbean countries and the world’s least developed countries — for the first time since the industry lost its access under apartheid.
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12-Dec-2010
Canadian Press
It appears the Europeans are increasingly warming up to a Canadian demand that closely resembles the Chapter 11 clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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12-Dec-2010
Global Research
There are numerous reports that Canada and the U.S. are secretly negotiating a security and trade deal which could be signed as early as January 2011. The proposed agreement would establish a security perimeter as a means to better secure North America and stimulate trade.
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11-Dec-2010
I followed the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit held in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital, last week and had a chance to see firsthand how the leaders of oil-rich Gulf Arab countries conducted the meeting against the backdrop of the challenges facing the Middle East.
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11-Dec-2010
The CPI(M) today said the government has "no mandate" to negotiate the Indo-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) without consulting Parliament and political parties as it would adversely affect the economy and large sections of the people.
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10-Dec-2010
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao faces a tough task when he arrives in India next week to allay New Delhi’s fears over China’s rise as a global power , and to smooth tensions in an often fractious relationship.
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10-Dec-2010
In their South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) renegotiations, South Korea and the United States agreed to draft and submit an additional accord to their respective legislative bodies that includes full-scale revisions to the auto provisions of the previous agreement formally signed in 2007.
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10-Dec-2010
Caribbean companies will have access to European programs designed to support innovation among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), according to a CARICOM trade specialist, who yesterday urged that Bahamian businesses should look to offer products or services "with a unique advantage that people are willing to pay a premium price for".
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10-Dec-2010
Stakeholders from the financial services, legal and accountancy professions yesterday expressed concern about a lack of access to information on how the Bahamian private sector can take advantage of opportunities arising from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.
