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12-Sep-2010
Business Standard
A hoped-for green light from the European Council, which comprises 27 member-states, was not forthcoming on Friday, as EU trade ministers met to try and break the deadlock.
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12-Sep-2010
DPA
European Union trade ministers on Friday approved the launch of free trade negotiations with Malaysia, in a move which officials hope could stimulate billions of dollars of business flows.
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11-Sep-2010
The East Africa Community and Turkey will discuss trade partnerships when they meet in a business forum between September 28 and 30.
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11-Sep-2010
The Gulf Cooperation Council, a political and economic union involving the six Arab states, has decided to shelve its proposed customs union by at least two years after the modalities for the distribution of revenues and the mechanism of collection were not finalised.
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11-Sep-2010
The European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council yesterday decided to rediscuss the approval of a free trade pact with Korea on Monday, and the 27-member bloc hopes to sign the pact in early October, the minister presiding over the council meeting said.
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10-Sep-2010
AFP
Asian economic powers Japan and India broadly agreed Thursday on a free trade deal that aims to reduce most tariffs between the two nations in a decade, Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada said.
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10-Sep-2010
Dow Jones Newswires
Chile is a step closer to sealing a free-trade agreement with India, the remaining economic superpower it has yet to sign one with.
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9-Sep-2010
The country’s cell phone market was opened to private competition with the entry into force of the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the US (CAFTA) on Jan.1, 2009.
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9-Sep-2010
India, Japan on Thursday discussed ways for early conclusion of their proposed bilateral free trade pact to liberalise commerce.
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9-Sep-2010
Kyodo News
Senior government officials from Japan and India held talks Thursday in Tokyo to lay the groundwork for reaching a bilateral free trade agreement that would provide Japanese goods and services greater access to the world’s second-most populous market.
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8-Sep-2010
Focus Taiwan
Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang confirmed Tuesday that Taiwan and Japan have started negotiations on a bilateral investment guarantee agreement to step up economic exchanges between the two countries.
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8-Sep-2010
IP Watch
Everyone you ask this week about the Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement (ACTA) tells you that they’re just about to work their way through the new draft version to understand the implications of changes made during the recent negotiation round in Washington, DC. Massive changes to the text have been revealed by yet another leak of the draft treaty text being negotiated by 10 countries and the EU 27 member states.
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8-Sep-2010
AFP
Italy will veto a free-trade deal between the European Union and South Korea unless changes are made or the implementation of the agreement is pushed back a year, the junior minister for foreign trade warned on Tuesday.
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8-Sep-2010
BBC
MEPs have broadly welcomed new safeguard measures being brought in as part of a free trade agreement between the EU and South Korea.
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7-Sep-2010
Asia Briefing
More information has come through recently regarding the specific goods and services that will likely be affected by the China-Taiwan Cross Straights Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) which was signed back on June 29 in Chongqing, China.
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7-Sep-2010
234Next.com
West African lawmakers have cautioned against any decision to open up the region’s market “too wide and hastily” to the European Union as part of the concession for reaching a trade agreement between the two regions.
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6-Sep-2010
This article analyzes in details rules of origin in the US-Arab countries FTAs.
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5-Sep-2010
India will soon undertake negotiations to discuss the possibility of expanding an agreement on tariffs with South American bloc Mercosur countries in November.
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5-Sep-2010
Lexology
China, Russia and India considered candidates for the first stand-alone EU-wide BITs.
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5-Sep-2010
Economic Times
India Friday urged Ghana to sign at the earliest a bilateral treaty aimed at protecting and promoting their investments in each other’s territories.
