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25-Jun-2010
Taiwan and China finalized details of a key trade pact Thursday to cut export tariffs and allow more market access to each other, but Taiwan’s opposition is planning a massive rally Saturday to protest the deal.
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25-Jun-2010
Asean has been interested in using Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) as instruments for promoting trade in the globalised economy.
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25-Jun-2010
The European Union high representative for foreign affairs and security policy and vice-president of the European Commission, Catherine Ashton, is currently visiting India to enhance Indo-EU ties. Ashish Ray asked her a few questions:
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25-Jun-2010
India and Canada could start negotiations on a free trade agreement for opening up markets in goods, investments and services by the end of this year.
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24-Jun-2010
AP
The deal, which is expected to be signed next week in Chongqing, ultimately ties Taiwan’s high-tech economy to China’s lucrative markets and paves the way for much closer political relations between the sides.
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24-Jun-2010
EP
The European Parliament’s International Trade Committee gave its approval on Wednesday to draft legislation implementing a safeguard clause in the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA).
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23-Jun-2010
IFG
International Forum on Globalisation protest at TPP negotiations in San Francisco
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23-Jun-2010
Chosun Ilbo
The two governments will start preliminary talks on sensitive items such as agriculture and automobiles in September
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23-Jun-2010
WSJ
Most important to the Obama administration’s hope of making its first negotiated trade deal a "21st-century" agreement, enough consensus existed on new issues like harmonizing regulations and supply systems to move toward text.
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23-Jun-2010
New York Times
European companies are increasing their presence in emerging markets like India in part to offset sluggish domestic growth. That is also true for Spanish companies that have traditionally focused on former Latin American colonies rather than on Asia.
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23-Jun-2010
Export duty is one pending issue that needs to be resolved before an EU-GCC free trade agreement is signed, disclosed Tomas Dupla del Moral, Middle East and south Mediterranean External Commissioner with the European Commission in an email exchange with the Kuwait Times this week.
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22-Jun-2010
Manila Bulletin
Short of shooting down a proposed bilateral free trade agreement between Taiwan and the Philippines, Trade and Industry Secretary Jesli A. Lapus said the country’s “One-China” policy stands and that commercial relations between the two economies are adequately covered under the Philippines-Taiwan Joint Economic Conference.
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22-Jun-2010
Business Standard
Both multilateral trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) like the India-EU (European Union) FTA, need to be speedily concluded in order to aid global recovery from the economic crisis, Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma said on Monday.
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22-Jun-2010
Taiwan News
A new econometric forecast by two US-based economists of the benefits that could accrue to Taiwan in the wake of the signing of the proposed China-Taiwan FTA ironically highlights the lack of utility of such findings in persuading Taiwan’s people to accept the touted pact.
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22-Jun-2010
Global Times
Currently, Australia is the biggest exporter of iron ore, alumina, coal and liquefied natural gas to China, and China is Australia’s biggest trading partner and biggest exporting market as well as the biggest importer.
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21-Jun-2010
Bernama
The government will expand investment and trade opportunities by signing new free trade agreements, particularly with nations in West Asia and other emerging markets.
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21-Jun-2010
éirígí Sligeach
Already this year, more than 30 union activists have been murdered.
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20-Jun-2010
Botswana has emerged as the dealmaker in the contentious Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations aimed at finding middle ground between the European Union on one side and South Africa, Namibia and Angola on the other.
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20-Jun-2010
The European Union (EU) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) last week celebrated 22 years of their relationship by launching a three-year Joint Action Programme (JAP) to move forward to stronger cooperation with confidence and optimism.
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20-Jun-2010
The multi-sectoral Fair Trade Alliance (FTA) is calling on incoming President Benigno Aquino III to prioritize the review and recall of controversial “midnight” Executive Orders issued by outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
