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2-Nov-2010
Open Democracy
Since their launch in Prague last year, the EU-Canada FTA negotiations have largely followed an agenda drawn up by Goldman Sachs, IBM, Vodafone and Deutsche Bank.
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2-Nov-2010
Financial Times
Takashi Shinohara, senior vice minister for agriculture, strongly denies Japanese media reports that Tokyo has already decided to launch talks with the US and others on entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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2-Nov-2010
The Canadian
The EU-Canada FTA really is a recolonization of Canada. However, it is not just a recolonization by Europeans, but colonization by international business interests via the European Commission.
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2-Nov-2010
AP
The leaders of South Korea and the United States agreed to try and finalize a long-stalled free trade deal ahead of a summit of major economies set for next week, the office of South Korea’s president said Tuesday.
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2-Nov-2010
The Star
Malaysia and Australia have agreed to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by next year to further improve trade and investment opportunities between the two countries.
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1-Nov-2010
Ria Novosti
Vietnam is considering creating a free trade zone with the post-Soviet customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Vietnam’s President Nguyen Minh Triet said on Sunday.
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1-Nov-2010
Japan Times
The Japanese government will submit a bill to the Diet next year that would give foreign firms preferential treatment if they establish headquarters or research centers in Japan.
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1-Nov-2010
Global Times
Forward momentum on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between China and Norway appears to be on track, despite the recent spat over awarding of the Nobel Prize.
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1-Nov-2010
NZ Herald
New Zealand and Russia have had basic initial talks about a possible free trade agreement (FTA), Prime Minister John Key says.
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1-Nov-2010
GLW
In Mexico, a war involving rival drug gangs, law enforcement agencies and the national army has officially claimed 23,000 lives since 2006. The violence can be directly attributed to the corrosive impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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29-Oct-2010
The Post
Not many farmers may know that there are trade negotiations under way with the European Union that may severely impact agriculture in Canada. Items such as food inspection, supply management, local food, Canadian Wheat Board and Plant Breeders Rights are all on the negotiating table.
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29-Oct-2010
Reuters
The five-nation East African Community will likely miss a November deadline to sign a trade deal with the European Union, the economic bloc’s secretary general said on Thursday.
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29-Oct-2010
ANI
In a move that can change the dynamics of trade in East Asia and also throw a challenge to China’s economic dominance in its own backyard, India is looking forward to negotiate comprehensive free trade agreements with Indonesia and Thailand.
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29-Oct-2010
The Star
The free trade agreement (FTA) talks between Australia and Malaysia are likely to be concluded by mid-2011.
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29-Oct-2010
Mainichi
Mamoru Moteki, president of the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives, told a press conference that government subsidies to farming families alone cannot prompt farmers to accept Japan’s participation in the FTA.
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28-Oct-2010
National Post
Canada’s pharmaceutical industry and the European Union have been quietly lobbying for changes that could give brand-name drugs several years more patent protection here — and potentially add hundreds of millions of dollars to Canadian medication costs annually.
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28-Oct-2010
Economic Times
The proposed India-EU free trade agreement continues to hang in balance as there is still no clarity on whether the European Parliament will ratify it without inclusion of non-trade issues such as child labour and environment.
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28-Oct-2010
Asahi Shimbun
Concerns and demands from Japan’s closest trade partner, the United States, have complicated Tokyo’s increasingly contentious plan to enter negotiations for the creation of an Asia-Pacific free trade zone.
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28-Oct-2010
Xinhua
South Korea is facing a cabbage crisis that the Chinese government thinks could have been avoided if the two countries had signed an FTA together.
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28-Oct-2010
Focus on the Global South-Philippines
As ASEAN advances towards its goal of becoming an economic community in 2015, it has to confront urgent issues relating to the people’s right to information, trade and economic agreements, and the environmental concerns resulting from this integration into the regional and global economy.
