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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.
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20-Jun-2010
Colombia Reports
Colombia’s free trade agreement with the European Union could take one and a half years to be ratified by the European parliament, according to the EU’s Deputy Director for External Relations.
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18-Jun-2010
IWA
The EU has many bilateral agreements on wine in order to aggressively protect its corporate interests
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18-Jun-2010
Arirang
An OECD report shows that as of end May, Korea had 106 international investment agreements, most being bilateral deals.This puts Korea in a tie with the United States
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18-Jun-2010
Green Med
The fresh produce organizations members of the Joint French-Spanish-Italian Committee wrote to the European Parliament to claim their vote against the renewal of the EU-Morocco Association Agreement.
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17-Jun-2010
Asia Times
China has pledged to provide trade concessions to Islamabad that it is not getting from the United States and European Union
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17-Jun-2010
New Zealand should be looking to become the food bowl of Asia and use free trade agreements to do it, according to financial services firm KPMG.
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17-Jun-2010
At the end of 2009, all GCC countries, with the exception of UAE and Oman which disengaged from the plan, were within the fiscal convergence criteria needed for the regional monetary union, the Washington-based Institute of International Finance (IIF) said.
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17-Jun-2010
The Saudi Jordanian Businessmen Council supported Jordan’s request for a free trade agreement with Gulf states, according to the council’s Chairman Mohammad Al Audah.
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17-Jun-2010
A meeting of regional private sector officials has ended in Grenada with a call for Caricom to speed-up the rate at which free movement of goods and services are implemented.
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17-Jun-2010
South Korea and Colombia began Monday their third round of free trade negotiations in Seoul, Yonhap News Agency reported the trade ministry as saying.
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17-Jun-2010
A Chinese political and trade delegation to New Zealand has been lauded as a positive continuance of a burgeoning relationship between the two countries by Trade Minister Tim Groser.
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17-Jun-2010
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretary-General Sindiso Ngwenya on Tuesday urged China to enter into joint ventures with Africa’s largest regional trading and economic grouping to capitalize on the customs union that was launched last year.
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16-Jun-2010
AMI
The US meat industry is doing all it can to get ratification of pending US trade agreements, so it can sell more product overseas (just when the US Department of Agriculture is calling on US residents to lower their meat consumption to improve health).
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16-Jun-2010
Signing of the East African Community (EAC) Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) agreements that were expected to be signed in June have been postponed to November this year after the negotiations are concluded.
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16-Jun-2010
A second round of negotiations towards the Transpacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPPTA) is taking place this week in San Francisco. New Zealand is one of eight parties along with the US, Australia, Singapore, Chile, Peru, Brunei and Vietnam, and others may join.
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16-Jun-2010
The negative list of South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) comprises 53 per cent of the total trade between the regional countries, therefore, fully implementation on the agreement would not even yield the desired results, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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16-Jun-2010
Key members of the United States food industry have come out in support of comprehensive free trade deal including New Zealand.
