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11-Oct-2010
AFP
Norway said Friday it wanted to wrap up a free trade agreement with China despite a warning from Beijing that jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize would “damage Sino-Norwegian relations.”
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11-Oct-2010
ANI
Raga D’silva, deputy chairman of the India New Zealand Business Council, has warned that the TVNZ presenter Paul Henry’s ’racist’ comments against New Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit could have a negative impact on negotiations for a free trade agreement between both the countries.
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11-Oct-2010
Globes
Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz met with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee in Washington DC on Friday, where the two men agreed to prepare the ground for a free trade agreement (FTA) between their two countries.
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11-Oct-2010
PharmaBiz
Hundreds of public interest groups across the world have jointly urged prime minister Manmohan Singh not to sign the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with European Union as the Centre’s role in medicines supply is under threat due to the intellectual property provisions included in the pact.
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8-Oct-2010
Economic Times
Indian officials reserved their right on Thursday to escalate a trade dispute with the European Union over seizures of generic drugs after Indian media reported the row had been solved.
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8-Oct-2010
Business Day
South Africa is likely to conclude an economic partnership agreement by the end of this year with the European Union as a member of the Southern African Customs Union, International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said yesterday.
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8-Oct-2010
Reuters
Governments are opening up to outside investment for funds to help their economies recover, with liberalising measures outnumbering those seeking to keep out foreign money, a UN report showed on Thursday.
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8-Oct-2010
Tico Times
Costa Rica’s Foreign Trade Ministry (COMEX) and the legislature’s Special Permanent Committee agreed Thursday morning to recommend approval of the free-trade agreement with China.
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8-Oct-2010
WSJ
Momentum is building for a US-supported free-trade pact in the Pacific aimed to serve as a counterweight to China’s economic influence.
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8-Oct-2010
The Guardian
The EC is seeking a trade agreement with India which will restrict its generic companies from making cheap copycat drugs for poor countries, says MSF, which launches a campaign to oppose this and other allegedly restrictive EC practices today
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8-Oct-2010
Asahi Shimbun
For Japan, which has been unable to even start negotiations with the EU on a similar free-trade arrangement, the agreement could deal a heavy blow to its auto and electronics industries.
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7-Oct-2010
Mainichi Daily News
Japanese and US business leaders will adopt a joint statement urging Japan to take part in the existing four-nation trans-Pacific free trade agreement.
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7-Oct-2010
ICTSD
Talks on a controversial “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” are very nearly complete, following what participating nations described as the “final” round of negotiations in Tokyo last week.
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7-Oct-2010
Business Day
The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) has instructed a team of technical experts to draft terms of reference acceptable to all five member states, in order to resolve the contentious issue of an economic partnership agreement with the European Union, President Jacob Zuma said yesterday.
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7-Oct-2010
Reuters
The European Union and South Korea signed a free-trade deal yesterday that could double trade between them and trigger a rush among Asian states to enter into trade pacts with the EU.
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6-Oct-2010
As DNP+ members were proceeding towards the final “die in”, the Delhi police lathi charged (hit them with sticks) the HIV+ people and finally picked up five of the protestors. Few of the HIV+ people including a person suffering from spinal TB were beaten up by the police.
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6-Oct-2010
Reuters
"On behalf of the president, I am pleased to inform the Congress that we intend to include Malaysia in the ongoing negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement," US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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6-Oct-2010
Bloomberg
Malaysia and the European Union began negotiations on a free trade agreement and a political and cooperation agreement, which may take 18-24 months to conclude.
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6-Oct-2010
Asahi Shimbun
In his Diet policy speech on Friday, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he will consider Japan’s participation in the negotiations for a regional trade pact known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
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6-Oct-2010
ToI
Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) is staging a mass demonstration in front of Udyog Bhavan on Wednesday to protest against the inclusion of intellectual property (IP) provisions in the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) which they fear will affect people’s access to affordable HIV/AIDS drugs.
