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20-Jul-2010
Deutsche Welle
EU parliamentarians have called on the Commission to look into Colombian intelligence operations in Europe designed to ‘neutralize the influence’ of critics of the Colombian government in parliament, the UNHCR and NGOs. EU officials fear that an investigation could torpedo ratification of the free-trade agreement, which they see as crucial support of Colombia.
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19-Jul-2010
Edmonton Journal
The reality is that Canada wants CETA more than Europe needs it. Europe recognizes this and will use its leverage to extract a high price.
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15-Jul-2010
Reuters
South Korea is ready to consider "creative" solutions to open its market to more US beef and auto imports to help win US approval of a bilateral free trade agreement, South Korea’s ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday.
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15-Jul-2010
New Era
The Namibian beef industry has come to terms with the fact that it has to look for alternatives, as there exist no concrete indications that the government will sign the controversial trade agreement with the EU.
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14-Jul-2010
Global Research
Last week, when the presidents of the countries involved in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) were meeting here in Ecuador, they talked about indigenous rights. But the main representatives of the indigenous movement in the country, CONAIE, was never invited to the meeting.
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13-Jul-2010
IPS
Two years after 14 Caribbean countries signed a wide-ranging and controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo still maintains that his country was right in holding out until the last minute to get a "better deal" for the Caribbean.
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12-Jul-2010
TNI
This report is a clear and plain language guide to the EU’s neoliberal investment regime, which has seen the EU Commission prying open poor, vulnerable countries’ economies, stripping their citizens of social, labour or environmental rights, for the sake of big business and its profits; it explains what is wrong with the current regime and presents a number of ethical alternatives.
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12-Jul-2010
FT
The European Commission wants to replace a thicket of about 1,200 bilateral investment treaties signed by the EU’s 27 member states over five decades with far fewer treaties binding the entire bloc.
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12-Jul-2010
AFP
The United States has ruled out a free trade agreement with Taiwan amid a dispute over beef imports, days after the island signed a sweeping accord with longtime adversary China.
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12-Jul-2010
Edmonton Journal
Canadian and European Union negotiators open a new round of talks Monday on an ambitious free-trade agreement amid uncertainty about whether both sides — and in particular the Ontario and Quebec governments — are prepared to make politically sensitive concessions.
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9-Jul-2010
Politis
Des négociations autour d’un accord de libre-échange entre l’Union européenne et le Canada sont prévues du 12 au 16 juillet à Bruxelles. Quels en sont les enjeux ? Quelles en seront les conséquences ?
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8-Jul-2010
In the next few months European Union governments will have to decide whether to ratify a free-trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea that is described by the EU’s external-trade directorate as “one of the most ambitious and complete deals” it has ever signed.
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8-Jul-2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here today urged the Developing-8 member states to evolve their own mechanism for establishing a D-8 Free Trade Area (FTA) to increase trade and business.
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8-Jul-2010
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Shear said Wednesday that Taiwan, as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) , is eligible to negotiate free trade agreements (FTA) with other WTO member states.
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8-Jul-2010
U.S. President Obama said Wednesday he will submit the pending free trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia to Congress as soon as possible so their implementation could help create jobs and double U.S. exports within five years.
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7-Jul-2010
swissinfo
Swiss President Doris Leuthard and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have decided to begin negotiations over a comprehensive accord between Efta and Indonesia.
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7-Jul-2010
WFN
Opening the floodgates to Chinese products will lead to mass
unemployment among Aborigines and pose great challenges to ordinary Taiwanese farmers as well, say Aborigine pastors in Taiwan.
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7-Jul-2010
The Canadian parliament has ratified a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia that gives a major competitor an immediate price advantage in a market where US wheat exports had earned a dominant market share, says the US wheat industry
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7-Jul-2010
Business Day
SA will not pursue a conventional free-trade agreement with China as this is not in the interests of the country, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says.
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6-Jul-2010
dpa
Trade negotiations between Singapore and the European Union are on track with an agreement expected by next year, an EU official said Tuesday.
