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27-Oct-2010
Chosun Ilbo
The National Intelligence Service is investigating the leak of confidential documents containing Korea’s strategy for additional FTA negotiations to the US, a senior government source said Tuesday.
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26-Oct-2010
A draft guideline prepared on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has strongly suggested against striking FTAs with developed countries, but the same has encouraged similar deals with the countries having demand for Bangladeshi manpower, official sources said.
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26-Oct-2010
Sify
India and Japan today signed agreements to boost mutual trade, investment and strategic partnership between the two major economies of Asia.
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26-Oct-2010
CNW
Un nouvel accord de libre-échange entre le Canada et l’Union européenne représenterait un pas en arrière dans la lutte aux changements climatiques, ce qui devrait constituer une raison suffisante pour que le gouvernement fédéral cesse les pourparlers, selon Amber Church, directrice nationale de la Coalition canadienne des jeunes pour le climat.
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26-Oct-2010
Press TV
Iran and Kenya plan to sign an agreement to promote relations in various fields of tourism and establish a free trade zone, Iranian Vice President Hamid Baqaei says.
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26-Oct-2010
LIP
Peru will sign its free trade agreement with Thailand during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Japan next month.
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26-Oct-2010
AFP
The United States vowed an all-out effort to finalize a free trade agreement with South Korea as the two nations meet Tuesday, despite criticism of President Barack Obama within his own ranks.
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26-Oct-2010
Reuters
The US welcomes Japan’s new interest in joining negotiations on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would require it to tackle tough US agriculture and other concerns, a senior US State Department official said yesterday.
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25-Oct-2010
Mainichi News
The Japanese government is set to include a reference to Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in its economic partnership agreement guidelines that are soon expected to receive Cabinet approval.
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25-Oct-2010
Yomiuri Shimbun
The European Commission is showing a forward-looking stance over signing a free trade agreement with Japan in a document on EU trade policy, scheduled to be adopted on Nov. 9, EU sources said.
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25-Oct-2010
TNI
This FDCL/TNI publication contains an overview of the FTA’s history, of human rights violations in Colombia and Peru as well as a critical analysis of the draft agreement which recently leaked to the public.
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22-Oct-2010
Reuters
Japan’s economics minister said on Friday that Tokyo should join a US-led Asia-Pacific free trade initiative to keep its firms from fleeing abroad, despite a backlash in the ruling party against the proposed deal.
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22-Oct-2010
EV
The European Parliament has postponed a vote on attaching safeguards to a free-trade deal between the EU and South Korea because of disagreements with the European Commission and member states.
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22-Oct-2010
MercoPress
Members of the European Parliament expressed strong support for expanding trade with Mercosur but subject to clear “red lines” to ensure food security and prevent further environmental damage, said a resolution adopted on Thursday.
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22-Oct-2010
Epoch Times
With the fifth round of talks in the proposed Canada-EU free trade agreement taking place this week in Ottawa, the National Farmers Union has launched a campaign against the deal, saying it threatens the democratic rights of Canadians.
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21-Oct-2010
Le Devoir
English version of a letter published in Le Devoir on October 20, 2010, cosigned by Naomi Klein, José Bové, Maude Barlow, Susan George, etc.
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21-Oct-2010
Yonhap
Business leaders from Korea and China agreed yesterday to cooperate for an early launch of free trade negotiations between the two countries, the Federation of Korean Industries said yesterday.
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21-Oct-2010
PDI
"I believe that the time is ripe for the Philippines and the EU to look seriously at a possible bilateral FTA, not as an alternative to an EU-Asean FTA, but as an important building block towards that goal," says EU Ambassador Alistair MacDonald
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20-Oct-2010
Messenger
On October 15 Georgian law enforcers detained Israeli businessmen offering Deputy Minister of Finance, Avtandil Kharadze USD 7 million for him to convince the Georgian Government not to challenge a decision of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
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20-Oct-2010
Reuters
"This [deal] opens the door for Bolivians to have an international port, to the use of the ocean for global trade and for Bolivian products to have better access to global markets," Evo Morales said after signing the agreement.
