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2-Nov-2009
Xinhua
On Oct. 8, the EU said it was ready to sign a Syrian-European partnership agreement on Oct. 26 in Luxembourg. However, Damascus has officially asked to postpone the signing to an unspecified date, saying it needed taking more time to consider the agreement and assess its impact on the Syrian economy.
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2-Nov-2009
AFP
The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) in Taipei is calling for an FTA between the two sides, despite the fact that Japan, like most countries, officially recognizes Beijing instead of Taipei
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2-Nov-2009
Japan Times
Whichever FTA is signed first — Japan’s or the EU’s — will put pressure on the other pair of negotiators to reach pragmatic compromises. The race for India is on.
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2-Nov-2009
Monsters and Critics
New Zealand and the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have concluded a free trade agreement, Trade Minister Tim Groser announced Monday.
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1-Nov-2009
The European Union has finally agreed to initiate talks on Free Trade Agreement with Pakistan and the first round of negotiations would be held in February 2010.
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31-Oct-2009
Dow Jones Newswires
Occidental is seeking $3.2 billion in damages for Ecuador’s May 2006 decision to cancel the company’s operating contract
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31-Oct-2009
Taiwan News
Pellegrin argued that the sooner Taiwan signs an ECFA with China, the quicker political impediments to other countries, including the EU, signing economic agreements with Taiwan will be removed.
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31-Oct-2009
Economic Times
Sources say that the two sides are nowhere close to an agreement.
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30-Oct-2009
China has signalled it wants fast progress on stalled free trade agreement talks with Australia and to use the "unique" relationship between the countries as a model for Beijing’s relations with other countries.
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30-Oct-2009
In Defence of Marxism
The European Union, along with powers like the USA and Japan, has long had a policy of establishing economic relations with former colonies that impose the will of imperialism on the economic development of these countries. Supposedly instruments designed for “poverty alleviation”; in reality their main purpose is to open the markets of these poorer countries to goods flowing in from the advanced capitalist nations.
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30-Oct-2009
ICTSD
Officials from Canada and the European Union held their first official round of free trade talks last week, kicking off a five-round process that the parties say should take about two years to complete.
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30-Oct-2009
The benefits of the New Zealand-China free trade deal have been overshadowed by the high dollar and plunging export values in September, figures from Statistics New Zealand show.
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30-Oct-2009
John Key will make a bold pitch for a free-trade agreement between Japan and New Zealand when he meets Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama late tonight in Tokyo.
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29-Oct-2009
ANN
As China and Taiwan inch towards a free trade agreement, questions are being raised about how much of a role politics will play in the deal.
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29-Oct-2009
AFP
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has voiced hopes of reaching a free-trade agreement with the United States following a decision by the island to allow more US beef imports, a report said Wednesday.
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29-Oct-2009
Gulf Daily News
MPs yesterday voted to jail for up to five years any Bahraini who deals directly with Israel and to resurrect the Israeli Boycott Office, closed to make way for the Free Trade Agreement with the US.
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28-Oct-2009
The Hindu
India and the US on Monday agreed to fast-track and conclude within a given timeframe agreements on enhancing and deepening trade and investment engagement, and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) cooperation agreement and an agreement for putting in place traditional knowledge digital library.
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28-Oct-2009
NZ MOFAT
The Malaysia-New Zealand FTA was signed on 26 October 2009.
The agreement consists of:
The text of the agreement (PDF 304KB) containing commitments on Goods, Services, Investment, Movement of Business People, Intellectual Property, Economic Cooperation, Competition, Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, Technical Barriers to Trade, Rules of Origin, Customs Cooperation, Trade Remedies, Dispute Settlement, Transparency, Institutional Provisions, General Exceptions and Final Provisions. (...)
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27-Oct-2009
Europolitics
Following the conclusion of an FTA with South Korea, the European Commission’s Chief Negotiator, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, has stepped up efforts to reinvigorate the trade negotiations with India. However, two key contentious issues are standing in the way of further progress, namely tariff liberalisation and public procurement.
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27-Oct-2009
KSMTF
The anger among the Fishworkers, in the face of such a monstrous Agreement, was elaborated by T. Peter (President, KSMTF): “The Fishing Community in Kerala will take all measures to stop this agreement, and will physically prevent any vessel carrying fish from the ASEAN nations from entering Cochin Harbour”.
