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11-Sep-2009
Business Standard
Ahead of the next round of talks on a bilateral trade treaty with India, the European Union today said it was keen that the comprehensive pact included government procurement agreement, which India has resisted so far.
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11-Sep-2009
EU Observer
EU diplomats in Brussels on Thursday (10 September) put off a decision on signing an Association Agreement with Syria until October at the earliest. EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels next week were due to discuss the pact. But it was dropped from the agenda after the Netherlands said it would veto the existing text on human rights grounds.
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11-Sep-2009
CIP Americas Program
Mexico has been considered the laboratory of globalization since it initiated the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. In April of 2009 a deadly virus germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions to move quickly into a global pandemic.
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11-Sep-2009
CIP Americas Program
North American leaders may wish to distance themselves from the obvious failure of NAFTA to better the lives of their citizens, but Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. citizens continue to press for a comprehensive review and renegotiation. This article explains why that task is more urgent than ever in today’s global crisis.
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11-Sep-2009
NUPGE
Legislation to implement the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) (Bill C-23) may be the first order of business in the House of Commons when MPs return Monday after their summer recess.
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11-Sep-2009
Joong Ang Daily
Negotiations on a three-way free investment pact started in January 2007, with the seventh roundtable held in July.
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11-Sep-2009
The Dominion
Below, a call to action from the folks managing the Stop the Canada Colombia FTA group on Facebook.
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10-Sep-2009
Members of the business community here have been urged to exploit opportunities offered by the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to bolster their enterprises and invigorate the country’s economy.
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10-Sep-2009
The Committee to Support US Trade Laws and its affiliated organizations today submitted comments to the Office of the US Trade Representative regarding the proposed US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, strongly objecting to the antidumping and countervailing duty provisions of the section on trade remedies
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10-Sep-2009
South Korea and New Zealand will hold the second round of bilateral free trade talks next week, South Korean trade ministry said Thursday.
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10-Sep-2009
Xinhua
South Korea and the European Union will initial their bilateral free trade agreement in October as the both sides completed legal reviews of the deal this week, Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Thursday.
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10-Sep-2009
Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman called for freer movements of capital and labour among the first steps for greater financial integration of South Asian nations, speaking at a global banking conference in India on Wednesday.
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9-Sep-2009
India and Taiwan would resume talks for signing a free trade agreement soon, a representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in New Delhi said on Wednesday.
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9-Sep-2009
Thailand will be left behind Singapore and Vietnam if the government delays its decision to begin free-trade talks with the EU, ambassadors from the bloc warned yesterday.
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9-Sep-2009
SA is expected to reiterate its objections to the economic partnership agreements signed between the European Union (EU) and three members of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu), which it believes will have disruptive effects, at a summit in Kleinmond on Friday.
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9-Sep-2009
State Minister Mehmet Aydin said that Turkey is eager to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with India to further improve the two countries bilateral ties, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported.
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9-Sep-2009
Manila Bulletin
"When the USTR tried to have discussion with the Philippines on TIFA (Trade and Investment Facilitation Agreement) not much happened there because there is a perception that the Philippines is a protectionist and not really interested in opening up and that makes it so difficult," says the US Chamber of Commerce.
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9-Sep-2009
Tico Times
Both accords are expected to be finalized within the first half of 2010.
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8-Sep-2009
The Peninsula
Egypt has asked the United States to expand preferential trade industrial export zones in southern Egypt, but a bilateral free trade deal is “off the table” for now, Trade Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid said yesterday.
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8-Sep-2009
Antara
More than 90 percent of Japan’s banana import comes from the Philippines, where Sumitomo Corp. has been operating for 40 years. Sumitomo’s profit quadrupled to Y 1.7 billion in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, boosted by the morning banana diet.
