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1-Jul-2009
Straight.com
All senators but one were more concerned about investor protections for Canadian oil and mining companies, and why Canada did not get as good a deal as the US on pork and other agricultural exports, than they were with the fact that communities in the Amazon were protesting against the current and future presence of these very corporations on their ancestral lands.
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1-Jul-2009
Reuters
Gulf Arab states and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) moved toward building a trade bloc based on food and oil at a joint meeting of foreign ministers on Tuesday.
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30-Jun-2009
Upside Down World
Nation-wide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya — a defender of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA) and of Honduran workers and peasants, according to Via Campesina — be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression.
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30-Jun-2009
DN!
"I reiterate, we’re not negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union."
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30-Jun-2009
The Hindu
Pakistan and Nepal are considering a free-trade agreement, said the Pakistan Foreign Ministry on Monday.
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30-Jun-2009
EU Observer
The coup throws a curve ball at EU plans to wrap up an Association Agreement with the six-country Central American bloc this year, whose members included Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
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30-Jun-2009
Yonhap
South Korea and Japan will hold a working-level meeting this week to look into ways to resume stalled negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), Seoul’s trade ministry said Tuesday.
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30-Jun-2009
Colombia Reports
US President Barack Obama said Monday following a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, that he is confident that a free trade agreement with Colombia can ultimately be reached.
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30-Jun-2009
Clayton Utz
Some managed investment funds may not be able to seek protection under bilateral investment treaties when investing abroad, according to a recent award rendered in an investment treaty arbitration between a various Spanish investment funds and the Russian Federation (Renta 4 S.V.S.A v Russian Federation).
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30-Jun-2009
The Hindu
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry is pushing for a Free Trade Agreement with the United States without agriculture to bypass differences over farm subsidies.
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29-Jun-2009
DNA
Japan is lobbying India through an FTA to make patent infringement a criminal liability, whereby the state will be obliged to taken action against generic drug companies.
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29-Jun-2009
Yonhap
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Sunday called for the early conclusion of a free trade agreement (FTA) between their countries, hoping increased cooperation will help them overcome the current global economic crisis.
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29-Jun-2009
Bernama
The Indian Government is likely to approve next week a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea aimed at opening markets of both the countries to each other
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29-Jun-2009
TWN
The European Union’s demands on India to take on higher intellectual property (IP) standards, if adopted, could spell disaster for the supply of low-cost generic medicines, undermine India’s development and set a significant precedent for the future of IPR protection globally, cautioned Dr Carlos M. Correa, an expert on IP and the WTO TRIPS Agreement.
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29-Jun-2009
Vancouver Sun
Canada on Sunday signed a deal with Jordan that lifts tariffs on the vast majority of its exports as part of a push for increased trade with the Middle East.
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27-Jun-2009
The Namibian
The European Commission (EC) has lashed out at Namibia’s Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob, claiming he knew all along that they would not give written assurances on the concessions on infant industry protection, food security, export taxes and the free flow of goods agreed to in the interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) negotiations.
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26-Jun-2009
GNA
Dr Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, Trade Programme Co-ordinator for Civil Society Organizations in West Africa, is sure that negotiations would probably continue till January 2010 since both the EU and ECOWAS had not agreed on the percentage of the market they intend to be liberalized.
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26-Jun-2009
IPS
Right now, the EU’s EPAs are devastating Africa’s regional economic blocs through divide-and-conquer, reversing the resistance we saw from African countries a year ago.
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26-Jun-2009
AllAfrica.com
The European Union and the West African countries have agreed to conclude a regional agreement on trade in goods and development cooperation by October 2009.
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26-Jun-2009
Jakarta Post
Indonesian and New Zealand Free Trade Agreement talks under the auspices of the ASEAN bloc have been progressing well despite the economic crisis and both countries expect the bilateral arrangement can be concluded within months, say foreign ministers.
