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11-Mar-2009
Chosun Ilbo
The US trade representative-designate on Monday said Washington’s free trade agreement with Seoul was unfair in its current state and warned his government could ditch the deal. The FTA "as it is just simply isn’t fair, and if we don’t get that right we’ll be prepared to step away from that," Ron Kirk said in his confirmation hearing at the US Senate Finance Committee.
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10-Mar-2009
When it comes to further advancing free trade initiatives, it really makes no difference which party controls, congress or the presidency.
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10-Mar-2009
COHA
Costa Rica and China may seem to be an unlikely pairing; however, both governments have moved to deepen their ties and cement regional integration based on the pursuit of a free trade agreement, which was brought a step closer by the completion of the first round of negotiations on January 19.
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10-Mar-2009
Jakarta Post
Six years of negotiations have yet to convince India to sign a much-awaited free trade deal with ASEAN, as scheduled last week during the group’s summit. India would only ink a deal after it concludes its April general elections.
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9-Mar-2009
Scoop
New Zealand research and education network ARENA today welcomed news that the United States has postponed trade negotiations with New Zealand pending an overall review of US trade policy, and says that the New Zealand government should follow suit.
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9-Mar-2009
The Hindu
India and Nepal are seeking to update their nearly 60-year-old trade treaty with the new draft expected to be ready before India goes to staggered polls from April 16.
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9-Mar-2009
Taiwan News
Taiwan’s main opposition party vehemently opposes President Ma Ying-jeou’s push for closer relations with China, including a proposed FTA. But the Democratic Progressive Party is so enfeebled that it can’t do much about it.
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9-Mar-2009
La Estrella
Around 350 US national, state and local groups from religious to environmental sectors, representing a combined total membership of 18 million, sent a letter to the House of Representatives asking lawmakers not to ratify the free trade agreement between Panama and the United States, insisting that Panama’s economy thrives on banking secrecy and money laundering
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8-Mar-2009
Daily Times
Pakistan’s Ministry of Investment (MoI) is hopeful for the completion of mutually agreed final draft of Pak-US Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) by April this year, as bilateral consultations on unresolved issues have already started afresh.
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8-Mar-2009
Stuff
Just weeks from the start of talks on a trans-Pacific partnership deal, encompassing New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Brunei and the United States, President Barack Obama has put the talks on hold.
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8-Mar-2009
OpEd News
It came out during the Canadian election in October of 2008, that the Conservative government was set to begin negotiations with the European Union (EU) on deeper economic integration
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7-Mar-2009
Radio Taiwan International
In response to fierce criticism over a trade pact the government may sign with China, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan has pledged that Taiwan’s sovereignty will not be affected by such a deal and that no Chinese workers will be introduced to Taiwan.
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7-Mar-2009
TSMC Chairman Morris Chang endorsed the government’s plan to sign free trade pacts with Taiwan’s major trading partners, saying Saturday that it would not be "too late" to sign a proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China by the end of this year.
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7-Mar-2009
Joong Ang Daily
The European Union’s trade chief is confident she can convince member states to back a free trade pact with Korea, despite fierce opposition from the bloc’s embattled car industry.
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6-Mar-2009
IHT
Serbia says it plans to sign a free trade agreement with Iran to boost economic cooperation.
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6-Mar-2009
It is clear that Canada must lessen its dependency on the U.S., but if future free trade deals are based on the failed NAFTA model, they could prove costly.
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6-Mar-2009
Global Trade Watch
What right does the Australian government have to impose a free trade agreement on the peoples of ASEAN, without any sort of systems in place to represent their views or interests (rather than the views or interests of their rulers) in negotiations? And how many Australians want a free trade agreement with vicious, murderous regimes like Burma’s military junta anyway?
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6-Mar-2009
Radio New Zealand
Meat & Wool New Zealand describes the prospect of a free trade agreement between New Zealand and South Korea as a "big deal" for domestic beef producers.
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6-Mar-2009
Modern Ghana
A regional Economic Partnership Agreement encompassing the West African region is expected to be signed later this year as negotiations are far advanced for a draft agreement in June 2009, and subsequently a full pact by the end of the year, the outgoing Head of the EU Delegation to Ghana has hinted.
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6-Mar-2009
Toronto Star
The federal government hopes to open formal negotiations within months toward a free-trade deal with the European Union.
