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26-Oct-2007
Radio New Zealand
New Zealand Trade Minister Phil Goff will be pushing forward with a proposal for a study into a free-trade agreement with India when he meets representatives of the Indian business community on Friday. Mr Goff says India is potentially a huge market for New Zealand and is becoming even more significant with growth of between 8% and 9% every year.
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26-Oct-2007
China Daily
China and Costa Rica said they will conduct a feasibility study on a free trade agreement — four months after the two established formal diplomatic ties.
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25-Oct-2007
Tico Times
As negotiations between the European Union and Central America over an association agreement kicked off this week, so did something else: opposition.
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25-Oct-2007
Alliance for Democracy
Democracy in Costa Rica was undermined after several violations to costarrican law.
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25-Oct-2007
Business Daily Africa
A landmark case has entered the Kenyan corridors of justice as a group of farmers and a human rights watchdog move to challenge the State over ongoing negotiations for a new trade agreement with Europe.
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25-Oct-2007
GMANews
Some 2,000 Filipino nurses holding a convention in Cagayan de Oro lit candles and prayed on Wednesday for the Philippine Senate to reject the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement.
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25-Oct-2007
AC
Friends of the Earth MedNet has lodged a fierce protest against European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson for his part in attempting to establish a free trade zone encompassing the countries around the Mediterranean, including non-EU member countries.
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24-Oct-2007
DG Trade
For the European Commission, the end of 2007 represents a firm deadline for negotiating the goods market access element of the Economic Partnership Agreements
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24-Oct-2007
Jakarta Post
A free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association would be of benefit to Indonesia, Switzerland’s trade negotiator Ambassador Christian Etter says.
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24-Oct-2007
Guardian
Peter Mandelson is feeling misunderstood. As EU trade commissioner, he stands accused of being a neo-colonialist trying to railroad through Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries within the next few weeks.
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24-Oct-2007
Red Bolivia
Choquehuanca’s trip has the purpose of open better markets that go beyond the Free Trade Agreement signed with Mexico ten years ago.
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24-Oct-2007
Radio Zealand International
Taiwan says the bilateral trade agreement it signed with Vanuatu in 2004 still needs to be implemented. However the current Government led by Ham Lini is a staunch supporter of the One China Policy.
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24-Oct-2007
Chosun Ilbo
Korea’s ambassador to Washington Lee Tae-sik believes the free trade agreement between Korea and the US will be ratified sometime next year.
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24-Oct-2007
Reuters
Sarkozy said he hoped Morocco would play a "leading role" in a Mediterranean Union.
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24-Oct-2007
CAW
If the Canadian federal government proceeds with a free trade agreement with Korea as promised, the impact on Canadian communities would be disastrous, according to a new study released by the CAW on October 23.
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24-Oct-2007
Canada Press
The Canadian Auto Workers has called on the three opposition parties in Ottawa to vote down any Canada-Korea free trade agreement in order to save Canadian jobs. CAW’s internal analysis predicts the trade deal would cost over 33,000 jobs.
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24-Oct-2007
Reuters
Canada is entering a difficult final phase of free-trade negotiations with South Korea and needs to secure a deal if it wants to be able to compete with the United States in Asia, Trade Minister David Emerson said on Tuesday.
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24-Oct-2007
Kahbrein Info
"This (FTA) will be one of the easier agreements to conclude," India’s commerce minister Kamal Nath said. But European NGOs’ recent campaigns against Indian industries, accusing them of violating human rights and labour laws, are not helping.
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23-Oct-2007
McGill Daily
"Atlantica" seems a rather fabulous name for something as unsexy as a trade initiative, but the tale of how it came to the activist community’s attention is nearly as mythic.
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23-Oct-2007
The Statesman
Even as India works towards an India-European Union economic partnership agreement, bilateral relations with Finland need to be strengthened with greater contact between the people of the two countries, the Union commerce and trade minister, Mr Kamal Nath said.
