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11-Apr-2007
The European Union celebrated its 50th birthday on March 25, since the signing of the founding Rome treaty, a pact originally comprising six Western European nations. France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sealed an economic co-operation that was meant to avoid future wars.
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11-Apr-2007
Civil society organisations and the business community in southern Africa have called for review of trade policies in order to deepen regional integration.
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11-Apr-2007
Mexican Economy Secretary Eduardo Sojo said the U.S.-led Free Trade Area of the Americas scheme is likely to remain stalled in the foreseeable future as negotiations between the United States and the leftist-dominated South America on the issue have been deadlocked for the past few years.
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11-Apr-2007
Dominican Industries Association (AIRD) president Manuel Díez said yesterday that the fact that the authorities have yet to create the mechanisms to apply Law 01-02 on Unfair Business Practices is shameful, despite that it was approved more than five years ago.
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11-Apr-2007
The free trade agreement between India and Thailand is likely to be signed by June-end. Both the countries had signed a framework agreement for establishing a free trade area in 2003 as a consequence of which tariffs were brought down in 82 items of common export interest from September 2004.
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11-Apr-2007
AFP
South Korea has been reluctant to rush into an FTA with China amid fears that cheap food could flood the domestic market. But South Korean officials said they would now consider starting free trade talks with China, after Seoul and Washington sealed a trade agreement last week.
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11-Apr-2007
Hankyoreh
With US beef import tariffs to be relaxed, Korean beef farmers watch prices drop
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11-Apr-2007
The Canadian
The notion that NAFTA has been good for average Canadians, Americans and Mexicans is a lie. The truth is that NAFTA has been responsible for growing poverty, the creation of a new underclass called the “working poor,” and the concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
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10-Apr-2007
IRIS
India and South Korea have concluded the sixth round of negotiations on their proposed free trade agreement. Meanwhile, the second round of talks between India and Japan on their proposed comprehensive economic partnership agreement started in Tokyo today.
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10-Apr-2007
FreshPlaza
Sunkist has long urged the United States government to undertake an FTA with Korea to reduce its tariffs on US citrus. Mike Wootton, Sunkist senior vice president of corporate relations, was in Seoul, in constant consultations with US negotiators, during the final two-week session as citrus issues were tabled.
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10-Apr-2007
Sun2Surf
It is difficult to identify what benefits the proposed US FTA holds for Malaysia. Supporters of the deal have trotted out the usual platitudes. However, large numbers of people remain unconvinced of these arguments.
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10-Apr-2007
Taiwan’s Council for Economic Planning and Development estimates show that the FTA between the US and South Korea will have a US$2 billion impact on Taiwan, or approximately 5 percent of its total exports, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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10-Apr-2007
A controversy is growing as the government continues to deny claims from opposition lawmakers that economic polarization will worsen in the wake of a South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA).
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10-Apr-2007
TWN
Dr. Michael K Hansen, from US Centre of Consumer Policy, advises a cautious attitude towards an FTA with the US as the US has a hidden agenda in seeking to protect its farmers who now face more than RM4.6 billion in losses due to the lack of demand for GE rice.
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9-Apr-2007
The Coordinating Office for Trade Negotiations is in charge of taking the country into a free trade deal with the European Union before the end of the year.
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9-Apr-2007
IHT
South Korea said Monday that a free trade agreement covering goods with nine of the ten members of Association of Southeast Asian Nations will take effect on June 1.
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9-Apr-2007
Japan and India have opened a second round of talks on a free trade deal that the two countries aim to seal within two years.
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9-Apr-2007
With a slim victory in the recent provincial election under his belt, Quebec Premier Jean Charest hopes to herd the feds and other provinces towards a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the 27-member European Union.
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9-Apr-2007
It would be difficult to overstate the likely impact on Taiwan of last week’s free-trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US, because South Korea and Taiwan produce many similar products and are rivals in key industrial sectors.
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9-Apr-2007
Catholics in a rural South Korean diocese have protested their government’s "unpardonable" free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, warning that an influx of US imports would destroy local farming communities.
