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23-Mar-2007
The United States hopes the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Qatar will make some headway this year, a senior American official has said.
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23-Mar-2007
Yonhap
A weary yet defiant looking Korean labor party leader has been a fixture in front of the president’s office for more than two weeks, on a hunger strike against South Korea’s imminent free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. "FTA, I believe, only stands for ’For The Americans’," Moon Sung-hyun said.
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23-Mar-2007
European Parliament
Given the delay in the talks and the lack of readiness on the part of the ACP countries, MEPs in the Trade Committee called in a report on Wednesday for the Commission to make the conditions for the agreements less onerous.
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23-Mar-2007
Asia Times
Japan’s new free-trade agreements (FTAs) with Southeast Asian countries symbolize a new era in regional economic ties — a move from the old "big brother" relationship to a series of bilateral partnerships that could represent the first step toward a future single Asian market.
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23-Mar-2007
Chosun Ilbo
Korea’s first free trade agreement with Chile, right on the other side of the globe, went into effect on April 1, 2004, bringing significant changes. We enjoy good, cheap Chilean wine and samgyeopsal (fresh bacon), while in Chile, Korean-made mobile phones are a big hit. But our trade deficit increased due to greater raw material imports and over 13,000 Korean farmers sustained harm. So what have been the most significant effects?
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23-Mar-2007
The Statesman
India and Japan today agreed to work for a bilateral free trade agreement by early 2009, enhance cooperation between their navies to strengthen maritime security and hold their first ever policy dialogue in the energy sector.
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23-Mar-2007
KAWAN
Join Korean Americans Against War and Neoliberalism (KAWAN) and the Korean Alliance Against the Korus FTA (KoA) in waging a global hunger strike against the Korea-United States free trade agreement (KorUS FTA) and the Bush free trade agenda.
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23-Mar-2007
Namibia and Zambia have signed two agreements — one on political consultation between their foreign affairs ministries and another on the establishment of a dry port facility at Walvis Bay.
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22-Mar-2007
Pursuing the case of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union and enhancement of bilateral trade and economic relations would be the agenda of the two days visit of Pakistan federal minister for Commerce Humayun Akhtar Khan to the UK starting Friday.
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22-Mar-2007
Peru’s foreign trade minister on Wednesday expressed confidence that progress will be made this month toward clinching US congressional approval of a Peruvian-US free trade pact.
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22-Mar-2007
A persistent problem in international trade between Canada and the United States comes in an unexpected commodity — not wheat, lumber or beef, but securities, through U.S. rules that raise barriers to buying them.
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22-Mar-2007
Prime Minister Helen Clark has left Washington claiming a successful visit, despite failing to gain any new commitments on trade or on future military cooperation.
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22-Mar-2007
Public opinion and political analysts say that an inter-Korean summit and the Korea-US free trade agreement will be the biggest issues during the presidential elections this year.
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22-Mar-2007
Korea’s chief negotiator, Kim Jong-hoon, answered, “Though it is like climbing one of the highest mountains, we can reach a deal,” when questioned about the progress of negotiations.
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22-Mar-2007
Foreign ministers of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) announced at the conclusion of their 26th round in Rabat that they would establish a Maghreb investment and trade bank owned by the central banks of the five AMU member states (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Mauritania) with an initial capital of $1 billion, i.e. sevenfold the total assets of their commercial banks.
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22-Mar-2007
India and Japan today agreed to work for a bilateral free trade agreement by early 2009, enhance cooperation between their navies to strengthen maritime security and hold their first ever policy dialogue in the energy sector.
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22-Mar-2007
The Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement between Sri Lanka and Australia came into force with effect from March 14 with the completion by the Australian authorities of its domestic procedures for the entry into force of the Agreement.
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22-Mar-2007
A US company mining gold in Armenia has initiated an international arbitration of its bitter dispute with Environment Minister Vartan Ayvazian whom it accuses of corruption and other violations of the law.
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22-Mar-2007
Ahead of the Saarc summit here in April, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday cautioned Pakistan against non-compliance with Saarc Free Trade Area (Safta). He urged Islamabad to revise its position to ensure that global commitments undertaken by the latter were complied with.
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22-Mar-2007
Sri Lanka and India will hold another round of trade talks in Colombo next week on liberalizing professional services, investments and trade in goods.
