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6-Apr-2007
IRC Americas Program
Lately, the US government’s ability to use free trade agreements and trade preference bills as instruments of foreign and economic policy is dwindling.
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6-Apr-2007
Korea Times
"We will most probably see a swifter resolution of the FTA talks, compared with the Korea-US FTA, since there are less sensitivity issues between the two sides," Jurgen Wohler, secretary general of the Korea-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said. He added that it would be satisfactory if the Korea-EU FTA is agreed upon on a similar level to the KORUS FTA.
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6-Apr-2007
Playfuls
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday he will seek to speed up the process for a free trade agreement when he visits South Korea next week.
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5-Apr-2007
Korea Times
The Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA) will increase the number of irregular workers and jobless, according to experts and unionists.
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5-Apr-2007
Yonhap
Beef from Canadian cattle cannot be imported under the free trade pact with the United States, a Korean Agriculture Ministry official said Thursday.
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5-Apr-2007
Hankyoreh
Discouraged by the April 2 settlement of the US-Korea free trade agreement (FTA), a Korean farmer fired upon several others, killing one and injuring another two.
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5-Apr-2007
Yonhap
The Bush administration warned Wednesday it will not sign the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea unless the Asian trading partner fully reopens its beef market.
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5-Apr-2007
Hankyoreh
Seoul says it could be deemed an ‘outward processing zone’; US says no clause in FTA refers to joint Korean industrial complex
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5-Apr-2007
Playfuls
South Korea and India agreed to work towards sealing a comprehensive economic partnership agreement by the end of this year, the Seoul Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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5-Apr-2007
IPS
The European Union has this week sought to increase the likelihood that it will sign controversial free trade agreements with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries by offering to open its markets to virtually all of their agricultural goods.
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5-Apr-2007
Gulf Times
Sacking Indian employees at will could be reduced drastically in Qatar, if not eliminated, when a 1985 bilateral labour agreement is amended soon.
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5-Apr-2007
APF Canada
Canada has taken a new initiative with the recent proposal for an Indo-Canadian Free Trade Agreement.
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4-Apr-2007
LBO
A proposed free-trade deal between Nepal and Sri Lanka could boost trade but analysts say there is more potential for service liberalization.
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4-Apr-2007
Yonhap
South Korea’s finance minister said Wednesday that the government may push to strike a free trade agreement (FTA) with China after it wraps up negotiations with the European Union (EU).
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4-Apr-2007
MCOT
Thailand is ready to expand the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to India if the ASEAN-India FTA talks fail to reach an agreement.
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4-Apr-2007
Hankyoreh
With South Korea and the United States forging a free trade agreement on April 2, civic groups here were ratcheting up their opposition to the economic pact, blaming the government for "giving up our sovereignty in return for nothing."
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4-Apr-2007
CBC
"For the Koreans, the US was a priority so now that that is out of the way, we’re hopeful we’ll reach an agreement in the near future," a Canadian government official said Tuesday.
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4-Apr-2007
USTR
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4-Apr-2007
Yomiuri Shimbun
The Japanese government is likely to reconsider its stance on free trade agreements in light of a pact concluded Monday between South Korea and the United States
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4-Apr-2007
AllAfrica.com
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson admitted that if the EPA negotiation does not finish this year, there are options available which he termed as expensive and not so good.
