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19-Mar-2007
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The United States government on Friday all but ruled out the chances of a free trade deal with Malaysia before a crucial deadline expires in two weeks.
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18-Mar-2007
A review of the Singapore-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has concluded very satisfactorily.
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18-Mar-2007
Trade Minister Phil Goff leaves for Mexico this morning to push for a trade deal that could boost exports to New Zealand’s fourth largest market dairy market.
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18-Mar-2007
New Zealand faces several barriers to getting a free trade deal with the United States, Prime Minister Helen Clark says.
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18-Mar-2007
The hoped for trade cooperation in South Asia remains a dream, six decades down the line. Even the much trumpeted South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA), by some accounts, seems to be sailing down to the sea — the Indian Ocean — unless the region’s leaders cooperate.
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18-Mar-2007
Malaysia is not bound by any timeframe to give a decision on the issues at stake in the ongoing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with the United States, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Sunday.
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17-Mar-2007
The European Union said it wants to complete new trade agreements with 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries by the end of the year despite opposition from developing countries.
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17-Mar-2007
Helen Clark needs to muscle up to George Bush this week and directly push the case for a bilateral free trade deal with the United States.
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17-Mar-2007
India and ASEAN are likely to finalise and exchange their negative lists (items to be excluded) when they meet to conclude negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement at a three-day meeting in Jakarta from Tuesday.
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17-Mar-2007
The ministry of commerce on Friday claimed that after the enforcement of the Pakistan-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, bilateral trade has doubled, without giving any figures in this regard.
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17-Mar-2007
There are growing voices of opposition within the National Assembly to a free trade pact with the United States. On Friday, 38 legislators signed a statement saying the "best thing we can do at the current juncture is to immediately halt FTA negotiations that have hastily been pursued because the government is trying to meet the U.S.-set negotiation time limit."
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17-Mar-2007
Business Week
Foreign energy investors said on Friday that they warned the Dominican Republic it had to mend its crippled power sector months before filing a US$680 million (euro510 million) lawsuit against the country for lost electricity revenue.
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17-Mar-2007
The New Anatolian
Dutch investment company Saba Fakes, who claim to hold the biggest part of shares of Turkey’s second big GSM operator Telsim, is preparing to file an arbitration case at International Arbitration amounting to 19 billion dollars in reparations.
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17-Mar-2007
AHN
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come under increasing pressure from Japan’s farming sector not to sign a free trade deal involving agriculture with Australia.
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16-Mar-2007
The taxation environment in the GCC may be on the cusp of significant change.
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16-Mar-2007
While a group of us were waiting anxiously at the entrance of Prime Minister’s office at about 8.45 am today, suddenly we heard a loud chanting in the air and then we realized about 500 over people were walking from the Putrajaya mosque towards where we are standing and made one full circle around the PM office before the crowd stopped at the front gate of the PM office.
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16-Mar-2007
The Finnish government said in a statement Wednesday that the European commission had brought legal action against Finland.
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16-Mar-2007
A study has been commissioned by the government to rationalise various provisions in Rules of Origins (RoO) contained in many agreements
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16-Mar-2007
The lead US negotiator on a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea said Friday the two countries can meet the end-of-March deadline, although they "still have a long way to go."
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16-Mar-2007
In talks with a farmers’ group in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, Park Hong-soo said beef must not be sacrificed for the sake of a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.
