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19-Mar-2006
The last meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint Economic Commission discussed the formation of a free trade area (FTA) between the two countries. The FTA offer was made earlier by India. Bangladesh has only scrutinised different aspects of the proposal so far.
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18-Mar-2006
Arab News
A free trade agreement (FTA) between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union is within reach, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson told Arab News in a telephone interview from EU headquarters in Brussels.
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17-Mar-2006
Financial Post
With the world’s two big multi-country trade liberalization talks stumbling or moribund, Canada’s new government should fire up action on bilateral and smaller regional free-trade deals.
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17-Mar-2006
Delta Farm Press
If Colombia negotiates trade provisions with a third country that provides better access for rice than provided in the FTA with the United States, US rice automatically receives the same preferential tariffs.
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17-Mar-2006
AP
The leader of Ecuador’s main Indian movement on Thursday rejected President Alfredo Palacio’s call to end protests against free-trade talks with the United States.
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17-Mar-2006
Zawya
The UAE and New Zealand are expected to begin talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) tomorrow, a top Govennment official said.
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17-Mar-2006
Daily News
Singapore is keen on entering into an FTA with Sri Lanka, Minister of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion Rohitha Bogollagama said on Wednesday.
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17-Mar-2006
People’s Daily
The Saharan states have called for free trade agreements to help the region achieve peace, stability and prosperity.
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17-Mar-2006
TMCnet
Indian and Chinese economic relationship is set to get a leg up with the two countries closing in on signing a Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement (BIPA), which will help investments from across the border, some of which have been seen with suspicion in the recent past.
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17-Mar-2006
CBC
Farmers from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean states have expressed interest in holding some form of action similar to that at the launch of the Economic Partnership Agreement in St. Lucia last September.
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17-Mar-2006
AP
President Evo Morales vowed never to negotiate a free-trade agreement with the United States — then lunched Thursday with the US ambassador and said he wanted to meet with President George W Bush on “fair trade.’’
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17-Mar-2006
Business Times
The European Union (EU) and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) are still studying the possibility of having free trade agreements (FTAs) either on a regional basis or bilaterally with individual countries, says European Commission ambassador and head of delegation Thierry Rommel.
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17-Mar-2006
Manila Bulletin
The Philippine exploratory mission to the US on the proposed specific preferential trading for the garment sector was met with cold treatment as top level government officials, Congress representatives and its private sector still prefer a comprehensive free trade area (FTA) agreement.
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17-Mar-2006
Donga
With Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks scheduled to start in May, representatives from US industries bombarded the US government with their own wishes for a Korea-US FTA, asking the government to open the Korean service market and eliminate market regulations.
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17-Mar-2006
Delta Farm Press
Notice from USDA to countries that aren’t too well heeled but would like to try to negotiate a new free trade agreement with the United States: Don’t bother.
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17-Mar-2006
TMCnet
New Zealand has offered to sign a free trade agreement with the Philippines to boost bilateral relations, an official said yesterday.
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17-Mar-2006
The Hill
Capitol Hill is starting to feel the pangs of trade déjà vu as two pending Latin American free-trade agreements prompt Democrats to demand stronger labor standards and business lobbyists push back.
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17-Mar-2006
The Reporter
Southern African Development Community (SADC) hopes to start trade talks with China and India at the forthcoming SADC Council of Ministers Consultative Conference in Windhoek, Namibia next month.
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17-Mar-2006
Draft investment chapter of US-Thailand FTA as proposed by US
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16-Mar-2006
Granma International
The battle against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States is continuing in Ecuador.
