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2-Mar-2004
                              
                              
                              
                            
                            	Arguments against bilateral US "free trade" agreements with other countries that make it into mainstream Anglophone media tend not to come from industrialists or business people.
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                         
                            
                            
                           
                                           
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2-Mar-2004
                              Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
                              
                              
                            
                            	Can the South Asian Free Trade Agreement lead to an economic union? By all counts, and indications, such a union is still a distant dream.
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                         
                            
                            
                           
                                           
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1-Mar-2004
                              US-SACU trade talks takes on centre stage
                              
                              
                            
                            	The fourth round of negotiations between the Southern African Customs Union and the US took place this weekend in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                         
                            
                            
                           
                                           
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26-Feb-2004
                              
                              
                              
                            
                            	With everyone but Mongolia and North Korea doing it, even South Korea’s protectionists could not resist any longer. After three failed attempts, the National Assembly finally ratified the country’s first-ever free-trade agreement (FTA) last week.
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                         
                            
                            
                           
                                           
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25-Feb-2004
                              
                              
                              
                            
                            	Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has ordered the Commerce Ministry to quickly address the issue of intellectual property-right violations to facilitate the creation of the Thailand-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                
                                          
                                         
                            
                            
                           
                                           
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14-Feb-2004
                              Update of US model BIT
                              
                              
                            
                            	
                                         
                            
                            
                           
                                           
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3-Feb-2004
                              Taiwan-US TIFA expected to resumed this fall
                              
                              
                            
                            	Bilateral U.S.-Taiwan consultations under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement are expected to be resumed this year, probably in the fall, a senior U.S. trade official said yesterday.
                                
                                          
                                         
                            
                            
                           
                                           
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                              26-Sep-2003
                              Alexander’s Gas and Oil Connections
                              
                              
                            
                            	Two minority investors in India’s largest foreign investment, the ill-starred Dabhol Power Plant, have launched a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) claim against India in an effort to recoup their losses related to the plant.