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24-Apr-2009
Hankyoreh
As negotiations for the South Korea-European Union free trade agreement (Korea-EU FTA) race into their final stages, the inner workings are starting to come to light.
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23-Apr-2009
WSJ
A Democratic senator from Ohio is moving to further tie up pending US free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea, setting up a potential clash between President Barack Obama and some members of his party.
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23-Apr-2009
Haaretz
Global pharmaceuticals companies, which often argue that Israel should pass stricter legislation to protect intellectual property, have received support from an unexpected corner recently: the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) has filed an urgent petition to the United States Trade Representative demanding the immediate suspension of preferential Israeli access to the US market under the Free Trade Area agreement.
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23-Apr-2009
AFP
US and Peruvian officials met recently to see how the environmental clauses of the free trade agreement signed between Lima and Washington were being implemented, the office of the US Trade Representative said Wednesday.
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23-Apr-2009
Colombia Reports
US President Barack Obama will face opposition from his democratic colleagues if he asks Congress to approve a free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia.
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23-Apr-2009
SL Farmonline
The Australian dairy industry has backed the stance by Trade Minister Simon Crean in refusing to accept China’s exclusion of agricultural products from a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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23-Apr-2009
Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuela and the countries of the Bolivarian Alternative to the Americas (ALBA) decided not to sign the final document of the Summit of the Americas held on April 17-19 in Trinidad and Tobago, saying it excluded Cuba and offered no viable solution to the current economic crisis.
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22-Apr-2009
Fibre to Fashion
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified a comprehensive free-trade agreement with Japan. It will take effect in July this year.
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22-Apr-2009
IP Watch
Bilateral free trade agreements can have a profound effect on national intellectual property legislation. A recent panel offered countries a deeper understanding of the stronger enforcement provisions typically found in such agreements.
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22-Apr-2009
Colombia Reports
Close to one hundred activists gathered outside the White House Monday, asking President Obama to make a radical change to the US’s political relationship with Colombia.
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22-Apr-2009
Taiwan News
A South Korean lawmaker says a parliamentary committee has approved a free trade agreement with the United States, paving the way for the deal to be voted on by the entire legislature.
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22-Apr-2009
Dominion
Since the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement was tabled on March 26th, people across Canada have been getting the word out and showing their opposition to the deal.
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21-Apr-2009
Tico Times
During the second round of free trade negotiations last week, China’s negotiating team discussed allowing 94 percent of Costa Rican goods to access the Chinese market, but left out key products such as coffee, sugar, beef, pork and chicken.
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21-Apr-2009
San Antonio Business Journal
The coalition is being formed to address the US Department of Transportation’s recent cancellation of its Cross Border Trucking Demonstration Project and will be comprised of companies, industry organizations, trade associations and business chambers that support the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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21-Apr-2009
PR Newswire
A major legal filing urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to suspend preferential Israeli access to the US market.
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21-Apr-2009
Country Guide
Talks that may lead to free trade negotiations between Canada and Morocco may help protect a major export market for Canadian durum and pulse crop exports, ag groups said this week.
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21-Apr-2009
PTI
"Concerned" over "child and bonded labour" in India, the European Parliament has strongly pressed the European Union to include the issues in the Free Trade Agreement talks with New Delhi, which is stoutly against inclusion of social issues in commercial deals.
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21-Apr-2009
Korea Times
The Korean National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee will vote on a motion to forward a free trade pact signed with the US government to the full Assembly for ratification.
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21-Apr-2009
Chosun Ilbo
"Inside US Trade", an American magazine, last Saturday quoted sources as saying NSC officials believe that the passage of the FTA bill will cement the Korea-U.S. alliance at a time when tension is mounting on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket.
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20-Apr-2009
Modern Ghana
With cross-border price-undercutting, mounting debt and a lack of buyers, many tomato farmers in Ghana’s Upper East Region are turning to suicide. Yet with European Union Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated, West African markets are about to be flooded with heavily subsidised EU products
