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23-Aug-2006
KOA
The third round of talks over the Korea-U.S. FTA will be held in Seattle in the United States -a famous battleground of the WTO protests in 1999-from 6th to 9th September.
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23-Aug-2006
A plethora of Asian beggar-thy-neighbor agreements threatens to throttle global trade in the name of trying to save it.
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23-Aug-2006
Japan and the Philippines plan to conclude their bilateral free trade agreement in September and put it into effect by the end of 2007, it was learned Wednesday.
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23-Aug-2006
Nature abhors a vacuum, and so when regional organisations go making ostensibly grandiose claims that they will create a single currency, seek economic convergence, or establish an army, it is easy to speculate that these are not articulated outside a context.
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23-Aug-2006
UNCTAD
The growing proliferation of economic integration investment agreements (EIIAs) has led to a multilayered and multifaceted web of investment rules.
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23-Aug-2006
Papers from a Yeditepe University conference on competition policy and regional trade agreements.
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23-Aug-2006
Nippon Keidanren
A plea from the Japan Business Federation for a Japan-India FTA, outlining what the corporations would like it to provide.
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23-Aug-2006
MOFA
Snapshot of Japan’s current bilateral free trade agreement efforts, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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23-Aug-2006
Asia Pulse
Two US senators proposed a bill demanding the United States retain the existing import tariff on South Korean automobiles regardless of a future trade agreement as a way to pry open the Asian trade partner’s market.
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23-Aug-2006
KoA
The third round of talks over the Korea-U.S. FTA will be held in Seattle in the United States — a famous battleground of the WTO protests in 1999 — from 6th to 9th September.
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23-Aug-2006
Financial Times
The controversy over the impact of bilateral trade agreements on public health poses particular difficulties for the Geneva-based WHO, which is gearing up for the highly political election of a new director-general.
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23-Aug-2006
Financial Express
After a gap of almost two years, India and Nepal are all set to resume trade talks. Commerce secretaries from both the sides will meet in New Delhi on August 24 and 25 for consultations and to review bilateral trade, investment, infrastructure and transit issues.
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23-Aug-2006
IRC Americas Program
The US government’s announcement that it will review the possibility of limiting, suspending, or withdrawing trade preferences under the General System of Preferences (GSP) to three Latin American countries—Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela—is political pressure to make these nations participate in the model of regional integration proposed by the United States.
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22-Aug-2006
Le Quotidien
Le Sénégal ne voit plus, semble-t-il, le besoin de poursuivre les négociations commerciales internationales si les choses n’évoluent pas.
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22-Aug-2006
US enterprises are chafing at the bit to get into Vietnam, yet many business heads are concerned that if Congress does not establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with their former foe, then firms from other countries will have a trade advantage.
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22-Aug-2006
Business Day
The future of South African investment in mining and precious metals still hangs in the balance as Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has delayed signing laws that will protect the business interests of investors.
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22-Aug-2006
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22-Aug-2006
Nhan Dan
The agreement signed between the two governments will facilitate exchanges of information and scientists and technicians providing training to improve professional skills and the protection of intellectual property rights.
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22-Aug-2006
A group of 35 governing Uri Party lawmakers Tuesday called on US President George W Bush to include products from an inter-Korean industrial park in a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US.
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22-Aug-2006
The Asean-United States Trade Investment Framework Agreement (Tifa), which is likely to be concluded Friday, is a well-timed development given the growing trade and investment between the two, a US senior congressional aide said here Monday.