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27-Mar-2009
Anarkismo.net
We can and must focus on the trading privileges from which Israel benefits within the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement, and point out again and again that Israel violates the human rights clause of that Agreement. If nothing else, this clarifies that EU support for Israel violates its own regulations.
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27-Mar-2009
European Parliament
Disappointed with the slow pace of negotiations, MEPs would like to see a Free Trade Agreement signed with India by the end of 2010, in a report adopted in Strasbourg by the European Parliament.
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26-Mar-2009
CCIC
While trade can support development and the realization of human rights, the authors find that neither the political conditions in Colombia, nor the terms of this FTA meet the criteria that would allow that to happen.
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25-Mar-2009
JIS
Jamaica’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has expressed concerns about the upcoming free trade agreement to be signed between Canada and CARICOM.
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25-Mar-2009
Press Association
Millions of people in developing countries will lose their jobs under free trade plans which will be promoted by the Gordon Brown at next week’s G20 summit, a leading charity has warned.
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25-Mar-2009
Business Mirror
THE European Commission is urging the Philippine private sector to persuade the government to pursue a bilateral economic cooperation deal with the European Union now that the negotiation for a region-to-region free-trade agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and EU has reached an impasse.
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24-Mar-2009
NY Times
South Korea and the European Union on Tuesday reached a tentative agreement to scrap tariffs on goods traded between them, a deal that, if ratified, would send a strong signal on free trade at a time of rising protectionist tendencies.
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24-Mar-2009
BERNAMA
Negotiators of South Korea and the European Union (EU) reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday over their free trade agreement (FTA), South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
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23-Mar-2009
Caricom negotiations with Canada on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) have been proceeding since 2007. At their summit in Belize on March 12-13, Caricom Heads approved a ‘Negotiating Brief’ with the proviso that it may need to be re-examined in the context of the global economic situation. It sounds like they wish to keep their options open.
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23-Mar-2009
India and Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) will have to reschedule the June 1 deadline for eliminating duties on more than 4,000 products traded between the two sides, a government official said.
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23-Mar-2009
CEO
Internal email communication by DG Trade obtained by
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) unveils how the EU Commission has actively
orchestrated African business support for its Economic Partnership Agreements
(EPAs) with the countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. MEPs will vote
on the EPA negotiations at their sitting in Strasbourg today and tomorrow.
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22-Mar-2009
JapanFocus
This article outlines recent developments in Indonesia’s LNG export relationship with both Japan and China. It assess what is driving Indonesian policy in the areas of energy and investment, with particular reference to China.
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21-Mar-2009
Eyes on trade
Under the Panama FTA, AIG-Panama would be able to sue the US taxpayer for cash damages by claiming common regulatory actions were "tantamount" to an ("indirect") "expropriation."
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21-Mar-2009
he United States will not retreat from the global marketplace but must address the concerns of American workers who believe that trade hurts them, President Barack Obama’s chief trade negotiator said at his swearing in ceremony on Friday.
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21-Mar-2009
WSJ
After years of watching the anti-free trade groups put together remarkably broad coalitions, the pro-free trade side in the US is striking back.
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21-Mar-2009
Xinhua
Peruvian, Colombian and Ecuadorian officials will hold meetings with the European Union next week for a Free Trade Agreement. The discussion on intellectual property is seen as one of the most sensitive in the negotiations, because the Europeans have demanded an extension of the terms for the copyrights and data protection.
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21-Mar-2009
Trend News
Chile and Turkey finished the last round of negotiations on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA), announced Friday the Chilean Foreign Ministry.
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21-Mar-2009
As the 6th round of negotiations related to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement got underway In Delhi today, the police detained several representatives of public interest groups during a peaceful protest in front of the office of the European Commission. Trade bureaucrats from the EC and Indian Commerce Ministry will deliberate on issues ranging from services, manufacturing, trade facilitation and government procurement till 19 March.
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19-Mar-2009
Pakistan inked the first ever bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with the government of West Germany 50 years ago, before going on to accumulate one of the largest portfolios of BITs held by a developing country: some 47 in total, 35 of which were signed in a flurry of activity between 1988 and 1999.
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19-Mar-2009
Japanese demand for Australian commodities may be waning, but the Rudd Government insists there is still the political will for Tokyo and Canberra to find common ground on free trade.
