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20-Jul-2006
People’s Daily
The private sector in Zimbabwe has been urged to exploit the various bilateral trade agreements that the country has signed with its trading partners.
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20-Jul-2006
Embassy
A Canadian team travels to Guatemala to try to restart stalled trade agreement while Guatemala’s foreign minister shows up in Ottawa.
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20-Jul-2006
Global Research
With the thorough integration of the Canadian and US economies through NAFTA, and a common military command and control structure, Canadian sovereignty will cease to exist by definition.
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20-Jul-2006
Bangkok Post
Thailand’s benefits from bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) may not be worth the cost, according to an academic.
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20-Jul-2006
People’s Daily
Legislators in Chile’s lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved a free trade agreement with China. The agreement, China’s first with a Latin American nation, now passes to the Senate for final ratification.
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19-Jul-2006
Arab Times
US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez met today with HH the Amir of Kuwait to discuss the Kuwaiti-American commercial dialogue and Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA).
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19-Jul-2006
Reuters
Pakistan will sign free trade agreements (FTA) with Singapore, China and Malaysia by the end of 2006, the country’s commerce minister said on Tuesday.
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19-Jul-2006
Hankyoreh
NGOs such as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief suggest a new FTA as an alternative of unfair trade situations. The new FTA is not a free trade agreement, but rather a "fair trade agreement."
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19-Jul-2006
Economic Times
The standoff between India and the Asean over the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has started rubbing over to India’s bilateral relations with individual Asean members.
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19-Jul-2006
San Francisco Chronicle
The United States is the sole remaining large WTO member that hasn’t signed a bilateral pre-admission deal with Russia.
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19-Jul-2006
Dominican Today
Dominican ambassador in Panama, Virgilio Alvarez Bonilla, affirmed that governments from both nations are making advances in the negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement, which in his esteem, will be ready to be implemented by the beginning of next year.
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19-Jul-2006
Magic City Morning Star
"It is bad enough that we are asked to support agreements that will ship more jobs overseas, that undermine our environmental standards, and that ask us to stick our head in the sand over serious human rights violations - but it is simply unacceptable to ask this Congress to support legislation that could potentially undermine the security of our nation," said US Congressman Mike Michaud.
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19-Jul-2006
Reuters
Congressional opponents of a free-trade pact with Oman raised concerns on Tuesday about provisions they said could jeopardize US port security, but other lawmakers said they were misstating the facts.
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19-Jul-2006
eKantipur
BIMSTEC, an economic bloc consisting seven South and Southeast Asian countries, is resuming trade negotiations next week in order to finalize the bloc’s free trade agreement (FTA) and propose a new date for its enforcement.
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19-Jul-2006
Iran Focus
The elements of a proposal to Iran as approved on 1 June 2006 at the meeting in Vienna of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United States and the European Union, including the commitment to achieve an EU-Iran Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement on trade and investment.
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19-Jul-2006
Jamaica Gleaner
To the incomprehension of some in Brussels, the relationship between the Caribbean and the European Commission has now reached the level of confrontation over the development orientation of economic partnership agreements (EPAs).
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18-Jul-2006
Sun2Surf
If the popular protests that have rocked the World Trade Organisation talks in past years are any indication, there will be much public anger against the free trade agreements (FTA) that are being lined up between economic giants like the US and Japan and developing countries including Malaysia.
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18-Jul-2006
CBD Biosafety Clearinghouse
Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico with respect to the documentation requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety pertaining to living modified organisms intended for direct use as food or feed or for processing (LMO/FFPs), signed in October 2004.
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18-Jul-2006
Korea Herald
A free trade agreement with the United States could have a profound impact on the regulatory environment of the Korean banking sector and reshape the industry’s landscape, a think tank said yesterday.
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18-Jul-2006
Mainichi
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, agreed Monday that Japan and India will begin work to enter negotiations to conclude a free trade agreement between them.