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5-Jun-2011
The embarrassing translation errors in Korea’s free trade agreements have revealed the government’s weakness in translation skills and a startling overconfidence in its civil servants’ foreign language abilities.
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5-Jun-2011
The South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) has so far been long on promises but short on actions. It was envisaged to raise inter-regional trade in South Asia - which is one of the world’s least economically integrated regions - to $40 billion by 2015 from $11bn in 2007, shortly after it was agreed. But that now clearly remains a very tall promise.
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5-Jun-2011
Representatives of the governments of Mexico and the Central American countries wrapped up a fifth round of talks on a regional free trade agreement last week. The negotiations took place in Mexico City, with the next round of talks to be held in August in El Salvador.
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5-Jun-2011
Given the strong economic, political and cultural ties shared by the two countries an FTA to further bolster bilateral trade had been a topic during a meeting between Japanese Ambassador Kunio Takahashi and Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen.
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5-Jun-2011
HimVani
Himachal Pradesh Apple Growers Association has decided to hold massive protest demonstrations throughout the state on 6th June 2011 against the government’s free trade agreements which allow foreign apples to come in at increasingly reduced rates.
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5-Jun-2011
AFP
Governor General David Johnston said Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper would work with Washington to create a continental security perimeter around Canada and the United States "ensuring that people and goods can flow freely and safely between our two countries."
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4-Jun-2011
Success of the grandiose Tripartite Free Trade Area will largely depend on how geared members of COMESA, EAC and SADC are to swiftly implementing agreements and trade protocols.
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4-Jun-2011
Major trade organizations of South Korea, China and Japan urged their governments Friday to quickly sign a three-way free trade agreement (FTA) to strengthen their economic cooperation.
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4-Jun-2011
India is hopeful of signing the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union this year and negotiations are at an ‘advanced stage’, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said today.
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2-Jun-2011
Canadians spend a lot of money (public and private) on health care and much of that is spent on drugs — some $23.4 billion in 2008. Provincial insurance plans are desperately trying to cope, looking to initiatives like the recently passed Ontario law that caps prices of generic drugs at 25 per cent of the brand name equivalent.
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2-Jun-2011
The Society of American Florists, the umbrella organisation for the flower industry in the US, has supported the announcement that the US and Colombia have reached an agreement to help clear a path toward final Congressional approval of the US/Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
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2-Jun-2011
Cho Seong Dae, chief researcher at the FTA & Industry Research Office Institute for International Trade, part of the Korea International Trade Association, comments on the impact of a free-trade agreement with the European Union on South Korean petrochemical companies.
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2-Jun-2011
CNA
Germany supports a speedy conclusion of the proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and ASEAN. This was in view of the non-conclusion of the Doha round of talks, says German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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2-Jun-2011
El Watan
L’Algérie a obtenu un accord de principe pour que la zone de libre-échange avec l’Union européenne entre en vigueur en 2020 au lieu de 2017 comme prévu initialement
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31-May-2011
Emphasizing the importance of trade to the nation’s economy and the need to prevent the loss of existing export markets, agricultural leaders converged on Capitol Hill to urge for immediate passage of three outstanding trade agreements.
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31-May-2011
The Southern Africa Development Community and the Common Market for East and Southern Africa are currently in the process of liberalizing trade in services.
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31-May-2011
The agreement on the establishment of a free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union is almost ready, although there are three unresolved issues remaining, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
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31-May-2011
Leaders of Korea’s main opposition party Tuesday urged the government to renegotiate the free trade agreement with the United States before seeking parliamentary approval.
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31-May-2011
India may agree in the WTO negotiations to cut tariff in specific sectors in which the country is, any way, slashing duties under Free Trade Agreements with different countries and blocs, a Commerce Ministry official said today.
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31-May-2011
Peru and Japan will increase trade flow in 30 percent thanks to the signing of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by both countries which will come into effect in a short term, reported Tuesday Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Eduardo Ferreyros.
