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12-Apr-2010
Daily Dispatch
President Jacob Zuma and the Republic of Congo’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso signed a bilateral trade agreement in Pretoria on Thursday. In a statement released after their meeting, Zuma welcomed the long-term land lease agreement of over 200000 hectares of idle farmland to a consortium of South African farmers.
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12-Apr-2010
Mail and Guardian
When asked in 2006 to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations that only recently got under way in Australia, the Harper government refused, largely to protect the Quebec and Ontario dairy industry from foreign competition.
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12-Apr-2010
Gulf Times
Talks of signing of FTA between Pakistan and GCC have been making the rounds for several years but both sides have only now reached at some concrete work to move ahead.
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12-Apr-2010
Nation
The Thai government is accelerating the process of establishing preliminary guidelines and conducting public hearings in order to launch free-trade agreement (FTA) talks with the European Union by June, a move seen as necessary to ensure the Kingdom remains competitive with potential rivals who are also looking to ink a pact with the bloc.
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12-Apr-2010
Andina
"Japan insists on having more Peruvian fishing and agricultural products excluded from the agreement, but we insist on having less items out of the agreement," said Peru’s minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Martín Pérez.
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12-Apr-2010
AFP
China said on Thursday it had signed a free trade agreement with Costa Rica, paving the way to lift almost all tariffs on Chinese textiles, chemicals and machinery to the Central American nation.
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9-Apr-2010
IPS
When Caribbean leaders sit across the table from their European counterparts at a May summit in Spain, high on their agenda will be the problems experienced by banana and sugar producers in gaining meaningful access to the European market.
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9-Apr-2010
Xinhua
Colombia and Mexico agreed on Thursday to move ahead on the consolidation of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) project to boost trade between the two countries.
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8-Apr-2010
Bloomberg
“For us, food safety based on Japan’s scientific standards is the priority,” Akamatsu said today. “The OIE standards are different from the Japanese scientific ones.”
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8-Apr-2010
CAW
Canadian Auto Workers is calling for an immediate halt to any federal government plans to finalize a Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement without the guarantee of an independent human rights impact assessment in Colombia.
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8-Apr-2010
Colombia Reports
Canadian Auto Workers, the country’s largest union, last week issued a press release calling on the government to halt trade negotiations with Colombia, calling the deal "a shocking betrayal of Canadians’ expectation that we don’t negotiate with human rights abusers."
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7-Apr-2010
RTT News
India and Japan resumed dialogues Wednesday in New Delhi on a free trade agreement, or FTA.
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7-Apr-2010
Feedstuffs.com
US corn exports to Peru in PTPA’s first year increased 167% in quantity and more than 100% in value, and the US market share of the Peruvian corn market jumped from 15% to 38%
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7-Apr-2010
IP Watch
A new accord designed to bolster political and economic ties between the European Union and Central America could result in greater seizures of medicines whenever pharmaceutical companies allege that their patents have been infringed, public health advocates have warned.
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6-Apr-2010
The Citizen
Former President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania has recently warned East African states to be wary of EPA as it was another Europe form of colonising the continent.
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6-Apr-2010
The Post
“EPAs are a divide-and-rule tactic being advanced by Europe for selfish interests and Malawi will not sign until all concerns are addressed and I know all these manoeuvres since I was among the pioneers of regional integration,” says President Wa Mutharika.
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6-Apr-2010
Bernama
Singapore and Costa Rica signed the Singapore-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement on Tuesday.
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5-Apr-2010
DPA
The surge in Thai exports to China is attributed to China’s strong economic growth and the implementation of the China-ASEAN free trade agreement on January 1
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5-Apr-2010
East African
Reports that the East African Community is close to signing an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union may be a mirage.
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5-Apr-2010
Economic Times
The proposed free trade agreement between India and Australia has hit rough waters with the latter insisting that issues including environment, labour, intellectual property, government procurement and competition policy be part of the negotiations.
