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13-Aug-2009
Feedstuffs
The US Government Accountability Office says bilateral free trade agreements signed by the United States work: they deliver new market opportunities for America’s agriculture sector.
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13-Aug-2009
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President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner qualified agreements signed with Hugo Chavez for “key sectors” such as foodstuffs, energy and technology as “absolutely necessary” and “transcendental for the 21 Century”.
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12-Aug-2009
Trinidad & Tobago Express
Despite the controversies associated with the negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), permanent secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Carl Francis, says Trinidad and Tobago will be better off in the area of trade once it joins forces with Canada.
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12-Aug-2009
Japan Times
The media have lashed out at the Democratic Party of Japan over its apparent backpedaling on wanting a free-trade agreement between Japan and the United States.
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12-Aug-2009
Xinhua
Panama and Canada on Tuesday signed a free trade agreement (FTA) after the conclusion of bilateral trade talks.
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11-Aug-2009
The Swapo Party Youth League has come all out in support of Government’s refusal to sign the EPAs, claiming current negotiations with the European Union (EU) on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) are not beneficial to the country.
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11-Aug-2009
The Gazette, Montreal
Canada signs free-trade agreement with Panama By Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News Service
11 August 2009 PANAMA CITY — Prime Minister Stephen Harper will sign a free-trade agreement with Panama on Tuesday morning, giving Canadian business greater access to the small but fast-growing Central American economy.
Once the deal is ratified, Panama will immediately eliminate tariffs on more than 90 per cent of its current imports from Canada. The remaining tariffs (...)
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11-Aug-2009
Taipei Times
US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is urging US Trade Representative Ron Kirk to promptly resume negotiations with Taiwan for a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) and for a US-Taiwan bilateral investment agreement. The negotiations were broken off last year by the US in retaliation for Taiwan’s restrictions on the import of US beef.
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11-Aug-2009
CGGL
The prominent Lebanese human rights lawyer Dr. Muhamad Mugraby has instituted legal proceedings against the EU at the European Court of Justice invoking its obligations under Article 2 of the Association Agreement with Lebanon, commonly known as the “human rights clause”, in order to improve the human rights situation in Lebanon.
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11-Aug-2009
PDI
Importers and brokers have resorted to using a controversial trade agreement between the Philippines and Japan to avoid paying the correct amount of taxes to the government, a ranking customs official said Monday.
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11-Aug-2009
SmartBrief
The EU is expected to drop "noneconomic demands" to which the Gulf states object, according to a report from the Emirates Industrial Bank.
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11-Aug-2009
MCOT News
Economic ministers from the 10 Southeast Asian countries will sign the Asean-China Investment Agreement during the 41st Asean Economic Ministers this week, but the long-delayed free trade pact with India is likely to be postponed again.
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11-Aug-2009
Asia Times
"If this FTA goes through, pepper may cease to be produced in Kerala, the land where it originated," says Thomas Verghese, a distinguished agricultural scientist and chairman of the Kerala State Prices Board
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10-Aug-2009
Xinhua
At least 300 people on Sunday demonstrated against the Fifth North American Leaders’ Summit, being held in Guadalajara, capital of western Mexico state Jalisco.
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10-Aug-2009
DNAIndia
Leaders from Kerala have vociferously opposed the Asean free trade agreement that could impact its farmers in future. The same cannot be said about many coffee growers who have little political muscle. Karnataka produces 70% of coffee in India.
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10-Aug-2009
Taipei Times
Taiwan’s former vice president said that the KMT and CCP are plotting a “3-3-3” scheme that includes an ECFA, confidence-building and a peace treaty by 2011
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10-Aug-2009
Korea Times
India should be used as a beachhead for Korea in an effort to provide a deeper penetration for its goods going into Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the Samsung Economic Research Institute argues.
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8-Aug-2009
CCIC
Canadian Council for International Cooperation | June 2009
KEY BENCHMARKS FOR A HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR THE CANADA-COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (CCFTA)
“An independent, impartial, and comprehensive human rights impact assessment should be carried out by a competent body, which is subject to levels of independent scrutiny and validation; the recommendations of this assessment should be addressed before Canada considers signing, ratifying and implementing an agreement with (...)
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7-Aug-2009
Straight.com
Common Frontiers, a network of church, labour, environmental, and civil society groups, and the Réseau québcois sur l’Intégration continentale have sent the following open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper ahead of his summit next week with U.S president Barack Obama and Mexican president Felipe Calderón in Guadalajara, Mexico:
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7-Aug-2009
PTI News
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the US and Mauritius will begin negotiations for a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) to strengthen investor protections and encourage the continuation of market-oriented economic reforms in the African nation.
