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30-Mar-2010
MFAT
As signed on 29 March 2010
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30-Mar-2010
Gvt of Hong Kong
Hong Kong and New Zealand have signed a closer economic partnership agreement — Hong Kong’s first free trade pact with a foreign economy.
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30-Mar-2010
KEI
Michael Geist has leaked the lasted draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement. These are some brief comments on the new document.
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29-Mar-2010
Himalayan Times
Experts today suggested some changes in the draft of the Nepal-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). “The TIFA draft has not mentioned a word about preferential market access or reducing tariff, each of which is a key to the Nepali export sector,” they said.
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29-Mar-2010
The Age
As the assault on national sovereignty continues, the question is whether the ’’market system’’ can fill the vacuum as the power of the state withers away.
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29-Mar-2010
NZ Herald
New Zealand and Hong Kong will today sign a closer economic partnership(CEP) agreement, building on the free trade agreement with China.
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29-Mar-2010
The New Times
The Economic Partnership Agreement between the East African Community and the European Union will be signed in December this year, John Bosco Kanyangoga, Rwanda’s trade expert has said.
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29-Mar-2010
Reuters
Taiwan has leveraged its goal of a landmark trade deal with China to open talks with Japan, the United States and other powers on free trade deals expected to boost the long-isolated island economy, officials said on Friday.
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29-Mar-2010
NZCTU
In an historic move, peak bodies of Trans Pacific trade unions have called for a new and fairer framework for trade and investment agreements.
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29-Mar-2010
AFP
Malaysia and India are on target to sign a free-trade agreement by year-end as the two countries readied for a third round of talks.
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29-Mar-2010
CNA
The debate on whether Taiwan should sign an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China continues to rage in local society, as the government has stepped up its efforts to gain public support for the pact and the opposition is pushing for a referendum on the proposed deal.
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26-Mar-2010
New Era
So impressed by Namibia are non-government organisations that they suggest mounting mass demonstrations in southern Africa and Brussels, the seat of the European Union Commission.
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26-Mar-2010
Andina
Peru will sign the final text of its free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association, consisting of Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, in June.
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26-Mar-2010
NTA
The US National Textile Association is worried that the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement could undermine the basis for textile rules of origin in US FTAs and that if more APEC members join the US will be outvoted.
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25-Mar-2010
MercoPress
The free trade agreement between Mercosur and Israel, the first out of the region for the South American block, became effective this week for Paraguay. For the rest of Mercosur full members, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay the official date is April first.
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25-Mar-2010
CBC
The federal government has agreed to add a new element to Canada’s proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia. "It will be the first FTA in the world to require an annual human-rights assessment to be tabled in both countries’ parliaments," the amendment’s author says.
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25-Mar-2010
Andina
The negotiations for Peru to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, known as P4, could take at least two years because of different interests among the eight countries who participate in the negotiations.
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25-Mar-2010
Taipei Times
Many WTO members have expressed support for a China-Taiwan Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement and would be happy to see it happen, says Taiwan’s permanent representative to WTO.
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25-Mar-2010
IPS
Peru is enthusiastically espousing free trade, and has signed six tariff-lowering agreements in the space of a year. But it has not matched them with the internal policies needed to reduce their impact on labour rights, the environment, and sensitive areas like agriculture, social organisations and experts say.
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24-Mar-2010
Bloomberg
The deal shows “the gate on the New Zealand-China free trade agreement swings both ways,” a Federated Farmers official said. Natural Dairy, formerly China Jin Hui Mining Corporation, agreed to buy four farms in New Zealand and is in talks for 24 more as part of a NZ$1.5bn (US$1.1bn) expansion in the world’s biggest dairy exporter.
