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8-Jul-2009
Taiwan Today
A renowned Japanese scholar urged Tokyo to enhance bilateral trading ties with Taipei through inking a free trade agreement or establishing a multilateral economic cooperation framework that includes Taiwan.
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8-Jul-2009
Xinhua
The South Korea-European Union free trade agreement is at the final stage of negotiations, Yonhap reported Wednesday.
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8-Jul-2009
Business Standard
Even the most optimistic amongst those involved in the process admit the talks to be in a deadlock that neither side has the political will to break.
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8-Jul-2009
Anarkismo.net
Analysis of the third round of egotiations of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru and Colombia).
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7-Jul-2009
Nazret.com
The Ethiopian Government is debating whether to sign the EPA with the EU, as it has concerns about the effect it will have on its fragile industries. Research shows negative implications for women, agriculture and manufacturing.
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6-Jul-2009
Politico
President Barack Obama keeps punting on the touchy issue of free trade — and it’s driving both opponents and supporters just a little bit crazy. The mixed message on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is a case in point.
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6-Jul-2009
Business Mirror
The public believes that the 600,000 hectare biodiesel deal between the Philippines and Japan is the Jpepa in action, says Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya)
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5-Jul-2009
The Namibian
The European Union has not agreed to include trade concessions made at the Swakopmund negotiations in the interim economic partnership agreement, but intends to look at the rules of origin provisions to prevent the breakup of the Southern African Customs Unions
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5-Jul-2009
VOV News
The European Union is moving ahead with negotiations on a free trade agreement with Vietnam. The process is expected to be completed by October 2010, as the pact is now an EU priority under the new Swedish presidency.
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2-Jul-2009
Border Fire
It is through trade deals such as NAFTA and initiatives like the SPP that corporations have further strengthened their power and grip over our lives.
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2-Jul-2009
Business World
The Philippine government could lose as much as P600 million annually in foregone revenues if tariffs on dairy products are removed under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA), an industry group said yesterday.
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1-Jul-2009
Straight.com
All senators but one were more concerned about investor protections for Canadian oil and mining companies, and why Canada did not get as good a deal as the US on pork and other agricultural exports, than they were with the fact that communities in the Amazon were protesting against the current and future presence of these very corporations on their ancestral lands.
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1-Jul-2009
Reuters
Gulf Arab states and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) moved toward building a trade bloc based on food and oil at a joint meeting of foreign ministers on Tuesday.
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30-Jun-2009
Upside Down World
Nation-wide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya — a defender of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA) and of Honduran workers and peasants, according to Via Campesina — be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression.
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30-Jun-2009
DN!
"I reiterate, we’re not negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union."
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30-Jun-2009
The Hindu
Pakistan and Nepal are considering a free-trade agreement, said the Pakistan Foreign Ministry on Monday.
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30-Jun-2009
EU Observer
The coup throws a curve ball at EU plans to wrap up an Association Agreement with the six-country Central American bloc this year, whose members included Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
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30-Jun-2009
Yonhap
South Korea and Japan will hold a working-level meeting this week to look into ways to resume stalled negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), Seoul’s trade ministry said Tuesday.
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30-Jun-2009
Colombia Reports
US President Barack Obama said Monday following a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, that he is confident that a free trade agreement with Colombia can ultimately be reached.
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30-Jun-2009
Clayton Utz
Some managed investment funds may not be able to seek protection under bilateral investment treaties when investing abroad, according to a recent award rendered in an investment treaty arbitration between a various Spanish investment funds and the Russian Federation (Renta 4 S.V.S.A v Russian Federation).
