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12-Mar-2008
The WTO cell of TDAP has been given a task to work with the stationery industry and develop a proposal for the Ministry of Commerce to include stationery items in the free trade agreement (FTA).
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12-Mar-2008
Singapore has completed a free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a senior official said Tuesday.
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11-Mar-2008
Brownsville Herald
Mexico and the US Department of Agriculture are negotiating a trade agreement that would presumably pave the way for the export of US breeding stock. The announcement comes on the heels of a trade agreement last week that includes breeding stock between Mexico and Canada.
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11-Mar-2008
Scoop
NZ Trade Minister Goff outlines New Zealand’s FTA roadmap for the meat & wool industry in key markets.
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11-Mar-2008
Business Standard
After political opposition to bilateral trade agreements, it is now the Reserve Bank of India that is raising the red flag on treaties signed by India.
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10-Mar-2008
Financial Express
Interview with the UN Conference on Trade & Development’s secretary-general, and former WTO chief, Supachai Panitchpakdi.
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9-Mar-2008
NGO urges junking of RP-China agreement on use of idle RP lands
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and Fair Trade Alliance are pushing for the permanent suspension of an agreement which allows China to utilize 1.2 million hectares of idle and under-utilized land in the Philippines.
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9-Mar-2008
TUCP wants Senate to ratify JPEPA
The Senate has been asked to ratify "as soon as possible" the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) "in order not to keep the labor sector waiting longer for the opening up of a new market for Filipino workers," the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) yesterday said.
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8-Mar-2008
AllAfrica.com
Association des Producteurs de Bananes du Cameroun (ASSOBACAM), sources reveal, pushed the Cameroonian government to jump into a bilateral agreement with the EU Commission. Many observers interpret the move to mean that government sacrificed the young industrial sector of the country to protect the interest of banana producers, most of which are owned by Western countries.
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8-Mar-2008
Bahama Journal
"We feel that the EPA only asks that we re-colonize the Bahamas," said Fayne Thompson of Bahamians Agitating for a Referendum on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (BARF).
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8-Mar-2008
Trinidad & Tobago Express
Caribbean Community (Caricom) Governments and the European Union will not be signing the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in April, as scheduled. They will instead sign the EPA two months later.
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8-Mar-2008
Following a conference held on March 5th at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which took a critical look at how NAFTA has impacted the North American region, legislators from Canada, the US and Mexico agreed today to launch a Task Force to push for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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8-Mar-2008
President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Ijaz Abbasi on Friday stressed the need for Free Trade Agreement or Preferential Trade Agreement (FTA/PTA) between Pakistan and Canada for increasing bilateral trade as at present Pakistani exports to Canada are very low.
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8-Mar-2008
The Nation
"People today have fewer and fewer choices to eat garlic grown in Thailand, and this significantly affects food’s taste. One third of all garlic available here is no longer grown in Thailand but imported - a lot of it from China," a study on the impact of the Thailand-China FTA said.
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7-Mar-2008
Corporate Europe Observatory
Running their business via a letterbox company in the Netherlands, transnational corporations profit from the corporate-friendly Dutch tax regime and bilateral investment treaties the Netherlands has with third countries. Euro Telecom Italia (ETI), a subsidiary of Italian telecoms giant ENTEL, is one such letterbox company. ETI recently lodged a complaint with the World Bank tribunal ICSID against Bolivia for compensation, after the Bolivian government had launched a review the company’s much-criticised performance and attempted to negotiate a buy back of what used to be a public telecommunications company.
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6-Mar-2008
The dangers and disadvantages of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) promoted by the United States in Latin America were analyzed on Wednesday during the third day of the 10th International Encounter of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems that is underway at Havana’s Convention Center.
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6-Mar-2008
South Africa will continue engaging with the European Union to ensure new trade agreements with African countries do not harm regional integration, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.
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6-Mar-2008
EU trade chief Peter Mandelson dangled a carrot in front of SA’s negotiators at the weekend, hinting at greater access to European markets in exchange for SA returning to the negotiating table to resolve a standoff over a stalled regional trade deal with the EU.
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6-Mar-2008
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab told Congress on Thursday "the time is now" to approve a free trade agreement with Colombia, signaling a fight with lawmakers seeking stronger rights for workers.
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6-Mar-2008
The Government has pledged that its free-trade deal with China will not threaten the wages and conditions of New Zealand workers.
