Palestine
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20-Sep-2012 Reuters
Hamas appeals to Egypt over closure of smuggling tunnels
Egypt’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels along its border with the Gaza Strip is making shortages ever tighter. Hamas officials asked Egypt late on Monday to consider alternative trade routes, such as a free trade zone, a direct deal that could boost Hamas tax revenues and circumvent rival Fatah’s and Israel’s control of official imports to Gaza.
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19-Sep-2012 Huffington Post
The European Parliament is rewarding Israel’s human rights violations
On 18 September 2012, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) passed the Protocol on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) by a slim margin.
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24-Aug-2012 India Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI)
InCACBI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement
We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
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16-Aug-2012 Le Figaro
Israël va protester contre l’UE
Israël va protester auprès de l’Union européenne contre sa décision d’inclure la ville de Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut sur la liste des colonies juives en Cisjordanie, estimant qu’elle fait partie de son territoire souverain, a déclaré le ministre de l’Information.
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15-Aug-2012 EU Observer
Israel unhappy after EU blacklists 1980s town
The European Commission on 3 August added three postal codes to a register of over 500 codes relating to "Israeli settlements located within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967"
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2-Aug-2012 ISM
Israël et l’Autorité palestinienne signent des accords commerciaux bilatéraux
Les accords, signés mardi et destinés à réguler le commerce bilatéral et la fiscalité, ont été élaborés lors d’une série de rencontres secrètes qui ont duré plus d’un an et ont connu de nombreux hauts et bas.
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31-Jul-2012 AIC
Palestinian youth reject EU hypocrisy in upgrading relations with Israel
The Palestinian youth are tired of the EU’s hypocrisy and contemptuous policies that use aid and development programs to mask political cowardice and complicity in Israel’s crimes
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30-Jul-2012 PCHRO
EU fails to uphold international law with Israel
As organizations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), we are strongly concerned about the EU’s lack of commitment to human rights in light of what is essentially an intensification of bilateral relations with Israel.
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11-Jul-2012 Middle East Monitor
Ban on settlement goods wouldn’t break EU laws
A new report by Cambridge law professor James Crawford says that "there do not appear to be any EC laws which could be breached by a member state taking the decision to ban the import of settlement produce on public policy grounds."
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22-Jun-2012 AFP
EU bans Israeli settler products
The global campaign to boycott companies involved in Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories is spreading, according to advocates of this form of "non-violent resistance."
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14-Jun-2012 Al Jazeera
South Africa: What’s in a label?
South Africa’s recent demand that products originating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights remove the label "Made in Israel" is extremely significant - much more so than the European Union’s decision to deny these products preferential status and subject them to customs duty.
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21-May-2012
Goods from occupied lands should not be part of trade deal with Israel
In late 2010, former trade minister Peter Van Loan announced that Canada and Israel would start exploratory talks to upgrade the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Earlier this year, the Ministry of International Trade finished public consultations and is now in internal discussions to implement the upgrades.
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17-Feb-2012 Tadamon!
No Trade with Apartheid! Against the expansion of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement
Last fall, the Conservative government announced plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), a set of policies that serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism.
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17-Feb-2012 Tadamon!
Contre l’expansion de l’accord de libre-échange Canada-Israël (Hiver 2012)
L’automne dernier, le gouvernement conservateur a annoncé qu’il planifiait l’expansion de l’Accord de libre-échange Canada-Israël (ALÉCI), un ensemble de procédures qui servent à légitimer davantage l’occupation et l’apartheid israélien, et renforce la participation de certaines compagnies ainsi que du gouvernement canadien a la politique de racisme et de colonialisme prôné par Israël.
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24-Dec-2011
PA, Mercosur sign free trade agreement
The Palestinian Authority signed a free trade agreement with the Mercosur trade group Tuesday during the organizations’ presidential summit in Uruguay.
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23-Dec-2011 AP
Accord de libre échange symbolique entre les Palestiniens et quatre pays sud-américains
Le MERCOSUR, un marché commun qui lie quatre pays d’Amérique du Sud, a annoncé mardi la signature d’un accord de libre-échange avec l’Autorité palestinienne.
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21-Dec-2011 Diario Ojo Pelao
MERCOSUR firma TLC con Palestina
Los cuatro países miembros del Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur) firmaron ayer un Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con Palestina.
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20-Dec-2011 Dow Jones
Mercosur eyes protectionist steps as trade war looms
Mercosur is expected to sign a free trade agreement with Palestine on the second day of the summit following a similar deal signed with Israel in 2007.
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3-Nov-2011 TeleSurtv
Mercosur y Palestina firmarán TLC en diciembre
El Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur) y el Estado Palestino firmarán el próximo diciembre el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con el que se pretende profundizar los intercambios financieros.
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2-Oct-2011 Ria Novosti
Libre-échange UE-Palestine: feu vert du Parlement européen
Le Parlement européen a approuvé un accord de libre-échange entre l’Union européenne et l’Autorité palestinienne, a annoncé à RIA Novosti un porte-parole du Parlement.
