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Turkey offers FTA with India
19-Mar-2008    
Turkey has offered to have a free trade agreement (FTA) with India and wants to boost its exports of food products, textiles, plastics, chemicals, machinery and construction materials.
Peters wary of freer trade
19-Mar-2008    
Winston Peters wants some assurances on how a free trade agreement with China will benefit this country before he is prepared to support the deal to be signed next month by Prime Minister Helen Clark.
Trade clause a coup for NZ
19-Mar-2008    
New Zealand has succeeded in gaining "most favoured nation" status from China in the negotiations for the upcoming bilateral free trade deal.
National MP to join Clark at Beijing free trade signing
19-Mar-2008    
The National Party is taking a bi-partisan approach to the Free Trade Agreement with China which will be signed next month, and in return it is going to get a piece of the action in Beijing.
EU warns Sri Lanka trade depends on rights record
19-Mar-2008    
The European Union has told Sri Lanka it has "very serious concerns" about civil war human rights abuses and that lucrative trade concessions could be at risk if they continue.
Michel on EPAs: 'I do not accept these excuses'
19-Mar-2008     EUX.TV
Continued opposition to new economic partnership agreements for Europe's former colonies is too often based on "simplistic" arguments that are not acceptable, according to the European Commission. "I do not accept these excuses," says European Development Commissioner Louis Michel in an interview with EUX.TV. "If they really want to profit from globalization, they have no choice."
US-Rwanda BIT (2008)
19-Mar-2008     USTR
Venezuela: Gov't celebrates British ruling against Exxon
19-Mar-2008     IPS
Venezuela celebrated, as a triumph for countries of the developing South, Tuesday's ruling in its favour by a British court in a legal dispute with US oil giant Exxon Mobil, which overturned an earlier court order to freeze around 12 billion dollars in Venezuelan assets.
Locke calls for stronger support for Tibetans
19-Mar-2008     Scoop
We can't separate the oppression of the Tibetan people from the preferential trade agreement New Zealand is about to sign with China.
Costa Rica negotiates Free Trade Agreement with EU
19-Mar-2008     Costa Rica Pages
Representatives from Central America and the European Union met yesterday, March 17th, to negotiate new trade policy. One of the key elements being proposed by the Central American committee is the lowering of tariffs imposed on certain agricultural products to allow for more competitive trade.