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Trade experts opt for liberal trade regime...reject EPA's and opts for GSP
27-Apr-2007    
Advocacy groups in the country have recommended to the country's negotiating team in the new trade agreement with the European Union to opt for a more liberal trade pact known as the Generalised System of Preferences plus-scheme.
Woolf lobbies Brussels on Asian liberalisation
27-Apr-2007    
Law Society president Fiona Woolf is visiting Brussels today to lobby the European Commission on the liberalisation of legal services in Asia.
EPAs Should Be Subjected to Electoral Test
27-Apr-2007    
"Here is a free trade agreement between rich and poor countries in which the former is trying to impose a reciprocal system of trade on the latter, with major consequences for poor people."
Rudd and the art of war
27-Apr-2007    
In an age when the new superpower will be China, much has been written about Kevin Rudd becoming Australia's first Sinophile prime minister.
Trade policy for five years suggested
27-Apr-2007    
Trade bodies and associations have asked the government to pursue trade policy for at least three to five years and implement it in letter and spirit.
India seeks Canada's help in early conclusion of FTA
27-Apr-2007    
India has sought Canada's help in early conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement with it and said the pact would bring a new era of economic relations between the two countries.
Unions back ALP to negotiate China FTA
27-Apr-2007    
Unions have given Labor the go ahead to negotiate a free trade deal with China after the ALP agreed to address fears about potential job losses in Australia.
Businesses in Costa Rica opine on trade agreement with European Union
27-Apr-2007     Tico Times
Costa Rican business leaders are being given a chance to opine on an association agreement between Central American and the European Union before these two regions begin negotiating the agreement in Brussels, Belgium, in June.
Union solidarity forces new look at Colombia trade deal
27-Apr-2007     People's Weekly World
Prospects for passage of Bush's free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia are dwindling in the face of pressure on Congress from U.S. and Colombian unions coupled with widespread reports of anti-labor atrocities, and new evidence of Colombian paramilitary and government collusion with the violent union repression.
Uruguay/US trade and investment talks in Washington
27-Apr-2007     MercoPress
Uruguay and United States resumed on Thursday trade and investment talks in Washington with the purpose of increasing bilateral exchanges.