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EU Concludes FTA Talks with Colombia, Peru
Trade negotiations between the European Union and Colombia and Peru ended on Monday with the resolution of a handful of outstanding issues in the nearly three-year-old talks. Spain’s wish for the EU to finalise its trade agreements with Latin America during its six-month presidency of the bloc may well be coming true. Meanwhile, talks on a…
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White House 2010 Trade Agenda Pushes Exports, Enforcement
The administration of US President Barack Obama plans to put a heavy emphasis on increasing US exports this year, according to the White House’s annual trade agenda, which was released on Monday. “In 2010, American exports will be critical to the creation and support of new American jobs,” the report said, noting Obama’s recently announced goal…
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EU, Vietnam to Start Free Trade Talks
The European Union and Vietnam announced on Tuesday that they will begin negotiations toward a free trade agreement that could allow the burgeoning Asian nation easy access to the world’s biggest consumer market. The announcement came after a meeting between EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi. Vietnam, which…
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US Imposes Duties on Chinese Steel Pipes
The United States has announced new countervailing duties of between 11 and 13 percent on imports of Chinese steel pipes in the most recent episode in an ongoing trade feud between the two countries. The 24 February announcement from the US Department of Commerce came in response to a petition requesting countervailing duties filed last October…
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OECD Ag Ministers Stress Food Security, Sustainability
Agriculture ministers from the member states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) gathered in Paris late last week to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing their agriculture and food systems and to explore how to they can make those systems more sustainable. The meeting, which marked the first time in 12 years…
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Events
4 March, Geneva, Switzerland. UNEP GC/GMEF 11TH SPECIAL SESSION AND BASEL, ROTTERDAM AND STOCKHOLM CONVENTIONS EXCOPS BRIEFING. The eleventh special session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) took place in Bali, Indonesia, from 24 to 26 February 2010. The simultaneous extraordinary meetings of the conferences of…
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Resources
THE MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEM: REPORT FROM A US-AFRICA DIALOGUE ON COTTON. By IDEAS Centre Geneva, 2009. This document is the report of an international conference held on 20 July 2009 in Washington, hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and organised by IDEAS Centre. Efforts to reduce subsidies for cotton have been dubbed a…