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EU antidumping measures also had been down in recent years, as the bloc moved to encourage free trade.

The agreement with Columbia is the first of three free trade agreements the White House wants to see clear Congress this year.

It was, as the authors explain, a "mercantilist world where unilateral free trade and a pacific stance were not viable options" .

Should Barack Obama win, he is expected to call for a review of the North American Free Trade Agreement, on which Canada depends.

The index ranks the policies of each country according to how much they encourage free trade, both internally and with other territories.

To the objection that such a policy would be protectionist, a violation of the principles of free trade, one reply is, So?

It assumes the existence of a universal union and a state of perpetual peace, and deduces therefrom the great benefits of free trade.

``Free trade is always being attacked, '' Irwin said. ``The question is, how high is the threat level? ''

It had been planned that a free-trade agreement would cap a year of warming relations with South Korea.

The changing era requires the United States to be more insistent upon the need for free trade and an end to protectionism, he said.

Most of those who reclaimed Republican seats campaigned against free trade, globalisation and any sort of moderate immigration policy.

I think they were gearing up for the election, and appeasing the unions to elect Gore was more important than standing for free trade.

However, the area has never been determined by ASEAN as a free trade area yet. There is no blue print dealing with the area.

The economy continued to be mired in a long recession that many blamed on the free-trade agreement.

Are the U. S. government and business community right to be worried about threats to free trade and intellectual property rights?

And Panama, with which Costa Rica is wrapping up free-trade negotiations, has itself concluded a similar deal with the United States.

It seems to have concluded that the best response to high food prices is to move closer to agricultural autarky than to free trade.

Free trade may not always be good for all participants, and in the long run trade with China may hold perils for the United States.

With that settled, there was a fresh desire to make progress towards a genuinely open free-trade block.

If he wants my vote he'll have to take a stand on the question of free trade.

Mr. Obama said he would continue negotiations on a Korea-U. S. free trade agreement, which deadlocked Thursday.

Again, the anti-free-trade rhetoric doesn't seem to be enough to helpStrickland this election year.

These dangers to free trade do not add up to a repeat of the 1930s, but they all need watching.

Except in the sense that it is for free trade everywhere it is not specifically trying to spread the American way of life.

Mexicans hoped that NAFTA, the North American Free-Trade Agreement that came into force a decade and a half ago, would make them rich.

Nested on-line transactions for the company to meet financial requirements to open free trade customers.

The implication was that free trade with Mexico would cause significant job losses in the United States.

Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath said New Delhi also hopes to work out the details of a free trade accord by the end of the year.

On the last day, there was a protest march against war in Iraq and against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.

His instinct for rational economics has turned him from a protectionist into a champion of free trade.

We don't say it all that often, but President Bush is right: Congress should pass the Colombian free-trade agreement now.

He brings with him plans for a free trade deal between the nations, planned to come into force by 2010.

Mr Turner seems to feel that the problem is free trade, an idea it is not clear he understands.

The proposal to turn Apec into a free trade area runs into insuperable political and technical difficulties.

The truth of the matter is that free trade is alive and well among economists.

This sort of double speak demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of free trade, economics and world history.

You might conclude from all this that free trade has little to offer the world's poor, especially in Africa. That would be wrong.

President Bush is pushing a free-trade agreement with Colombia and he is trying to force Congress to back it.

Seizing the moment, George Bush decided to send the Colombian free-trade pact to Congress for approval.

The Time is Now does not support a global free trade deal along current lines, as it would not help poor people.

He says he thought ratifying the free trade deal was a "shortcut" to trigger the economic growth South Korea urgently needs.

He says the business community - one of the greatest proponents of free trade - has an obligation to educate the public.

We preach free trade to the poor while shutting their own goods out of our markets, or slapping prohibitive tariffs on them.

Besides, an exchange of journalists to cover Free Trade Area policies, or any other mode for the purpose, would also be desirable. 3.

To make that happen, Japan needs to do more to open up to foreign competition by forging free-trade agreements (FTAs).

During the primaries he threatened to pull out of the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) unless it was renegotiated.

Countries did not become advocates for free trade until their firms were secure in global technological leadership.

Has the U. S. forever given up on the dream of a rules-based monetary order for a global economy dedicated to free trade?

But even for those who still identify themselves as supporters of free trade, Buy American is a difficult issue on which to take a stand.

Mr Wen said he was a "staunch supporter of free trade" and deniedChina's currency, the yuan, was undervalued.

The most prominent recent flare-up in this debate is over the North American Free Trade Agreement.

He would like a loose free-trade zone instead of what he sees as a nascent superstate .

Yet, whenever the economy goes through a difficult time, as it has in recent years, free trade comes under fire.

The only option for Mr Gaidar and his team was to abolish price regulation and allow free trade.

China's trying to rebrand itself as a champion of free trade.

As a consequence, they cannot be used to determine whether bilateralism could lead to agricultural global free trade.

Since 1992, it's been a free-trade area stretching from the banks of the Irrawaddy to the forests of New Guinea.

He also said his country would push for a free trade deal with China to be in place by the second half of next year.

The debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement was conducted almost entirely in terms of supposed job creation or destruction.

Related to Rules of Origin as the key to the success of a free trade agreement, its study is of great practical significance.

That might be the cornerstone for an even bigger free-trade area eventually including China, the world's second-biggest economy.

Its free-trade zone, handling $19 billion of goods a year, presents plenty of laundering opportunities.

Later, as the United States trade representative for President George W. Bush, he was a vocal advocate of free trade.

Despite lapses into protectionism, the U. S. has generally been both a promoter and a beneficiary of free trade.

Free trade with all and entangling alliances with none has always been the best policy in dealing with other countries on the world stage.

A free trade agreement with South Korea came into effect this year and New Delhi is working on a similar agreement with Japan.

The delegates did not complete the details of the South Asia Free Trade Agreement.

Barack Obama recently signed a ground-breaking free-trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, after years of Washington foot-dragging.

IMPROVING relations between China and Taiwan will get another boost with the signing of a groundbreaking free-trade pact by the end of June.

This decision is not just a test of President Barack Obama's support for free trade.

Human resources development and cooperation is one of the important contents of constructing China-ASEAN Free Trade Area.

The footwear dispute has come to be seen as a litmus test for Europe's commitment to free trade in the midst of an economic crisis.

From the free-trade zone set up in 2003 since the volume of bilateral trade has developed rapidly.

Ever since the Brazilians have tended to view free trade with suspicion, despite their country's recent success as an exporter.

It also said the move would flout European human rights legislation and free trade rules.

The United States and South Korea have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to alter their stalled free trade agreement.

A free-trade zone near the border with the Dominican Republic has attracted American apparel companies, creating thousands of jobs.

Indeed, fewer and fewer Republicans are letting their supposed belief in free trade interfere with an easy shot at the president.

I believe that free trade will give a strong impetus to the effort to counter the financial crisis and promote global economic recovery.

They are trying to establish a free trade agreement between their countries.

He said Congress could also advance free trade pacts with South Korea, Panama and Colombia.

When in Tokyo we reached a understanding for a feasibility study into the possibility of a Free Trade Agreement between Austrilia and Japan.

With protectionist policies gaining dangerous traction everywhere, the global economy needs a strong champion of free trade.

The WTO says a free-trade agreement is possible by the end of next year.

In all six countries surveyed respondents preferred free trade to protectionism as a means of beating the recession.

Globalization is coupled with an ideology of free markets and free trade and a decline in state intervention.

He was inspiring as well as courageous, and his passion for free trade was allied to his passion for democracy.

Korean troops for Iraq, and a free-trade accord with the United States in 2007, did little to soothe suspicions that he was anti-American.

Regulations banning the export of traditional products do not belong in a union founded on free trade.

A free-trade deal with the United States, expected to be approved soon by America's Congress, will make procurement more transparent.

All this will pave the way for the ultimate formulation of an East Asian Free Trade Area.

Free trade still benefits the world as a whole, even if not all of it all of the time.

The creation of a free trade area between the 2 countries serves as a concrete action for both sides to combat trade protectionism.

Much of his speech focused on policy, free trade, low taxes, energy independence, and the Vietnam vets' strongest seat, foreign policy.

So was the week in Washington a good or a bad one for free trade? That depends on whether you care about symbolism or substance.

Relations between China and Taiwan have been warming recently, with talk of a free-trade deal and friendly bilateral meetings.

Relations with Latin America have been getting closer since the signing of the North American Free-Trade Agreement with Mexico in 1992.

If free trade is not ambitious enough, Mr Kan has set out to confront another taboo by June, with plans to raise the consumption tax.

And the fate of the free trade pact the administration negotiated with the Colombian government will soon be decided in the U. S. Congress.

The company can bring imported materials, parts and the finished product in to the free trade zone without payment of import duty.

Australia and China are undertaking a joint feasibility study into a possible Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

But if he is to remain the new icon for those who oppose free trade, they have to be pretty desperate.

The United States hopes to expand Pacific trade, and to finalize a framework for a Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade zone.

At present the public appears ambivalent: polls suggest mixed feelings on both free trade and a higher consumption tax.

"We believe that barriers to free trade destroy wealth and benefit no one in the long run, " they said.

A day after the debt deal, Senate leaders reached a sort of pact on moving the free-trade agreements forward.

Not surprisingly, the Japanese public tends to back more free trade.

On trade, Mr Obama used to demand the renegotiation of NAFTA; now he stresses his dedication to the cause of free trade.

The agreement is the largest such pact for the United States since the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994.

The conviction and jail sentence comes just as Ukraine hopes to sign a free trade agreement with the European Union.

Mr. Hatoyama, who wants to deepen economic ties among the nations of East Asia, also called for talks on a free-trade agreement.

Salinas was deeply committed to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he had negotiated with President Bush.

Yet some parts of the commission have been the doughtiest fighters for both free trade and enlargement.

The North American Free-Trade Agreement turned the city into a booming industrial centre.

That dilemma was symbolised by the battle to approve the Central American Free-Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the United States.

The footwear case emerged as a closely-watched test of the EU's commitment to free trade in the middle of an economic recession.

Similar self-interest in free trade did not save the Doha trade talks this year.

As a candidate, Obama criticized the North America Free Trade Agreement and proposed a deal that would have lowered barriers with Colombia.

The two sides will advance their negotiations on free trade agreement in an "active, realistic, balanced and mutually beneficial" manner.

Nonetheless, Obama "strongly supports" the general principles of free trade, they said.

Topics up for discussion include plans to lessen dependence on exports to the West by broadening regional free-trade agreements.

The New York Times has come out in favor of passage of the free trade agreement with Colombia.

Thailand said it would push ahead with the building of a China-ASEAN free trade zone.

Sweeping talk of a free-trade area is one thing; negotiating a deal quite another, requiring an attack on entrenched lobbies.

In the Senate, personnel changes also seem to favor the drive for free trade.

During the meeting held in Brazil last month the supporters of free trade argued that these economic policies could benefit all nations.

In Brussels Mr Cameron tells the EU to beware of breaking up the single market, and stoutly defends free-trade rules that apply to all.

Departing President Bush was unable to convince Congress to ratify free trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

The former command economies, when they were swept away, embraced the idea of a trading system with rules and free trade at its core.

Encompassing the many diverse agreements within a pan-Asian free trade area is the next big objective.

The problem is not the Chinese, nor the British people, nor the Yanks. It's the grotesquely rich and their free trade mantra.

The government fears losing competitiveness if it is shut out of free-trade agreements that other countries sign with China.

Russia has signed a free-trade deal with seven other former Soviet republics that will scrap export and import tariffs on a number of goods.

In contrast, Mr Ma insists that the proposed pact would make it easier for Taiwan to sign free-trade accords with third parties.

Ahead of the talks, Mr. Bush will visit a vegetable packing facility that benefits from free trade with the the United States.

But Colombian officials are annoyed that the United States has failed to ratify a free-trade agreement concluded in 2006.

She has pledged to continue the pro-business policies of her predecessor by courting international investment and expanding free trade.

As a supplement to the multilateral negotiation, bilateral trade agreements are significant for the realization of free trade.

First, let me congratulate the launch of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area as scheduled.

On Wednesday, the country's legislature suspended decrees that would implement a free-trade agreement with the U. S.

Start with country A. It boasts a free-trade policy to make it one of the world's most open economies.

Setting out the principles of a free trade agreement will not ease the pressure on Mr Yanukovich.

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Free Trade Zone by the State Council approved the establishment of the Customs supervision of the implementation of special economic region.

Taiwan in the past has approached the U. S. , Japan and Singapore as well as other Southeast Asian countries about having free-trade pacts.

Communication deepens understanding on commercial laws and investment policies between member countries of this free trade area.

Fairtrade gives its beneficiaries more of a lift than free trade does on its own.

Among those earning $75, 000 or more, 50% now say free-trade pacts have hurt the U. S. , up from 24% who said the same in 1999.

China - ASEAN Free Trade Area is at times against the background of gradually set up and developed.

According to statistics, bilateral trading growth had been accelerating since the Free Trade Area construction launched in 2002.

Both candidates have threatened to pull America out of NAFTA, the free-trade deal with Mexico and Canada, unless it is rewritten.

The American public, already skeptical of free trade, is becoming increasingly hostile to it.

China and New Zealand signed a sweeping free trade agreement Monday, the rising economic giant's first such pact with a developed country.

The European Parliament approved free-trade agreements between the European Union and Colombia, Peru and six Central American countries.

The principal political concerns of international marketers are the stability of governments and their attitudes toward free trade.

On business matters, Kan told reporters the leaders agreed to accelerate preparations for a trilateral free trade agreement.

Australian officials are still confident of signing a free trade deal with the United States by December.

Uribe; ColombiaThe president criticized U. S. lawmakers for blocking a vote on a free trade deal with Colombia which he says is.

Free trade and free movement of capital needed to be re-thought, participants insisted. Some even had ideas on what should replace it.

The United States has launched initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region to boost free trade, cultural and academic exchanges and security.

The White House denied any attempt by Mr. Bush to link aid for carmakers to passage of the free trade deal.

His support for free trade has never been more than tepid.

We have begun negotiating a free trade agreement with Malaysia and a bilateral investment treaty with Vietnam.

Gordon Brown said that protectionism was the road to ruin and reiterated the European Union's commitment to free trade.

Land areas used for planting fruits and vegetables has been influenced by free trade policy.

Finally, the core of any such agreement should be free trade.

The mercantilist view began to yield, after the late 18th century, to a free trade view.

I witnessed a sighing of an agreement to commence negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Austrilia and China.

The Singapore FreePort, a free-trade zone dedicated to the storage of high-value art and collectibles, is scheduled to open in May.

enterprise and free trade, render a sound financial system and a robust monetary regime, practise prudent.

The German leaders -- the German leaders reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes.

She says it is important because the agreement, or ECFA as it called, seeks to gradually transition Taiwan and China into a free trade zone.

Singapore has initiated Free Trade Agreement discussions with a number of countries.

a free-trade agreement with Central American nations. Democrats say the plan weakens labor rights and would cost jobs in the United States.

The ratification of a free-trade deal with the United States is also at risk.

A free-trade agreement between ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand is to be signed at the summit.

In January, Asean concluded a free-trade agreement with Beijing, giving Chinese companies preferential access to its market of 600m people.

Talks are under way for a free-trade agreement, and an annual Australia-China Strategic Dialogue has been inaugurated.

A Democratic Administration is apt to be particularly sensitive to union opposition to free-trade agreements.

Make great efforts in terms of improving its legal system, lowering import duty and promoting free trade.

The president also proposed a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific as a long-term goal for the group.

A senior U. S. trade official recently called on Congress to quickly ratify the free trade agreement between South Korea and the U. S.

For instance, is a "European model" based around open borders, free trade and generous welfare systems sustainable in a globalised world?

Demand preference of the same between countries should be mutual free trade policies and encourage the direct investment policy.

China hopes to sign a free trade deal this week with Peru to obtain better access to its copper and iron deposits.

But some quietly hope that the TPP will serve as a "docking station" for an APEC-wide free-trade area.

Free trade areas help member countries to trade their products at a lower tariff and in a more convenient manner.

In South Korea, President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak discussed a free trade agreement signed by their governments two years ago.

Full specialization is only possible when completely free trade is permitted.

Thelibertarian answers, presumably to be elicited by Lord Townshend's questions, are, respectively: free trade, no, and no.

If it expects the emerging China to practise free trade, it must set the right example.

S. economy. But here's how not to strengthen ties: tariffs on Brazilian steel and wavering on a free trade agreement with Colombia.

In July, the United States Congress narrowly ratified a free-trade agreement with Central America and the Dominican Republic.

Now, partly as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement, traffic has grown dramatically.

The strong performance of New Zealand exports to China has paralleled the entry into force of the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement.

To continue along the current path risks bringing down the free trade system that has served China so well.

Russia is the only major economy that is still not a member of the global free trade club.

Council of Ministers on how to achieve "the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area" (FTAAP) concept of economic integration and negotiate.

said that the two sides would discuss a partial free-trade agreement during the talks and sign agreements to increase economic cooperation.

abolished the male line system, allowing the British business with Chinese free trade.

Mr Hague suggests an offer by the European Union of a free trade area and, eventually, a customs union.

Free-trade agreements with the United States, the European Union and China place limits on economic change.

At the Fifth China-ASEAN Summit, the two sides agreed to gradually establish a China-ASEAN free trade zone in the next 10 years.

Apec leaders said they would examine "options and prospects" for a US-backed proposal to create a Pacific-wide free-trade area.

Those laws helped lay the foundation for Jordan to join the World Trade Organization and sign a free-trade agreement with the United States.

The Asian free trade zone, almost free trade zone, that's emerging now has a greater trade volume than trade across the Pacific.

The continent is being bound together by a strong spirit of free trade.

Some politicians are pushing for free trade between the U. S. And Japan.

Free trade remains a powerful motor for economic growth, as well as an instrument of U. S. diplomacy.

In recent years, the U. S. Congress has approved free-trade deals with Central American nations and Peru.

Bill Clinton and his crowd believed in free trade and free markets. They were friendly to business and wary of unions.

Spurred by concern about China's growing economic might, Germany is considering a plan for a free-trade zone between Europe and the US.

President Bush says campaigning for November elections should not block action on offshore oil drilling or new free trade agreements.

Second, it analyzes the current preferential tax policy for the domestic free trade zones and its legal issues.

Do not have bilateral free trade , do not realize sustained relative bilateral trade balance right away impossibly.

Our politicians have sold us in the name of free trade. . . all in Republican Southern States.

Some of them have been floating the idea of "free-trade zones" for data centres where common rules would apply.

Public support for free trade has been withering for a decade, tracking the decline in middle-class American manufacturing jobs.

He then went on argue that persistently misaligned exchange rates create "genuine problems for free-trade apologetics. "

So the environmental protection and free trade are the common aims of the international community.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an example of a preferential trading arrangement.

Few measures that we could take would do more to promote the cause of freedom at home and abroad than complete free trade.

But the case will be closely watched as a gauge of Obama's free trade credentials and his willingness to protect markets.

Tariffs on many goods exported to and imported from other nations have been eliminated by several regional free trade agreements.

The politician copped out on the issue of free trade.

Goods are shipped to Turkey or the rest of the Middle East through the customs-free Greater Arab Free Trade Area agreement.

Some regional diplomats see the Asean group as the kernel of a broader free-trade bloc spanning the Pacific.

The North American Free Trade Agreement is an extension of the 1989 Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.

At the news conference, President Bush also said Congress should approve a free trade agreement with South Korea this year.

Japan and South Korea have had bilateral free-trade discussions, but progress has been slow.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the trade agreement signed by the United States, Canada and Mexico in 1992.

CEPA 's form is that of a free trade agreement (FTA).

Chinese official said this week that China has not been asked to join the free trade partnership.

And yet that is exactly what we risk doing if Congress fails to pass the U. S. -Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

At the technical level, the problem is compounded by the proliferation of bilateral free trade agreements that has now spread to Asia.

If the play to the functions of the existing free trade zone, can replace the interim role, offshore, "Day" will be significantly reduced.

And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest.

With China - ASEAN Free Trade Area of the accelerated pace of the two fruits are worth looking forward to the prospects of trade.

A free-trade pact with the mainland is the cornerstone of his cross-strait policies.

The Status and Opportunity of Chinese Xishuangbanna Area in the Developments of the "China-Southeast Community Free Trade Region"

All the multilateral arrangements need to be examined for clauses that restrict the free trade.

At present there is no country with free trade and every country has a commercial policy oriented towards liberalization or protectionism.

Therefore, the "Prize income limit out" policy with the policy of free trade would be the same.

Australia and China, bilateral trade has grown rapidly, especially China and Australia Free Trade Agreement negotiations steadily.

Trollope's saga is set at a time when the Conservatives could govern only as a minority because of their split over Free Trade.

Agreements on agriculture reached in Vruguay Round are obviously defective and unfair although it sets the direction of free trade.

Mr. Bush said he will push hard for the principles of free trade.

With the construction of free trade areas going on, the economic cooperation between two parties will rise to a higher level.

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With its preferred instrument of Free Trade, ownership attempts to bring about the very crisis of over-production it once feared.