DEVELOPMENT:     ACP Nations Opt for Trade on Their Terms
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KHARTOUM, Dec 8 (IPS) - Leaders of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)  Group of States wrapped up their fifth summit Friday in the  Sudanese capital, Khartoum -- this after two days of debate over  trade relations between the ACP, a 79-member grouping that  includes some of the world's poorest nations -- and the  European Union (EU).
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Pacific Rim trading nations said on Wednesday they should pool their influence to breathe new life into talks to free up world trade.
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Ministers from trade powers tried on Sunday to push forward talks for a long-delayed deal to boost global commerce and ease poverty which risks running out of time this year.
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Officials call on international community to open crossing points for trade.
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World trade talks have made a lot of  progress in the past year but the final outcome will depend  largely on the willingness of advanced developing countries to  open their markets, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said  on Monday.
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ISLAMABAD: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) members have set up a body to focus on cotton as a specific issue in the agriculture talks, as required in the decision called the âJuly Packageâ taken in August this year to all the WTO negotiations, it
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The last chance for a world trade deal could slip away in the next few months unless India, Brazil and other advanced developing countries offer meaningful commitments to open their market to more foreign goods, U.S. private sector experts said on Tuesday.
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The last chance for a world trade  deal could slip away in the next few months unless India,  Brazil and other advanced developing countries offer meaningful  commitments to open their market to more foreign goods, U.S.  private sector experts said on Tuesday.
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Trade, apart from peace and prosperity, is always held up as the great EU success story. If only the EU could get its act together in other areas, such as foreign affairs, it would be a global power, the argument runs.
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Pacific Rim nations have agreed to set minimum standards for two-country free trade pacts proliferating across the region, a consolation prize for business leaders pushing for a 21-nation free trade area to rival the European Union.
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TALKS on a free trade agreement with China will begin in March, opening a porthole to the world&#39;s biggest market. An Asia-Pacific regional trade agreement, potentially worth more than $190 billion, also looks more likely than ever before.
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The Jan. 1 abolition of trade quotas may not be as hard on textile and apparel makers in poor countries as many experts had thought.
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Many in the beet industry have taken the trade deal, a pact with Central American countries signed by the administration, as a sign of fading support for sugar protections, and they are fighting back.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec 21 (IPS) - Come Jan.1 a new trade and aid pact between fifteen  Caribbean nations and the  27 members of the European Union (EU)  kicks into force heralding in a new era  in relations between the  two trade blocs that will be based largely on reciprocity  rather  than protected trade, as has been the case for centuries.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (IPS) - One of the most persistent criticisms levelled at  the European Union's conduct towards poor countries is that  it gives with one hand and takes with the other. Despite being  the world's largest donor of development aid, the EU pursues  trade, agriculture and fisheries policies that many anti-poverty  activists blame for perpetuating -- and exacerbating -- global  inequalities.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27  (IPS) - The new EU member states will soon take lessons in  development cooperation from  developing countries.
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Pacific Rim trading nations said on Wednesday they should pool their influence to energize talks to free up world trade. As trade and foreign ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific