U.S.-Andean Trade Talks Extended
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Trade negotiators for the United States, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador have abandoned their goal of finishing a free trade agreement by mid-January and laid out a schedule for at least two more rounds of talks, a U.S. official said on Saturday.
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Lucent Technologies Inc.  and unions representing roughly 10 percent of the telecommunications equipment maker's work force on Sunday agreed to extend talks, their second extension in 10 days.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe agreed on Tuesday to boost security cooperation and restart stalled trade deals after meeting to end a dispute over a captured Colombian guerrilla leader.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rich countries and developing nations agreed yesterday that global trade talks should resume, but they failed to set a date for formal negotiations.
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Seoul agreed to resume beef imports as negotiators try to beat the expiration date of President Bushâs âfast-trackâ authority.
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Officials call on international community to open crossing points for trade.
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The U.S. trade deficit widened to $54 billion in August, the second-highest in a string of record monthly trade gaps that shows no sign of abating.
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The European Union made an improved counter-offer Wednesday to unblock stalled free-trade talks with Mercosur, but pressed the Latin American bloc for more a month ahead of a deadline for a deal.
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Latin American leaders wrap up a summit in Bolivia with a call for more regional initiatives and integration.
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Negotiators worked into the final night of a two-week U.N. conference Friday in search of a way to bring the United States back into long-term talks on controlling global warming. Argentine organizers said they were optimistic about a compromise.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The United States and Russia have been granted a five-year extension to the 2007 deadline for destroying their chemical weapon stockpiles, the international organization overseeing the process said Monday.  U.S.
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While the market in Central and South America is growing faster than the U.S., Asia, and most of Europe, it still faces some challenges that need to be overcome.
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Negotiators from the European Union and South America's four-nation Mercosur trade bloc on Wednesday failed to reach agreement on a deal to keep alive their attempt to create the world's biggest free-trade area.
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The U.S. trade envoy met Friday with ministers from five southern African countries in hopes of advancing negotiations on the United States' first free-trade agreement in sub-Saharan Africa.
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A trade pact between the United States and Peru won bipartisan support, signaling that some Democrats will be receptive to trade deals that adhere to certain labor and environmental standards.
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The South American trade bloc Mercosur and the European Union said after a ministerial meeting Sunday they hope to conclude stalled talks about free-trade agreement on time.
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U.S. food producers significantly increased their sales to Cuba last year despite a long-standing trade embargo against the communist island, according to a Cuba-U.S. business group.