Philippines fight over trade deal
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The Philippine government urges the country's senate to ratify a $4bn trade and jobs deal with Japan.
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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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WASHINGTON &#151; A business and labor coalition, seeking to apply political pressure before the presidential election, yesterday asked the Bush administration to bring a trade case accusing China of manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.
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House and Senate negotiators sought Monday to clear away roadblocks that have long hindered passage of a corporate tax bill needed to end a costly trade dispute with Europe.
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The United States and South Korea began a third round of free trade talks in Seattle, hoping to make progress toward an accord that could be the biggest of its kind for the United States since the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect in 1994. Critics from both countries planned demonstrations throughout the week, protesting what they characterize as an unfair bias in favor of multinational corporations with only token attention to issues like workersÂ rights and environmental protections. Wendy Cutler, the chief United States negotiator, is leading a team of more than 100 representatives from about 20 government agencies. South Korea sent 200 representatives.
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Deadlocked talks to end nearly 40 years   of Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippines should soon   resume but the region faces risks from clan wars, one of the   biggest aid donors to the region said on Thursday.
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The Philippine Congress begins debating an anti-terror bill aimed at tackling militants in the south.
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WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators Thursday were closing in on a deal on a massive tax and trade package that is the main obstacle to bringing the 109th session of Congress to an end.
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The dogfight between Europe and the United States over subsidies to airplane builders Airbus and Boeing is already potentially the largest trade dispute in history and looks set to get nastier.
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Washington (Associated Press) -- A decades-long struggle between the world&#39;s two largest aircraft makers has escalated into a new trade war between the United States and Europe, just as France-based Airbus is stepping up plans to challenge Boeing for
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A trade fight is heating up between the United States and Europe over commercial aircraft sales. Wednesday, Washington filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization alleging that EU countries unfairly
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By Frances Williams in Geneva and Raymond Colitt in SÃ£o Paulo. Developing countries in the World Trade Organisation remain split over what, if any action, the WTO should take to help smaller textiles producers
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As negotiators try to relaunch global trade talks in Brazil, one says failure to reach a deal could have dire consequences.
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It is a Texas showdown, a war of words over illegal immigration at the border.
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Asia-Pacific leaders will face challenges posed by a wave of bilateral free trade agreements when they meet for their summit in Chile Saturday.
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AUSTRALIA will begin talks with South East Asian nations on a free trade pact after Prime Minister John Howard headed off a row over his refusal to sign up to a non-aggression pact with the region.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations&#39; largest members are set to sign an agreement today to eliminate tariffs on goods ranging from cars to consumer electronics three years earlier than planned.