End Nears for Era of Presidential Trade Authority
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Barring a late-hour change of heart by Democrats on Capitol Hill, President Bush tonight will lose his authority to negotiate new trade deals, the latest sign that a decades-old American campaign to expand world commerce is foundering in the face of public unease.
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Leaders from 21 Asia-Pacific nations are expected to call on Sunday for a final conclusion to world trade talks that have dragged on for six years, ending a two-day summit dominated by climate change and trade.
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LISBON, Oct 21 (IPS) - It took just an eight-hour meeting in the  Portuguese  capital and a 25-line communique to destroy the last  remaining vestiges of  hope, after five years of efforts, of  reaching a free trade agreement  between the European Union and  South America's Mercosur trade bloc before  the current  members of the European Commission step down.
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The U.S. travel industry is looking forward to the end of George W. Bush's stay in the White House.
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After years of deterioration, the United States trade deficit appears to have finally peaked and started to decline.
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It is now officially out of their hands. It is now up to games yet to be played, to the computers, and to the pollsters around the country.
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But it's not going to the president's desk yet, as the House still has to approve the changes. The current ban is scheduled to expire next week.
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A world trade pact faces years of delays if no progress is made by the end of 2007, the US warns.
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A new global trade deal can be struck by the end of 2006, WTO director general Supachai Panitchpakdi says.
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Cowboy diplomacy. Unilateralism. Foreign governments have sharply criticized President Bush&#39;s foreign policy in many ways. But on one issue, international trade, you could almost hear a collective sigh of relief over his reelection.
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VIENTIANE, Laos Southeast Asian and Chinese officials put the final touches Friday on agreements for next week&#39;s regional summit meeting to create a free-trade area covering nearly two billion people by 2010.
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The United States and Russia could reach a deal on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2005, the two countries' top trade negotiators said January 31 after eight hours of meetings in ...
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President George W. Bush pledged Friday to work with Congress to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling after the international trade agency gave the go-ahead to other nations to impose anti-dumping duties on US goods.
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Franklin L. Lavin, under secretary of commerce for international trade, who prodded China to reduce trade barriers by backing new tariffs on Chinese goods, announced his resignation yesterday. Mr. Lavin plans to leave on July 13, less than two years after taking the post. He is joining the Washington office of Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate services company. He led negotiations for the United States at the World Trade Organization over how to rework trade laws.
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President Bush's top trade negotiator said Monday that quiet talks are under way with congressional Democrats seeking to bridge differences on labor and environmental standards in trade deals.
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The United States is crippled in  world trade talks and other trade negotiations because the  White House has lost key legislative authority, a top U.S.  trade official said on Wednesday.
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The Bush administration is billing  the collapse of world trade talks this week as good news for  its drive to renew negotiating powers in Congress, but it is  not clear that U.S. lawmakers will see things that way.