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<title>EIN News: China, Taiwan &amp; Hong Kong Agriculture Trade Barriers News</title>
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<title>WTO talks in push today to avert failure</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180197827</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  failed to move far on issues from farm subsidies to car import duties. Top U.S.  ...  EU want big developing countries like India, China and Brazil to respond to their offers on opening up their agriculture markets. But these countries say the rich  ...
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<title>India unwilling to bail out high cost European industry:Nath</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180196417</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the developing countries on industrial goods and agriculture. He said India is keen to have  ...  the principle of &apos;less-than-full-reciprocity&apos; agreed in the Hong Kong declaration. &quot;Every movement I make, you (developed  ...  spokesperson Keith Rockwell said. Core issues in farm and industrial sector like cotton subsidies, anti-concentration  ...
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<title>No Deal Yet as WTO Chief Extends Trade Talks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180191158</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 06:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  - the European Union (EU), US, Brazil, China, India, Australia and Japan - where discussions  ...  focused on six key issues in the agricultural talks and three issues in industrial talks.  ...  domestic support for developed countries; cotton; top-tier tariff cuts for developed countries; sensitive and special  ...
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<title>No deal yet as WTO chief extends trade talks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180184652</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 05:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...   the European Union (EU), US, Brazil, China, India, Australia and Japan  where discussions  ...  focused on six key issues in the agricultural talks and three issues in industrial talks.  ...  domestic support for developed countries; cotton; top-tier tariff cuts for developed countries; sensitive and special  ...
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<title>Last minute efforts to break global trade deadlock</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180179099</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 05:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the EU, Japan, India, Brazil, Australia and China were involved in talks until the early  ...  it offered on Tuesday to slash its farm subsidies. &quot;Let&apos;s put it this way: some  ...  Schwab. Speaking from Brasilia Reinhold Stephanes Brazil&apos;s agriculture minister said &amp;ldquo;this round is pointless. There  ...
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<title>From Flat World To Free World</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180177247</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 05:01 GMT</pubDate>
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...  funds springing up in the Middle East, China, Brazil and wherever else oil and export  ...  of the Americas (FTAA) would soon topple trade barriers throughout the hemisphere. Although such agreements don&apos;t  ...  Meanwhile, Congress has blithely pushed through a farm bill whose trade-distorting provisions seem certain to  ...
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<title>Into Africa</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180173942</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:46 GMT</pubDate>
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...  road out of colonialism, a new pseudo-colonial power--China--is busily engaged in getting exactly what it  ...  states. Just in the past three years, Beijing has signed energy deals with Algeria, Nigeria,  ...  as the continent&apos;s largest producer of oil. Chinese investment in Africa took off exponentially in  ...
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<title>Going Nuclear</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180170997</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:40 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Their crusade was assisted immeasurably by The China Syndrome , an intellectually vapid film whose  ...  percent), a highly inefficient system that uses agricultural waste to produce electricity; to shift Americas  ...  it currently is. During the 1973 oil embargo, nuclear technology produced only 5 percent of  ...
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<title>Commentary: When Politics and Trade Collide</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180170279</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  whose foodservice equipment export firm helped launch China&apos;s second McDonald&apos;s, has managed global business interests  ...  comprehensive and not only deal with eliminating tariffs on manufactured and agricultural products but open up service markets and  ...
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<title>Tim Wilson: No Doha deal better than a dud</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180162363</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 02:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  European Union to cut deep into their agriculture subsidies. In exchange they want developing countries,  ...  trade policy. At the last mid-term elections protectionist Democrats took control of the US Congress.  ...  blame lost jobs on off-shoring and cheap Chinese labour. However, there remains a slim chance  ...
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<title>Trade: Kamal Nath sets conditions for success of WTO talks by Kanaga Raja</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180161738</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 02:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  countries) so that it stimulates investment in agriculture in the developing countries, Indian Commerce and  ...  various boxes and a strong result in tariff simplification and tariff capping in agriculture. This  ...  in NAMA, but obviously it&apos;s in the Hong Kong text that there is a correlation between  ...
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<title>&quot;Big divergences&quot; hamper progress in WTO talks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180158752</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 01:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  it easier for developing countries to export farm produce by reducing rich countries&apos; subsidies and  ...  rich countries&apos; subsidies and import tariffs on agricultural goods. The United States and the European  ...  no details. The ministers from Australia, Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Japan and the  ...
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<title>WTO talks to enter 5th day with no breakthrough reported</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180158289</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 01:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in areas ranging from the capping of agricultural subsidies to proposed tariff treatment of manufactured  ...  urged the United States to cut its farm subsidies further after Schwab announced Washington could  ...  European Union, Japan, Australia, Brazil, India and China had worked overnight Wednesday for a compromise  ...
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<title>Western Cape rises to renewable-energy challenge</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180155906</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 01:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  today&apos;s podcast: Telkom seeks to raise its tariffs by 2,4%, energy would be the focus  ...  Bay, where work on a new wind farm will start within 14 months. The project  ...  is way behind Brazil, Russia, India and China, especially concerning renewable energy. There are overseas  ...
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<title>WTO and the hypocrisy of rich nations</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180152869</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 00:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  But fortunately they couldn&apos;t do so until China, India and Brazil agreed with them. Wednesday  ...  the US had agreed to cut its farm subsidy. That should have removed a major  ...  countries&apos; terms in Geneva by Friday morning (Beijing time). But it is high time the  ...
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