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The European Union and the United States are a bit further apart than they were a week ago on settling their differences in the agriculture Doha Development Agenda negotiations.

On 6 December 2006, the EU Commission announced that it had finalised three draft mandates for negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with ASEAN, Korea and India, together with two mandates for negotiations with Central America and the Andean Community.

Trade negotiators from the US and European Union are edging a deal that could restart stalled world trade talks, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The Group of 33 developing countries in the WTO has warned the World Bank that its revised draft paper on agricultural special products (SPs) is fundamentally flawed in its assumptions and methodology and could have adverse consequences for the Doha Round negotiations.

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International intellectual property rights laws will take precedence whenever they are applied in Chinese domestic trials even if they differ from domestic laws, a senior judicial figure told a national conference on IPR-related trials according to the China Daily newspaper

Pirates and licensed trawlers are pillaging the world's oceans, while proposals on the table for trade ministers meeting in Switzerland next week could prove the final blow to sea life, Greenpeace said on Friday.

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the Lawyers

International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz has not addressed the main concerns surrounding the US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), claimed a regional grouping of fishermen and farmers today.

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