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The EU must pursue an aggressive agenda to open foreign markets to its goods and services even if the current round of world trade liberalisation talks is successful, according to a paper drawn up by the directorate-general of Peter Mandelson, the European commissioner for trade.

There has been an unusually quiet atmosphere at the World Trade Organisation since the Ministerial-level meetings ended on 1 July without substantive result.

Commerce & industry minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday said that India cannot offer further market access in agriculture and industrial goods sector, till developed countries agree to reduce agriculture subsidies substantially.

As President Bush once tried to say, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Paul Wolfowitz, who fooled us once when he was pitching the line about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as the Deputy Secretary of Defense, is now out to fool us again.

A new report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that U.S. imports, measured in non-dollar currencies, are projected to decline over the next decade.

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The Korean government is to present a public announcement regarding the Korea-U.S. FTA at Central Government Complex on July 7.

Ministers of developing countries expressed their concerns about the Ministerial meeting and the current state of play of the Doha negotiations as

The Doha negotiations reached crisis point when the WTO Ministerial meetings of last weekend in Geneva fell apart.

Asia's poorest countries are being out-muscled economically by China and remain stranded in poverty despite a regional boom in free trade, the United Nations says.