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India
studying trade cum economic pact with China
India Infoline News Service, January 24,
2008
The Indian
Minister for Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath,
has stated that India is studying the
possibilities for a long-term trade and
economic cooperation agreement with China,
which is emerging as a major trade partner.
The government is also working on a
comprehensive relationship with the Gulf
Cooperation Council, and has signed
framework agreements for cooperation with
the South African Customs Union, COMESA in
Africa and with MERCOSUR and the Andean
Community in South America besides forming
regional trade and economic alliances and
signing Free Trade Agreements and
Preferential Trade Agreements with other
countries.
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Political
economy of regional integration in southern
africa
The Swazi Observer, January 21, 2008
A senior
lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s
Graduate School of Business, Dr. Mills Soko
analyses some of these through a policy
paper: ‘The Political Economy of Regional
Integration in Southern Africa’, focusing on
southern Africa and paying particular
attention to the two main regional
integration entities, the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) and the
Southern African Customs Union (SACU).<<More>>
Guyana and
the wider world
Stabroek News, January 20, 2008
Not since William
Demas's anguished personal communication on
the occasion of his discovery of the
neo-conservative proposal known as the 'Shiprider
Solution: Policing the Caribbean' in the
Spring 1996 issue of the National Interest,
which he circulated to those whom (I have
since come to learn) represented every
thinking West Indian he could reach, has there
been such profound intellectual unease about
the future direction of the region.<<More>>
Wanted, a
Bismarck for South Asia
Economic Times, January 19, 2008
As a sequel to
the recent agreement between Pakistan and
India, hailed as a major breakthrough in
bilateral trade negotiations, lorries have
now begun to cross over and get offloaded at
‘no man’s land’ across the Wagah-Attari
border on either side.
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Rules of
Origin: Diverse Treatment and Future
Development in the Asia and Pacific Region
UNESCAP, January 2008
This paper
addresses the broad spectrum of Rules of
Origin (RoO) in the Asia and Pacific region
covering preferential and non-preferential
types and its impacts on RTAs investment
decisions. It examines the qualifying
criteria under RoO and how it is practiced
in different RTAs, especially in
Asia-Pacific RTAs. It touched upon the big
question whether harmonaisation of RoO is
possible.<<More>>
Europe
Hungrily Eyes India
National Journal, January 12, 2008
What if the
world’s largest market and the world’s
second-largest emerging economy deepen their
trade relationship—and Washington sleeps
through it? While Democratic presidential
candidates regularly bash trade, and the
White House and Congress spar over an
economically insignificant free-trade deal
with Colombia, the European Union and India
are quietly negotiating an unprecedented
commercial relationship.<<More>>
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