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APEC seeks to build vast free trade area (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (3rd L) and other foreign and trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries pose for a family photo in Yokohama, south of Tokyo November 10, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - * Draft says leaders to press for balanced growth


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Report slams U.S. effort to curb Mexico gun trade (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Mexican federal police present two suspected members of the Los Zetas drug cartel and weapons confiscated during their capture at a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City October 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mexican Federal Police/HandoutReuters - U.S. efforts to stop the “iron river” of guns headed south to Mexico’s drug war are being hampered by failures at the federal agency tasked with tracing and…

France, China urge balanced trade, reform (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Reuters - France and China have reached a “real convergence” over the need to reform the global financial system after two days of talks between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his…

Japan, India sign deal to boost trade, investment (AP)

October 25th, 2010

AP - The leaders of India and Japan signed a broad agreement Monday aimed at increasing trade and agreed to speed up talks toward a civilian nuclear energy deal —…

Pakistanis push trade, not just aid, after floods (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

In this picture taken on Sept. 28, 2010, Pakistani worker Aqeel Ahmed examines fabric at a textile factory in Faisalabad, Pakistan. This eastern Pakistani city is known for the roar of its power looms and the buzz of its sewing machines. Now, following massive floods that devastated the cotton crop, another noise is threatening to drown those out: the pleas of a struggling textile industry begging the U.S. and Europe to open their markets further. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - This eastern Pakistani city is known for the roar of its power looms and the buzz of its sewing machines. Now, following massive floods that devastated the cotton…

Taiwan’s legislature approves China trade pact (AP)

August 18th, 2010

A ruling party lawmaker holds a placard that reads 'ECFA will Save Taiwan' in support of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signed with China on the floor of parliament as the lawmakers continue to debate the agreement, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan. Opposition legislators are protesting the signed trade agreement with rival China saying it will undermine the island's self-rule and its economy. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Taiwan’s legislature has approved a landmark China trade pact, bringing the economies of the once bitter foes to their closest point in more than 60 years.


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British PM visits India to boost trade links (AP)

July 28th, 2010

British Treasury chief George Osborne poses for photographs with a bull sculpture at the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. British Prime Minister David Cameron and a massive delegation of Cabinet ministers and dignitaries fanned out across India on Wednesday in a visit aimed at rebuilding trade relations and other ties between the two nations. (AP Photo)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron and a massive delegation of Cabinet ministers and dignitaries fanned out across India on Wednesday in a visit aimed at rebuilding trade relations…

First steps toward arms trade treaty (AP)

July 24th, 2010

AP - The world’s nations took the first steps at a conference that ended Friday toward a legally binding treaty that would try to regulate the multibillion dollar arms trade…

In Congo forest, bushmeat trade threatens Pygmies (AP)

July 3rd, 2010

In this March 19, 2010 photo, Oskar Biteye, grandson of family chief Zaire and the group's youngest hunter, returns from the hunt with his day's catch, a forest antelope, in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo. The pygmies traditional practice of hunting bushmeat has devolved into an all-out commercial endeavor, staged not for subsistence, but to feed growing regional markets. The result: the forests, those that remain, are growing emptier by the day. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - They emerge from the stillness of the rainforest like a lost tribe of prehistoric warriors forgotten by time — a barefoot band of Mbuti Pygmies wielding iron-tipped spears.


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China, Taiwan sign trade pact linking economies (AP)

June 29th, 2010

Anti-China demonstrators pack a street as they march, denouncing the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) planned with China, Saturday, June 26, 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. opposition supporters chanted anti-communist slogans as they marched in Taiwan's capital Saturday to protest a planned trade agreement with rival China that they say will undermine the island's self-rule and its economy. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - A historic trade deal between China and Taiwan will ease 60 years of hostility and push their economies closer than ever, the latest sign that Beijing’s strategy of…

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