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Landmark US-Mexico trucking agreement resolves 15-year conflict

Howard LaFranchi Christian Science Monitor 07/06/2011
Landmark US-Mexico trucking agreement resolves 15-year conflict

The United States and Mexico on Wednesday signed an agreement aimed at resolving a cross-border trucking dispute. The longstanding disagreement had come to symbolize growing resistance, especially in the US Congress, to free-trade provisions with America’s southern neighbor.

China says to maintain trade cooperation with Iran

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang told the visiting Iranian oil minister on Friday that Beijing would maintain cooperation with Tehran on existing projects, after the United States called on Beijing to observe sanctions.

Asian Leaders Focus on Freer Trade

THOMAS FULLER The New York Times 10/25/2009

US Retail Sales Slide In March Isn't A Surprise; Gains Are

Karen Talley The Wall Street Journal 04/14/2009
Asian Leaders Focus on Freer Trade

CHA-AM, Thailand -- Japan and China laid out competing visions of how to create a European Union-style trade bloc in Asia at a regional summit here Sunday, with China pushing for stronger ties with its trading partners in Southeast Asia while Japan held open the door for the U.S. to play a role in a proposed East Asia regional trade group.

US Retail Sales Slide In March Isn't A Surprise; Gains Are

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The real surprise in the U.S. retail sales figures the government released Tuesday isn't that they fell in March, but that they rose in January and February. The first-quarter numbers capture the unpredictability of fearful consumers, say analysts.

State Officials Charge 17 in Illegal Animal Trade

A. G. SULZBERGER New York Times 03/19/2009
State Officials Charge 17 in Illegal Animal Trade

The smugglers moved their goods across borders using secret compartments, a Maryland meat processing plant and the help of a corrupt Louisiana turtle farm. Their lucrative product: rattlesnakes, snapping turtles and salamanders.

South Korea remains against redo of US free trade deal

SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea said Tuesday it remains opposed to renegotiating a free trade agreement with the United States after hawkish comments on the landmark deal by the man nominated to be President Barack Obama's top trade official.

China’s Foreign Trade Faces Arduous Challenges, Ministry Says

China’s foreign trade faces “arduous challenges” this year, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement before a news briefing in Beijing today.

S.Korea backs free trade deal with Australia-report

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will support a free trade deal with Australia, a media report said on Wednesday, ahead of a trip on which he is also expected to sign a security pact between the two countries.

China Communications Says Falling Trade Hurts Port Building

China Communications Construction Co., the world’s biggest port builder, said slumping global trade has hurt demand for port machinery and building orders.

US Government Report Identifies Guinea-Bissau Role in International Drug Trade

It is not known how much of a role the illegal international drug trade had in boosting tensions between Guinea-Bissau's president and the military before Sunday's and Monday's assassinations of General Batista Tagme Na Waie and President Joao Bernardo Vieira.


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