Does anyone have a figure for south-south trade in the last year that strips out China?
And one of the interesting things, we've started to see a big increase in south-south trade and investment flows.
Second, despite the enthusiastic figures presented by the World Trade Organization, the European Commission informs me that much of the south-south trade is just trade with China, not the regional trade the poorest regions need.
With inflation and output both on the downtrend in large markets like China and Brazil, the stage is set for a soft landing and an emergence of South-South trade that will further de-couple EMs from Europe and North America.
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However, South African Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies believes that although China may be shrinking the local clothing sector, South Africa and the continent at large benefit from its huge mining investments.
The changes should not only protect journalists but citizens as well, said a spokesman for Congress of South African Trade Unions.
And the Mercosur South American trade organization suspended Paraguay from its ranks.
Detroit ultimately, albeit reluctantly, acquiesced to a U.S.-South Korea trade pact touching on similar issues of non-tariff barriers to trade that Japan raises.
The 2m-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions staged a one-day strike and threatened another bigger one unless the whole system was scrapped.
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The White House could use its South Korean trade pact as a late bargaining chip for fast-track renewal, though it might be a low-value one.
It could withstand the influx of cheap Asian goods cars, electronics and textiles that are pouring in, despite the barriers of Mercosur, the South American trade grouping.
To the east are towering green mountains, and to the west, rare pink dolphins share the delta waters with cargo ships plying the South China trade.
In the past five years the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has been criticised by many of its members for not fighting their corner hard enough.
They also complained about his conduct to a summit meeting this week of the countries of Mercosur, the South American trade block, of which Paraguay is the poorest and most backward member.
Mr. Obama, on his first trip to Asia which will also include China and South Korea, said his administration would work out the issues that are currently blocking the U.S.-South Korea trade pact.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) demanded an excessive 8.6% pay rise, more than double the rate of inflation, at a time when the country's recovery from last year's recession is fragile.
Much of the delay--particularly on the South Korean trade deal, where access to the country's auto market is a sore point for some U.S. lawmakers--is due to Congress, which is beholden to a variety of special interests.
Mr. Kay also would use economic and financial pressure points, especially suspending South Korean trade links with the North and Japan's money flows to North Korea, to compel Pyongyang to accept aggressive, intrusive inspections of its nuclear facilities.
On Wednesday, the governing African National Congress (ANC) party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) demanded an investigation into how the guests of the family flew from India to the Waterkloof Air Force Base near Pretoria.
Northerners have held political power almost continuously during that time, but most of the country's wealth has come from oil in the south-east and trade in the south-west.
Apart from international shipping, Bolivia is also making a bid for seagoing and riverborne trade within Mercosur, the South American free-trade group.
On his southern trip, Mr Fox expressed polite interest in Mexico's reaching a free-trade agreement with Mercosur, South America's main trade block.
The CEO of Ford has been critical of the South Korean free trade agreement.
We've also, of course, seen the South Korea free trade agreement that we completed come into force.
Long-overdue ratification of a U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is vital to reverse our waning influence in East Asia.
In 2011, the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement was ratified by both governments and is projected to go into effect in early 2012.
Chief Executive Greg Brown said growing corporate profits and business-friendly moves by the administration chiefly, its work to move the South Korea free trade agreement contributed to a "constructive" atmosphere.
While several signs point to passage of the Latin American deals, the pending South Korean free trade agreement, hatched at the eleventh hour earlier this month, will be tougher to get through Congress.
Obviously, we have concerns about -- you heard the President enumerate those concerns back even several years about some of the auto provisions in the South Korean free trade agreement that was submitted by the Bush administration.
Administration officials counter that they successfully resisted most protectionist pressures during the recession, and note the president's emphasis on the need to boost U.S. exports and his support for breaking the gridlock holding up approval of a U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement.
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