The idea of a bilateral trade deal between America and the European Union has been around at least since the Europeans unsuccessfully touted a transatlantic free-trade area five years ago.
Meanwhile, the United States is close to completing a bilateral trade deal with Chile.
In contrast, U.S. buyers don't have to pay the surcharge, thanks to a bilateral trade accord with Singapore.
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Panama is likely to follow its neighbours with a bilateral trade pact with the United States in the next six months.
That is especially bad news for Mercosur, an agricultural superpower, which is one of the few areas in the region not actively negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with the United States.
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Meanwhile, two-way trade between India and Sri Lanka, which signed a bilateral free-trade agreement in 1999, is ballooning.
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Trade between the countries has been growing ever since they reached a bilateral free-trade agreement five years ago.
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Although he has spoken in support of free trade in the past (and voted for NAFTA), his more recent record includes "no" votes on the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and a number of bilateral free trade agreements.
Just look at this bar chart that depicts the importance of China to Ohio, and conversely, the costs of a real bilateral trade war.
One result has been that Australia is now the only major economy to have a bilateral free-trade agreement with America while also actively discussing one with China.
The US-Saudi relationship, for example, is flawed at a very deep and basic level, despite the existence of a massive bilateral arms trade that has gone on for decades.
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For nearly a century, between 1560 and 1640, this bilateral trade would earn Portugal fabulous wealth and make Macau a linchpin in her globe-straddling network of trade.
Those who urge that a global World Trade Organization agreement is preferable to a series of bilateral and multilateral pacts ignore the WTO's very limited progress towards creating global free trade.
And he has also said that if the Doha trade talks can't be restarted consideration should be given to a bilateral India-EU free-trade agreement.
They are sensible enough, though some, like a moratorium on bilateral trade deals, seem overly idealistic.
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Israel has more to learn from South Korea than Korea has to learn from Israel, billionaire businessman Stef Wertheimer told citizens of both countries at a conference on bilateral trade in Ramat Gan Monday.
It is a fact that the bilateral trade and bilateral relations between our two countries are extremely important for us as well.
Advancing the Soviet demand for a full-blown bilateral Trade Agreement to be consummated at the upcoming 1990 summit between Presidents Bush and Gorbachev.
The United States and Brazil enjoy a vibrant bilateral economic relationship through enhanced trade, investment, and cooperation in the energy infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development arenas.
The benefits of a multilateral trade deal are vastly superior to those of a patchwork of bilateral and regional agreements.
The United States is working on a Free-Trade Area of the Americas as well as a slew of bilateral deals.
WTO, but has also made it clear that it sees bilateral or regional free-trade agreements as a legitimate alternative.
Many bilateral trade deals offer favourable treatment to a few companies from a particular country at the expense of all the rest from elsewhere in the world.
However, Mr Hua and many other Chinese experts stress that the focus of the visits is on bilateral trade and investment rather than Beijing brokering a peace deal.
In a recent paper, we found that bilateral trade between European countries depends positively on the probability that two randomly chosen individuals, one from each country, would be able to communicate with each other in English.
Most can be mollified before they do serious damage, but the bent to battle "unfair" liberalization of commerce doesn't bode well--not for the WTO 's Doha Round, already on life support, not for a new Pacific Rim attempt and not for bilateral trade pacts.
The origins of the dispute lie in America's decision, at Boeing's prompting, to withdraw in 2004 from a 12-year-old bilateral agreement with Europe governing trade in large civil aircraft.
For a start, bilateral deals impose so much paperwork and bureaucracy on trade that companies rarely make use of their provisions.
The annual ECD fosters a high-level dialogue between both governments to promote bilateral trade and investment and to further bilateral Poland economic and commercial relations.
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