Yesterday, key government officials, trade stakeholders, and members of the press were on hand to witness U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Panamanian Minister of Commerce and Industry Ricardo Quijano sign a letter exchange setting a date for the entry-into-force of the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA).

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"I have visited the factory a couple of times, " the letter date Feb. 8 reads, according to a copy published Wednesday in Les Echos newspaper.

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That letter had made Findus "aware of a possible August 2012 date" for the contamination, the company said.

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Although the Notice of Claim Disallowance letter sent by the Service generally contains a statement advising the taxpayer that the two-year period began on the date of the letter, the Service occasionally mails these letters without the paragraph notifying the taxpayer of the two-year period for filing suit.

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Each submission to the Journal was accompanied by a single-spaced letter of two or three pages, bringing me up to date on his travels, his retreat in the Rocky Mountains, his thoughts on events outside the realm of his columns.

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