Then in September the government passed a law to permit the formation of trade unions.

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President Bush has begun lobbying for the formation of a free trade area (FTA) between Columbia and Peru.

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In foreign exchange markets, the euro was higher against the dollar in late Asian trade as investors cheered the formation of a new government in Italy following a weeks-long political impasse in the wake of February's inconclusive general election.

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The leaders of a recipient country may know that they should free up trade, facilitate new business formation, streamline licensing procedures, and improve protection of private property.

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He tackles the big issues past and present, such as the formation of the Hanseatic League, set up to organise maritime trade, the slave ships which trafficked 11m Africans across the ocean between the 15th and the 19th centuries and the recent collapse of the cod fisheries.

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"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.

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The idea was discussed following the formation of a working group in 2011, and the formal talks may begin in the summer, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said.

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