The trade pact will be a test of whether that hope can be fulfilled.
But France continues to block Sir Leon's dream of a new transatlantic trade pact with America.
The president's comments came as trade representatives from the United States and Jordan signed a free-trade pact.
The benefits of connecting the continents in a free trade pact are obvious for the United States.
Both governments insist that they see Mercosur as a permanent, geopolitical alliance, not just a trade pact.
IMF, would be mildly interventionist in economic matters, and wants to revive the Mercosur trade pact with Brazil.
The new agreement, which revises a 2007 Korean trade pact negotiated by President Bush, was announced late Friday afternoon.
Particularly egregious is its failure to complete a free-trade pact with Chile, a beacon of light in otherwise frightful South America.
He has privatized most of the country's state-owned industries, implemented a free-trade pact with the U.S. and revamped the school system.
Panama is likely to follow its neighbours with a bilateral trade pact with the United States in the next six months.
Trade unionists and development activists, as well as many Democrats in the US, favour including such standards in any new trade pact.
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 Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact that soon could include several states with more market economies than China, is drawing interest from Japan.
In Indonesia, textile, furniture and electronics manufacturers are shouting about imports from China that followed the lifting of tariffs in a regional free-trade pact.
The trade pact would involve slashing duties on over 90% of India-EU trade and open up mutual markets for services and investment, ET reported.
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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.
India, in addition to its free trade pact with ASEAN, has bilateral trade agreements with Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
After the talks President Bush gave the king a pen he had used earlier in the day to sign a free trade pact with Jordan.
Nothing unusual, but it augured well, especially for the Free-Trade Area of the Americas the proposed trade pact that Lula once dismissed as a gringo cabal.
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Every continent bar Antarctica now has its own frontier-lowering trade pact.
In fact, when Gorbachev personally and insistently pressed the President to initial the new trade pact, Mr. Bush threw both of these preconditions over the side.
Analysts said that a trade pact such as the TPP would open up growth opportunities for Japanese businesses and give them easier access to these markets.
U.S. citizens are exempt from paying the fee as a result of a nine-year-old trade pact that requires that U.S. investors be treated the same as Singaporeans.
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The trade pact is part of a deal between the U.S. and China as the Asian nation seeks to ease its way into the World Trade Organization.
Approving the trade pact would end the annual debate over whether China should get normal trade relations -- a designation previously known as Most Favored Nation (MFN) status.
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Friday's meeting was an opportunity for the U.S. to gauge Tokyo's intent to join negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a regionwide free-trade pact pushed by Washington.
And in June 2010, the two countries signed an historic trade pact that was described by some analysts as the most significant agreement in 60 years of separation.
The EU implemented one with South Korea, recently concluded one with Singapore, is negotiating another with Canada, and has begun talks with Tokyo over a free trade pact.
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House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Missouri) has recently come out against the trade pact, and organized labor is also opposed, saying the agreement would take jobs away from American workers.
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Last year China made a substantially improved offer to join the GPA. The EU has concluded a trade pact with South Korea and is negotiating with India, Canada and others.
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