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April 30, 2007 |
U.S., EU Agree To Reduce Regulatory and Trade Barriers
White House News
Washington -- The United States and the European Union (EU) have agreed to expand economic ties by cutting barriers to trade and investment and liberalizing restrictions on air travel. Joint commitments on a broad range of economic and security issues were signed April 30 during the annual U.S.-EU summit in Washington. |
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April 29, 2007 |
Growing Talk of a Japan-U.S. FTA
OhMyNews
apan has recently kicked off negotiations with Australia on concluding a free-trade agreement (FTA). The negotiations with Australia are particularly significant because they are Japan's first with a major agricultural exporter and are widely seen as a dry run for possible future talks with the United States.
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April 27, 2007 |
Feds threaten Texas over superhighway funds plan
Worldnet Daily
The Federal Highway Administration has threatened Texas with the loss of federal highway funds if the state continues with its legislative plan for a two-year funding moratorium on construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor. |
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April 26, 2007 |
Committee of MPs to study secret 'Three Amigos' scheme
The Ottowa Citizen
An all-party House of Commons committee will give the secretive North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) its first public airing beginning today. |
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April 24, 2007 |
Teamsters Sue to Stop Dangerous Plan to Open Border to Unsafe Mexican Trucks
Miscellaneous
WASHINGTON, April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union has
filed a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's illegal pilot program
authorizing unsafe Mexican trucks to operate freely in the United States. |
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April 23, 2007 |
NAFTA Superhighway hits pothole
Worldnet Daily
The Texas legislature moved closer to blocking the Trans-Texas Corridor last week with a bill that would place a two-year moratorium all public-private partnerships that would involve the construction of new toll roads financed and operated by private foreign investment groups. |
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April 23, 2007 |
Group protests Mexican truck project
BusinessWeek
Truckers and anti-illegal immigration forces joined hands at the Capitol on Monday to protest a Bush administration plan to let Mexican trucks haul freight deep into the United States. |
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April 21, 2007 |
U.S. economy poised for nose dive
Worldnet Daily
As the dollar sinks to near-record lows against the euro and the British pound, the stock market has returned to record highs, but investors are being advised to anticipate a worldwide downturn and the U.S. economy may have already entered a recession. |
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April 20, 2007 |
Factory Jobs: 3 Million Lost Since 2000
Associated Press
Three weeks ago, Dawn Zimmer became a statistic. Laid off from her job assembling trucks at Freightliner's plant in Portland, Ore., she and 800 of her colleagues joined a long line of U.S. manufacturing workers who have lost jobs in recent years. A total of 3.2 million—one in six factory jobs—have disappeared since the start of 2000. |
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April 20, 2007 |
One Reporter's Opinion — No to North American Union!
NewsMax
It is this reporter's opinion that hot on the heels of the president's visit to Yuma, Ariz., we are being bombarded by a massive propaganda campaign to convince the American people that our borders are, or soon will be, under control. |
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