GenevaLunch » free trade agreement http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Swiss, Chinese free trade: “good progress” made http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/swiss-chinese-free-trade-good-progress-made/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/swiss-chinese-free-trade-good-progress-made/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:56:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64208 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – “Switzerland’s free trade agreement negotiations with China are in a rather early stage but they are well underway” following the third round of talks between the two countries, Swiss Ambassador and Delegate for Trade Agreements Christian Etter has told GenevaLunch. Switzerland, which has a trade surplus with China despite the former’s small size, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/swiss-chinese-free-trade-good-progress-made/feed/ 1 Switzerland, China, inch closer to free trade http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/27/switzerland-china-inch-closer-to-free-trade/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/27/switzerland-china-inch-closer-to-free-trade/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:23:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32439 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland and China will initial an agreement in Geneva 30 November to undertake a feasibility study for a free trade agreement. The two countries agreed early in 2009 to work together to this end and they will now formalize the work. Bilateral trade between the two was CHF11.1 billion in 2008, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/27/switzerland-china-inch-closer-to-free-trade/feed/ 0 Cheese and gift fruits highlight Japan-Switzerland trade treaty http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/12/cheese-and-gift-fruits-highlight-japan-switzerland-trade-treaty/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/12/cheese-and-gift-fruits-highlight-japan-switzerland-trade-treaty/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:56:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=24827 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Details have now been published by the Swiss government of the new free trade agreement between Japan and Switzerland that goes into effect 1 September 2009. High on the list of special items for which no tax import duty will be charged is  “gift” fruit coming to Switzerland from Japan. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/12/cheese-and-gift-fruits-highlight-japan-switzerland-trade-treaty/feed/ 0 Japan and Switzerland enter free trade deal http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/31/japan-and-switzerland-enter-free-trade-deal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/31/japan-and-switzerland-enter-free-trade-deal/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:17:07 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=23741 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland and its largest commercial partner in Asia, Japan, will officially begin a free trade agreement 1 September. Switzerland has become the first European nation to enter an economic alliance with the “Land of the Rising Sun.” Swiss Federal authorities made the announcement 29 July of the agreement on free trade [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/31/japan-and-switzerland-enter-free-trade-deal/feed/ 0 Peru parliament votes to suspend controversial laws on forests http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/11/peru-parliament-votes-to-suspend-controversial-laws-on-forests/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/11/peru-parliament-votes-to-suspend-controversial-laws-on-forests/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:40:12 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=19940 GenevaLunch.com Peru’s parliament voted in favour of suspending a controversial “legislative decree” 9 June and agreed to review the laws with increased input from native peoples of the Amazon region.”We hope to find the necessary consensus with the native communities and to be able to incorporate our international obligations as soon as possible”, said trade minister, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/11/peru-parliament-votes-to-suspend-controversial-laws-on-forests/feed/ 0 China and Switzerland: investment protection signed, free trade under study http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/28/china-and-switzerland-investment-protection-signed-free-trade-under-study/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/28/china-and-switzerland-investment-protection-signed-free-trade-under-study/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:23:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=11259 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland Tuesday became the first country whose investors will receive a “higher level” of protection in China, under the terms of a bilateral agreement signed during a working visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The two countries also agreed to set up a working group to study a free trade agreement [...]

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