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This article is about the possibility of a free trade area in Africa. This has been suggested as an anti-poverty strategy. Many barriers to trade currently exist between African countries, and their removal may encourage economic growth.

Malaysia is planning to join on the Trans-Pacific Partnership that United States is pushing to help its companies compete with counterparts in China and Europe.

Colombia initiated talks about a free trade agreement with Singapore that could clear the path to Colombia's membership of the APEC Pacific Rim trading bloc.

This article is talking about the unbalance between rich and poor countries in free trade. Here the article is raising the question about whether Africa benefits from free trade, or if it actually hurts the economy.

A group of United States congressmen yesterday sent a letter drafted with their legislative counterparts in Korea to Presidents Barack Obama and Lee Myung-bak urging the renegotiation of the U.S.-Korea bilateral free trade agreement. The letter calls for restrictions on certain service industries and a revision of provisions on a dispute settlement mechanism involving foreign companies. Beef and auto provisions, the main stumbling block to the ratification of the pact on the U.S. side, were not mentioned.

As growth in national economies continues to falter, many countries are attempting to increase their domestic prosperity by discouraging the sale of foreign products. With tariffs and other protective measures, countries are decreasing free trade in the interest of assissting domestic producers.

This article is about the Russian automobile industry and it mentions the need for trade to improve technology.

This article talks about developing countries, such as China and India, wanting to join in free trade with more developed countries in Europe and the US.

This article is about the attempt to agree on a free trade pact between the US and South Korea. The economies of both countries are hurt by protectionist measures, as they restrict the amount of exports.

This article speaks about how the balance of economic power has started shifting form the West to the east and talks about the role that developing countries have played as we approach the 10th anniversary of the Doha Development Agenda