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The article talks about India it was firmly committed to the establishment of a free trade area in south Asia but emphasised that a review of several tariff and non-tariff barriers was necessary to augment formal trade in the region."We are firmly committed towards the establishment of a free trade area in south Asia. The region has a large potential common market and a large skilled low-wage workforce," Minister of State for External Affairs Digvijay Singh said here.There were several tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in the region which should be reviewed to augment formal trade within the region.

This article is interesting because it talks about the support the cable oligopoly is getting from the government. Apple is trying to enter the oligopoly, but the government is not allowing them to because they want to maintain the oligopoly. They don't want Apple taking a lot of the demand from other companies. Also, innovations have been lacking in cable TV and they don't want Apple to change that and cause price and demand shifts. 

This article is particularly relevant due to the fact that it has a strong example of an oligopoly and it illustrates the barriers of entry of one

This article is a fairly recent article that talks about international trading. Particularly, it talks about a free trade agreement that will soon be finalised between countries that could potentially represent 1/3 of global output. This free trade agreements seeks to reduce barriers in some countries allowing for easier trade and aims to increase the share of knowledge between the countries, trying to make the knowledge similar to a perfect competition scenario. However this agreement may lead to the alienation of power-house China, a heavily influential country that had not been invited to join the agreement. this could have potential backfires such as trade embargos, but for now we will have to wait and see.