Karel de Gucht

Karel de Gucht

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  EU gets deal on trans-Atlantic trade pact mandate

  The European Union worked around French objections on Friday to agree on a free trade negotiating mandate for sweeping talks with the United States ... 

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  China slams EU solar duties, launches wine probe

  China announced a trade investigation of European wine Wednesday after the European Union hit Chinese exporters of solar panels with anti-dumping ... 

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  EU slaps levies on Chinese solar panel imports

  The European Union says it will impose anti-dumping levies on imports of Chinese solar panels, in a move that could trigger a trade war between two ... 

• EU: China may be dumping mobile network equipment

  A senior EU official says China may be illegally dumping and subsidizing the import into Europe of mobile telephone networks and their essential ... 

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  Bangladesh building-collapse toll tops 600

  More than 600 bodies have been recovered from the garment-factory building that collapsed well over a week ago, police said Sunday as the grim ... 

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  Pressure on Bangladesh, retailers to fix factories

  In the aftermath of a building collapse that killed more than 530 people, Bangladesh's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish. 

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  Unidentified victims of Bangladesh collapse buried

  Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers whose bodies were too battered or decomposed to be identified were buried in a mass funeral, a week after the ... 

• EU aims to get US trade deal by next year

  The European Union's top trade official says negotiations with the U.S. on what would become the world's largest free trade agreement should be ... 

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  Japan, EU agree to start free-trade negotiations

  Japan and the European Union agreed Monday to start negotiations for a free-trade pact encompassing nations that account for nearly a third of the ... 

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  New US-EU talks threatened by agriculture spats

  President Barack Obama used Washington's grandest stage — the State of the Union speech — to announce negotiations with Europe aimed at creating the ... 

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  EU, US to push for trans-Atlantic trade deal

  The European Union and the United States announced Wednesday that they have agreed to pursue talks aimed at achieving an overarching trans-Atlantic ...