Cuba, US sign major food deals
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HAVANA - Fidel Castro may have recently stopped circulation of US dollars in Cuba, but that isn&#39;t stopping a multi-million dollar agricultural deal between the two countries.
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U.S. food producers significantly increased their sales to Cuba last year despite a long-standing trade embargo against the communist island, according to a Cuba-U.S. business group.
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The US and South Korea sign a free trade agreement, the biggest such deal the US has sealed in 15 years.
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Communist Cuba said adios yesterday to the Yankee dollar that shored up its struggling economy for a decade, launching a two-week process to eliminate the US currency from its stores
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WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed a free trade agreement with Morocco, helping his goal of creating a US-Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) by 2013, the White House said.
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A retaliatory 10% tax on exchange operations involving US dollars comes into force in Cuba on Monday.
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Cuba and Panama agree to restore ties after having talks on the sidelines of the Ibero-American summit.
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Latin America&#39;s agricultural giant won a pair of trade victories against farm subsidies for rich countries after the World Trade Organization agreed that Brazilian farmers have been hurt by government assistance for US cotton farmers and European Union
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The Bush administration announced Monday that it reached agreement with Peru on free trade pact amendments that address Democratic concerns on worker rights and the environment.
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With a catfish fry for Cuban officials and pleas to U.S. President George W. Bush to ease sanctions, dozens of American businessmen began negotiating new sales of agricultural products to communist Cuba on Monday.
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American producers sold $437.5 million in food to Cuba in 2007, a new peak in value despite Cuban complaints that the Bush administration is hindering trade.
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High-level officials from Egypt, Israel and the United States signed a three-way trade deal Tuesday that would allow Israeli-Egyptian products duty-free access to the US market, a further step toward launching a broader free trade pact in the Middle East.
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Vietnam becomes Cuba's latest partner in oil exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico under one of several agreements signed Friday during a visit by Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh.
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The US signs a multi-billion dollar trade deal with Colombia aimed at lowering the countries' trade barriers.
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Food producers and government sign an agreement to freeze prices for a range of basic foodstuffs.
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Two years ago in December, fewer than 30 U.S. business representatives came to Havana to sign agreements with Cuban officials to export food to the Caribbean island. This week, Cuba expects more than 340 people &#151; primarily producers of American farm goods &#151; to attend the latest round of talks, in which communist officials hope to sign deals worth about &#36;100 million.
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The US dollar, after a decade as the dominant currency for buying everything from shampoo to canned food to furniture, is no longer accepted in Cuba as of yesterday.