Since the failure of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle to launch a new round of free trade talks last December, Europe's trade negotiators have been busy. Not so much with working to restore confidence in the multilateral trading regime, but with more pressing concerns, such as ensuring a trouble-free start of the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with South Africa, which took effect from January 1st, and negotiating another one with Mexico, which came into force on July 1st.
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