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Group hits US attempt to push bilateral trade pact with RP

By Rocel Felix | June 16, 2006 - 12:00am

A civil society group is claiming the United States (US) is dangling bilateral trade deals in a bid to weaken the position of the Philippine government in the ongoing negotiations of the World Trade Organizatons...

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