http://www.bilaterals.org/ en SPIP - www.spip.net http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16767 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16767 2010-02-09 12:51:27 text/html en [] India <p>As much as 60-70 per cent of India's global trade would be free from duty barriers or attract lesser levies in the coming two-three years, a Commerce Minister official said today.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16766 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16766 2010-02-09 12:07:44 text/html en [] India Canada investment <p>Canada High Commissioner in India Mr Joseph Caron said his country is pressing for entering into a foreign investment protection treaty with ours.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16765 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16765 2010-02-09 11:55:09 text/html en [] EPAs EU Kenya EAC <p>Kenya is considering breaking ranks with its East Africa partners and sign a framework on new economic trade pacts with Europe, citing its disadvantaged position should it fail to do so.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16764 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16764 2010-02-09 11:45:17 text/html en [] China Costa Rica <p>China and Costa Rica held their sixth round of talks on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) here on Monday.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16762 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16762 2010-02-09 03:17:28 text/html en [] Philippines EU <p>Negotiators of the Partnership Cooperation Agreement, who met for a fourth time last week, had nothing to report about the controversial matter of human rights</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16761 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16761 2010-02-09 03:06:09 text/html en [] China Costa Rica <p>Costa Rica said on Monday it was on the verge of reaching a free trade deal with China as the Central American nation and the fast-growing Asian economy held talks.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16756 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16756 2010-02-08 20:01:03 text/html en [] <p>In 2005, the North American Forum on Integration organized the Triumvirate, a North American model parliament which meets once a year. The exercise brings together university students from the U.S., Mexico and Canada with participants assigned the roles of legislators, journalists or lobbyists. Over the years, the mock parliament has debated and drafted resolutions on such key issues as trade corridors, immigration, NAFTA's Chapter 11, along with the creation of a North American investment fund and a customs union.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16754 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16754 2010-02-08 02:28:54 text/html en [] China ASEAN <p>If they dominate the 1.9 billion-population China-ASEAN FTA, Chinese companies could build a platform from which to attack European and North American markets.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16753 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16753 2010-02-08 02:19:02 text/html en [] Malaysia P4➔P7 <p>Malaysia is not attending the TPP's first meeting in Australia next month.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16751 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16751 2010-02-08 02:04:36 text/html en [] Kenya EAC <p>Kenya is considering breaking ranks with its East Africa partners and sign a framework on new economic trade pacts with Europe, citing its disadvantaged position should it fail to do so.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16750 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16750 2010-02-08 01:32:29 text/html en [] US New Zealand P4➔P7 <p>New Zealand journalist Gordon Campbell on why free trade with the US is more Monty Python than Holy Grail</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16749 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16749 2010-02-07 15:58:20 text/html en [] US Korea corporate interests <p>A major South Korean business lobby said Sunday it has convened a meeting in Los Angeles with U.S. business leaders to push for the prompt ratification of a Seoul-Washington free trade deal.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16748 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16748 2010-02-07 00:12:36 text/html en [] EU Switzerland agriculture | farmers | food <p>Si la Suisse signe les accords de libre-échange agricole avec l'Union européenne, les cultures de céréales panifiables pourraient disparaître du pays en quatre ans. En 2016, il ne serait donc théoriquement plus possible de manger du pain à base de farine suisse.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16747 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16747 2010-02-06 08:35:50 text/html en [] Ecuador investment investor-state disputes <p>The Ecuadorian government said Occidental Petroleum deserves no compensation for the cancellation of its massive oil concession in the Amazon region, arguing that the decision was taken after the U.S. company broke the law and its contractual obligations by handing over a stake in that project to a Canadian firm.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16746 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16746 2010-02-06 07:16:48 text/html en [] US EU Canada <p>A Canada-US deal on 'Buy American' trade restrictions opens the door for more sweeping liberalization of provincial and territorial procurement policies, including momentum for a proposed trade deal with the European Union. Union and anti-free-trade groups have slammed the deal.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16739 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16739 2010-02-05 06:05:46 text/html en [] EU EAC <p>The European Union has accused East Africa Community partner states of flouting World Trade Organisation rules by refusing to sign a framework Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16738 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16738 2010-02-05 05:55:00 text/html en [] India EU <p>Talks on a free trade agreement between the European Union and India are stuck on the issue of additional market access after the eighth round of negotiations in New Delhi late last month.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16737 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16737 2010-02-05 05:46:55 text/html en [] China US corporate interests P4➔P7 <p>The National Pork Producers Council is focusing most of its trade agreement lobbying efforts on re-establishing markets in China and Russia, says the council's Nick Giordano.</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16736 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16736 2010-02-05 05:24:49 text/html en [] Japan Taiwan <p>Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou on Thursday expressed his wish to strike a free trade agreement with Japan</p> http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16735 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16735 2010-02-05 04:39:12 text/html en [] India New Zealand corporate interests <p>"You're talking about a billion people that we largely don't export anything to now," Meat and Wool New Zealand chairman Mike Petersen said</p>