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14-Mar-2013
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UK agri firms aim to cash in on EU-ASEAN FTA
14-Mar-2013 The Nation
British enterprises, particularly from the agriculture and agri-technology sectors, are expected to take advantage of the upcoming free-trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Thailand.
Relaunch of bilaterals.org
14-Mar-2013
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: an interview with Judit Rius, Médecins Sans Frontières
12-Mar-2013 New Medical
The TPP negotiators are making decisions that will affect at least 600 million people, and potentially hundreds of millions more, in complete secrecy, and this is unacceptable.
India: Insurance bill now holds the key to FTA with EU
12-Mar-2013 LiveMint
The much-delayed free trade agreement between India and the European Union may finally get through if the government is able to amend the law to allow greater foreign investment in Indian insurance firms.
Farmers rally in Tokyo against Japan’s entry into TPP talks
12-Mar-2013
Japan’s largest farm group rallied Tuesday in Tokyo to protest against the government’s entry into the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks.
Hokkaido farmers rally against Japan’s entry to TPP talks
12-Mar-2013 Jiji Press
Some 1,500 farmers in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido held a mass rally on Monday against the country joining Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations.
Call to speed up African Tripartite FTA negotiations
12-Mar-2013 Tax News
The Government of Zambia has called on the three African regional economic communities (RECs) — the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) — to speed up their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.
America will sign the TPP - John Key
11-Mar-2013 3News
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is confident America will sign one of the world’s largest free trade deals, because its economic hands are tied. “How on earth, if you’re Obama, do you actually stimulate the economy and get jobs? The only way through it for him is basically through exporting, and the fastest way to do that in volume is in Asia. That’s why we think Americans will actually do the deal,” he says.
Businesses want TPP to be concluded
11-Mar-2013 The Nation
Business representatives from around the Asia-Pacific region, gathered for the current 16th round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Singapore, urged negotiators to show flexibility and narrow the range of differences so that the talks can be brought to conclusion as soon as possible.
EU-India FTA - IP chapter (draft 2013)
11-Mar-2013 KEI
Indian negotiators under pressure to give in to European Commission demands
11-Mar-2013 DNP+
Civil society and PLHIV networks across the world need to support us in this unequal and conclusive battle against the unfair demands of the European Commission on IP enforcement and investment standards.
Ecuador plans legal challenge on foreign investment, oil
10-Mar-2013 AFP
Ecuador’s president on Saturday said he planned to challenge several bilateral investment treaties after the South American country was ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages by overseas courts.
Canadian meat producers don’t need CETA, aren’t filling existing export quotas: NFU
10-Mar-2013 rabble
Canadian beef exporters are using less than half of their tariff-free quota access to the European market and pork exporters come nowhere close to meeting their allowances, says the National Farmers Union this week. The data completely undermines the Harper government’s — and the meat sector — case for CETA, which appears to hinge on increased meat quotas for Canadian producers.
China plans study for free trade deal with Europe
8-Mar-2013 China Daily
China and the European Union could start investment talks in the coming months, the Chinese ambassador to the EU said. China has also submitted a proposal on launching a feasibility study on a free-trade agreement with the EU.
Europe’s carmakers look forward to US trade pact
8-Mar-2013 New York Times
Prospects for a trade pact have brightened the spirits of automakers along with many other types of Continental companies. And not only because it might make it easier for their products to compete in America’s giant consumer market.
Colombian trade coup a feather in Key’s sombrero
8-Mar-2013 NZ Herald
The smile on John Key’s face widened as broad as the sombrero that Juan Manuel Santos had just given him, when the Colombian President said, "We would love to have an FTA with New Zealand when they are ready to start negotiations."
Vietnam, EU look to conclude FTA negotiations
8-Mar-2013 VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung wants to speed up negotiations on the free trade agreement between Vietnam and the EU.
Colombia keen on free trade deal with NZ
7-Mar-2013 Radio New Zealand
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos says he would like to negotiate a free trade agreement with New Zealand.
Thai PM puts free trade agreement on the table with EU
7-Mar-2013 Financial Times
If concluded successfully, an FTA would kick in just as Thailand’s cushy preferential trade treatment under the EU’s generalised system of preferences expires in 2015.