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13-Nov-2010 Kyodo
Kan asked to attend Pacific FTA summit on Sunday as APEC chair
In the TPP summit, the leaders are expected to formally welcome Malaysia as the group’s latest member, according to sources close to the negotiating countries. -
13-Nov-2010 Bernama
Malaysia signs FTA with Chile, its first with Latin America
Malaysia and Chile signed the Malaysia-Chile Free Trade Agreement (MCFTA) today, marking Malaysia’s first bilateral FTA with a Latin American country. -
12-Nov-2010 AFP
Japan, Mongolia to launch talks on free trade, rare earths
Japan and Mongolia are expected to agree on starting talks on a bilateral free-trade deal next week that would include a stable supply of rare earth minerals, a government official said Friday. -
12-Nov-2010 NZ Herald
Key sets Japan straight on free trade rationale
If agriculture was off the Trans-Pacific Partnership table as far as Japan was concerned, then New Zealand did not want to see Japan around the TPP negotiating table. "It’s as simple as that." -
12-Nov-2010 Montreal Gazette
Harper announces opening of free-trade agreement talks with India
The prime ministers of Canada and India, both attending the G20 summit in South Korea, announced on Friday the two countries have begun free trade talks. -
12-Nov-2010 NYT
Japan’s farmers oppose Pacific free-trade talks
Atsushi Kono considers it the gravest threat to his family’s farm in a century of rice-growing: a free-trade initiative that could dismantle Japan’s sky-high protective farming tariffs, finally opening up the country to cheap, foreign produce. -
12-Nov-2010 IRIN
Afrique : L’accord UE-Inde pourrait menacer l’accès à des médicaments VIH essentiels
Alors que des responsables indiens et européens se rencontrent à Bruxelles pour mettre au point les détails d’un accord de libre-échange, des activistes de la société civile s’inquiètent que l’accord puisse déboucher sur une protection renforcée de la propriété intellectuelle qui pourrait réduire l’accès aux médicaments génériques indiens bon marché. -
11-Nov-2010 Bloomberg
Obama, Lee fail to sign FTA, talks to resume after G-20 summit
President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak failed to reach agreement on a free-trade accord and said talks will continue after the Group of 20 summit in Seoul. -
11-Nov-2010 Kyodo
Japan to propose starting FTA talks with EU in spring
Japan plans to propose to the European Union starting talks on a free trade agreement next spring, government sources said Thursday. -
11-Nov-2010 ICTSD
EU to focus on bilateral deals, Doha, and beyond
The European Commission on Tuesday set out a blueprint for an EU trade strategy that would help boost growth and job creation in Europe. -
11-Nov-2010 FE
Indo-US investment treaty first step towards FTA
Interview with US-India Business Council president Ron Somers -
10-Nov-2010 MSF
MSF protest over EU India trade talks
MSF staff and supporters rally outside the offices of the European Commission to deliver an open letter of protest against ongoing trade talks between the European Union and India that could damage access to affordable medicines.
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10-Nov-2010 Dong-a Ilbo
FTA talks jolted by US demand on beef imports
Korea and the US were expected to announce Thursday a compromise on contentious issues in their free trade agreement, but an unexpected twist appeared in the negotiations. -
10-Nov-2010 Andina
Peru, Central America hold first round of FTA negotiations
The first round of FTA negotiations between Peru and Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Panama) takes place this week in Lima. -
10-Nov-2010 Bloomberg
US beef exporters urge speed, not changes, in South Korean trade accord
American beef exporters are pushing the Obama administration and Congress to approve a pending trade agreement with South Korea without delay rather than hold out for concessions on their behalf. -
10-Nov-2010 Reuters
Japan farmers protest free trade as APEC meets
Thousands of Japanese farmers rallied on Wednesday to demand their government steer clear of a US-led free trade initiative which would open the heavily protected agricultural sector to fierce competition. -
10-Nov-2010 CNN
Thousands in Japan protest new free trade agreement
An estimated 3,000 Japanese farmers converged in Tokyo on Wednesday to protest against Japan joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, which would destroy Japanese agriculture and community -
10-Nov-2010 Yonhap
S. Korea reaffirms beef issue not on table in FTA talks
South Korea will risk indefinitely delaying the conclusion of a free trade agreement with the United States if Washington insists on an "unacceptable" demand that Seoul opens its market wider to US beef, a senior government official said Wednesday. -
10-Nov-2010 Kyodo
Farmers fear economic fallout from Pacific FTA
Japanese farmers voiced concerns Tuesday about the day’s decision by the Cabinet to begin consultations with the United States and other countries to forge a trans-Pacific free-trade agreement, saying further liberalization of trade would deal them a heavy blow. -
9-Nov-2010 DFP
Chrysler joins Ford against Korean pact
Chrysler today voiced its opposition – along with Ford – to passage of a free trade agreement between the US and Korea as written in 2007.