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Spain to boost EU-L.America ties during its EU presidency
27-Dec-2009 Xinhua
Spain will seek close association agreements between the EU and Central America, boost trade agreements between the EU and Colombia and Peru and resume talks between the EU and the Common Market of the South, during Madrid’s rotating EU presidency in the first half of 2010
China, Norway start sixth round of FTA talks
16-Dec-2009 Global Times
Negotiators from China and Norway started in Oslo on Tuesday morning the sixth round of free trade area(FTA) talks, which will last till Thursday.
EU delays free-trade, accession pacts with Ukraine
7-Dec-2009 Bloomberg
The European Union will delay signing free-trade and accession accords with Ukraine because of growing skepticism about the former Soviet state’s commitment to economic and political restructuring.
Belgium urged to support efforts for Pak-EU FTA
7-Dec-2009 Pakistan Times
Belgium, being the Capital of Europe and centre of European politics and policy making, should support the efforts for signing free trade agreement between Pakistan and European Union, says the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Ukraine and Canada to launch talks on free trade zone agreement in 2010
30-Nov-2009 NRCU
The first round of talks will be held in February 2010.
Sino-Swiss free trade accord weighed up
30-Nov-2009 swissinfo
Switzerland and China have launched a feasibility study aimed at drawing up a free trade agreement between the two countries.
Nov. 19 Nl: Workshop on Global Europe and strategies on European Free Trade Agreements
5-Nov-2009
Activists from different countries with which the EU tries to sign (free) trade agreements will tel us about their campaigns.
Leuthard keeps to agriculture course
3-Nov-2009 swissinfo
Swiss Economics Minister Doris Leuthard is keeping to the policy of liberalising agriculture, and negotiating an FTA with the European Union, despite mounting criticisms and boot lobbing by angry farmers.
Pakistan: EU’s dilemma
17-Oct-2009 Dawn
Pakistan’s repeated requests for a free trade agreement come at the right time: the EU has switched focus from the uphill struggle to conclude the Doha trade round of World Trade Organisation negotiations to a quest for bilateral pacts.
Bosnia court annuls trade law as farmers protest
28-Sep-2009
Bosnia’s top court has annulled an import tax law which it said violated a regional free trade treaty and commitments to the EU, while about 1,000 farmers and food producers protested outside the court building.
Swiss firms eye Japanese free trade bounty
31-Aug-2009 swissinfo
Swiss companies are assessing how they could take advantage of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Japan that comes into effect on September 1.
Lord Mandelson accused of secretly lobbying for Libya during Lockerbie bomber talks
31-Aug-2009 The Telegraph
Informed sources say that, nearly a year after Lord Mandelson stepped down as European Trade Commissioner to return to the Cabinet, he has continued to push personally for a new and quick European Union (EU) trade deal with Libya.
Ukraine to sign bilateral agreement on free trade zone with European Free Trade Association
14-Aug-2009 NRCU
The deal with EFTA is likely to be signed by the end of this year. The free trade agreement with the EU could be concluded in 2010.
Ukraine intends to create free trade zone with Libya
22-Jul-2009 ForUm
Ukraine and Libya are interested in boosting bilateral goods turnover, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Secretary of the General People’s Committee of Libya al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi said at a meeting of the Ukraine-Libya Cooperation Commission in Kyiv on Monday.
Barbados and BLEU sign investment treaty
5-Jun-2009 Caribbean Net News
Barbados and the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU) now have a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).
Serbia, Turkey sign free trade agreement
2-Jun-2009 Servian Gvt
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic and Turkish Minister for Foreign Trade Zafer Caglayan today signed a free trade agreement between the two countries, which will be implemented from January 1, 2010.
CIS experts held talks on Free Trade Zone Agreement
19-May-2009 Armenian News
CIS member states are working in a draft Agreement on Free Trade Zone
Serbia, Iran to sign free trade agreement
6-Mar-2009 IHT
Serbia says it plans to sign a free trade agreement with Iran to boost economic cooperation.
EC fact-finding trip heralds first steps towards stronger trade relations with Armenia
17-Feb-2009
A European Commission’s experts team led by Director Ms Ewa Synowiec from Directorate General for Trade will carry out a fact-finding mission to Yerevan on 18-19 February. This mission will help in mapping out a preparatory process for possible future negotiations of an ambitious free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and Armenia.
China and Switzerland: investment protection signed, free trade under study
29-Jan-2009 GenevaLunch
Switzerland is the first country whose investors will receive a “higher level” of protection in China, under the terms of a bilateral agreement signed during a working visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.