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Canada and Japan explore bilateral trade deal
15-Dec-2011 Reuters
Canada and Japan have agreed to decide soon whether to negotiate a bilateral economic partnership agreement, and Canada also aims to complete a free trade agreement with India by 2013, government officials said on Wednesday.
Study: Pact with EU to lead to poorer health services
15-Dec-2011
A study done by research group IBON showed that a free trade deal with the European Union (EU) will lead to poorer access to health services and more unaffordable medicines as well as undermine government revenues including public health spending.
Noda to prod ROK on FTAs
15-Dec-2011
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will likely urge South Korean President Lee Myung Bak to begin negotiations on a free trade agreement between the two countries plus China, when Lee visits Tokyo this weekend, top Democratic Party of Japan policymaker Seiji Maehara said Wednesday.
Partnership deal on track; bilateral trade pact next?
14-Dec-2011
The Philippines is not ready to commit to negotiations but is still “very serious” about pursing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union, seen as a major export market and investment partner.
Peru-Panama FTA to come into force in 1Q 2012
14-Dec-2011
Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Jose Luis Silva on Wednesday said that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed with Panama will come into effect in the first quarter of 2012 after being approved by the National Assembly of said Central American country on Tuesday.
Occupy Seoul activists rally against neoliberalism on day of action
14-Dec-2011 Socialist Worker Online
Occupy Seoul has helped to revitalise the campaign against the neoliberal Korea-US Free Trade Agreement
PJEPA review reset to January
14-Dec-2011 Manila Bulletin
Negotiations for the general review of the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, originally scheduled this month, have been moved to January next year.
MOIT: Russia considers FTA with Vietnam a breakthrough in Asean
14-Dec-2011 VietnamNet
Vietnam has agreed to kick off the negotiation for FTA with the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2012
Harper’s attempt to quietly sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union
14-Dec-2011 CKUT
An audio report from a protest against the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Quebec City
Turkey mulls suspension of free trade agreement with Syria
13-Dec-2011 Xinhua
Turkey’s Economy Ministry has drafted a decree on suspension of free trade agreement with Syria amid ongoing bilateral diplomatic friction, Turkish semi-official Anatolia news agency reported Friday.
Thousands of Koreans stage street protest against free trade deal with US
13-Dec-2011 Yonhap
Thousands of people rallied in downtown Seoul Saturday in protest of a free trade agreement (FTA) South Korea has signed with the United States, arguing that it unfairly favors Washington.
EU-Georgia free trade agreement takes step closer to reality
13-Dec-2011 The Messenger
The EU and Georgia have launched negotiations on a "deep and comprehensive" free trade agreement
The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter
12-Dec-2011 Be Your Own Leader
A North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control over the continent. Ultimately, the U.S. wants the final say on who is allowed to enter and who is allowed to leave.
New EU trade agreement: Right to food in India threatened
12-Dec-2011 Ecofair Trade Dialogue
MISEREOR, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Third World Network, Anthra and Glopolis decided to conduct their own civil society impact assessment of the proposed EU-India FTA with a focus on the right to food.
Conference on human rights and the EU-India free trade agreement
12-Dec-2011 Greens/EFA
VIdeo of a conference organised by the Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament on 8 December 2011
ACP Group and Brazil make ‘historic’ step towards closer South-South relations
9-Dec-2011 ACP
The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) and the Federative Republic of Brazil today signed a landmark agreement to build South-South solidarity through enhanced technical cooperation and dialogue between the two parties.
Global investment rules: Threat to democracy and the environment
9-Dec-2011 NJGI
Told through the voices of people working to battle the injustices of these rules from countries across the world, the video is a vibrant and visual way to help people understand what is at stake, for our rights, for the environment and for democracy.
EU-India FTA negotiations: DNP+ protest
9-Dec-2011
DNP+ believes that IP should be completely be removed from the trade negotiations.
Legal scholars release critical analysis of US proposals for IP and pharmaceutical chapters of the TPP
9-Dec-2011
The scholars’ analysis concludes that the "US proposals, if adopted, would upset the current international framework balancing the minimum standards for exclusive rights for media and technology owners, on the one hand, and the access rights of the public, competitors, innovators and creators, on the other."
Will the US push for non-labelling of GMOs in trade pact?
9-Dec-2011 TWN
Commentators are worried that the US may be pressuring countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - an Asia-Pacific-wide free trade pact - to abolish the labelling of GM foods, which it regards as a trade barrier.