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India needs a better deal from trade pacts
7-Mar-2013 Business Standard
If India is not deriving much benefit from its bilateral and regional trade deals, why is so much negotiating capital, which is limited, being invested on these?
Merkel, Yudhoyono call for free trade agreement
6-Mar-2013 DW
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a free-trade agreement between the European Union and Indonesia. This, she said, could be a first step towards a wider trade agreement.
Ambitious EU-Philippines FTA could erode people’s rights and undermine development
6-Mar-2013
In the wake of recent pronouncements from the Philippine government of its proposal to begin bilateral free trade negotiations with the European Union this month, the EU-ASEAN FTA network expresses its serious concern that the proposed agreement would be too ambitious for the Philippines, erode people’s rights and undermine development.
EU-Thailand FTA negotiations: What fate for access to medicines?
6-Mar-2013
Health Action International Europe, Oxfam and Action against AIDS Germany have serious concerns over the repercussions the EU-Thailand FTA will have on access to medicines in Thailand and the region.
As clock ticks toward Trans-Pacific trade pact deadline, US must end stall tactics on access to medicines
5-Mar-2013 MSF
As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières calls on the US government to end its stall tactics and revise its proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries.
A Japan–EU free trade deal?
5-Mar-2013 The Diplomat
Amid talk of a super, transatlantic free trade zone, the eurozone now has a new potential partner: Japan. But, in light of Tokyo’s slow progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), can the Abe government match competitor South Korea in inking a trade pact with Brussels?
Local firms reel under free trade deals
4-Mar-2013 Jakarta Post
Indonesian firms cannot compete with lower prices offered by foreign rivals in their home market.
Thai civic groups warn against pact with EU
4-Mar-2013 Bangkok Post
About 1,500 members of the groups under the umbrella network of FTA Watch gathered outside Government House yesterday to voice their concerns.
EU-Morocco: Barroso launches talks for free trade agreement
3-Mar-2013 ANSAmed
European Commission president José Manuel Barroso was in Rabat on Friday to launch talks for an EU-Morocco free trade agreement. The decision may end up as a major headache for Brussels, however, as the issue of relations with Morocco is a highly sensitive one within some Member States and the European Parliament itself, where the rights of the Saharawi people of the Western Sahara are defended.
Canada worries about US-EU free trade
2-Mar-2013 BBC
Some experts in Ottawa think that the launch of EU-US trade negotiations could derail the EU-Canada talks
Australian-US alliance a factor in Chinese investment decisions
1-Mar-2013 ABC
The growing size and value of China’s investments in Australia makes the case for a bilateral investment treaty increasingly urgent, according to a leading China expert.
EU trade talks offer poor deal
1-Mar-2013 Bangkok Post
Should we trade poor people’s lives with trade benefits for agro-industry corporations? This question has been posed by civic groups to the Yingluck Shinawatra government concerning the FTA negotiations between Thailand and the EU. It is not the only question that needs to be answered, however.
Panama and Colombia to restart FTA talks
1-Mar-2013 Newsroom Panama
Panama and Colombia are about to restart talks on a free trade agreement From March 11-15 the sixth round of negotiations will take place In Medellin, Colombia.
Civil society campaign kick-off to scrutinize the Thailand-EU FTA negotiation
28-Feb-2013 FTA Watch
Civil society groups based in Thailand kick off their campaign to monitor the EU-Thailand FTA negotiations
Thai, the Philippines keen to join TPP talks
28-Feb-2013 Bernama
Thailand and the Philippines are among countries that have recently expressed an interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) bandwagon with the other 11 stakeholders. US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez said the matter had been the subject of further discussion on his recent visit to both countries.
US-Europe free trade pact won’t affect TPP: US
28-Feb-2013 AFP
A proposed US-Europe free-trade pact is unlikely to affect Washington’s efforts to negotiate a similar agreement with Asia-Pacific nations, a senior US trade official said Thursday.
Costa Rican lawmakers approve free trade agreement with Mexico
28-Feb-2013 Tico Times
Costa Rica already had a free trade agreement with Mexico, in force since January 1995, which now is unified with the rest of Central American countries.
EU confirms Peru FTA comes into force March 1
28-Feb-2013 Andina
The European Union has confirmed that its free trade agreement with Peru will be provisionally applied starting on March 1, 2013.
¿Alianza o desacuerdo del Pacífico?
27-Feb-2013
La propuesta de liberalización de la Alianza del Pacífico no genera nuevas oportunidades comerciales para Colombia.
West Africa warned not to approach trade negotiations with EU blindly
27-Feb-2013 World Stage
A senior official of Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has warned West Africa sub-region against entering into trade agreement with the European Union blindly.