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11-Aug-2009
MCOT News
Economic ministers from the 10 Southeast Asian countries will sign the Asean-China Investment Agreement during the 41st Asean Economic Ministers this week, but the long-delayed free trade pact with India is likely to be postponed again.
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11-Aug-2009
Asia Times
"If this FTA goes through, pepper may cease to be produced in Kerala, the land where it originated," says Thomas Verghese, a distinguished agricultural scientist and chairman of the Kerala State Prices Board
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10-Aug-2009
Xinhua
At least 300 people on Sunday demonstrated against the Fifth North American Leaders’ Summit, being held in Guadalajara, capital of western Mexico state Jalisco.
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10-Aug-2009
DNAIndia
Leaders from Kerala have vociferously opposed the Asean free trade agreement that could impact its farmers in future. The same cannot be said about many coffee growers who have little political muscle. Karnataka produces 70% of coffee in India.
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10-Aug-2009
Taipei Times
Taiwan’s former vice president said that the KMT and CCP are plotting a “3-3-3” scheme that includes an ECFA, confidence-building and a peace treaty by 2011
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10-Aug-2009
Korea Times
India should be used as a beachhead for Korea in an effort to provide a deeper penetration for its goods going into Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the Samsung Economic Research Institute argues.
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8-Aug-2009
CCIC
Canadian Council for International Cooperation | June 2009
KEY BENCHMARKS FOR A HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR THE CANADA-COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (CCFTA)
“An independent, impartial, and comprehensive human rights impact assessment should be carried out by a competent body, which is subject to levels of independent scrutiny and validation; the recommendations of this assessment should be addressed before Canada considers signing, ratifying and implementing an agreement with (...)
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7-Aug-2009
Straight.com
Common Frontiers, a network of church, labour, environmental, and civil society groups, and the Réseau québcois sur l’Intégration continentale have sent the following open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper ahead of his summit next week with U.S president Barack Obama and Mexican president Felipe Calderón in Guadalajara, Mexico:
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7-Aug-2009
PTI News
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the US and Mauritius will begin negotiations for a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) to strengthen investor protections and encourage the continuation of market-oriented economic reforms in the African nation.
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7-Aug-2009
NBR
An agreement was reached to progress Pacer Plus, the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations, and to keep Fiji informed but not formally involved in the process.
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7-Aug-2009
AFP
Australia and New Zealand Friday denied bullying Pacific Island nations into starting negotiations for a controversial regional free trade deal.
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7-Aug-2009
AFP
South Korea and India Friday signed a pact to scrap or reduce most trade tariffs over the next decade, giving Seoul a head start over its rivals in a market of 1.1 billion people.
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7-Aug-2009
Japan Times
The Democratic Party of Japan plans to revise its proposal for a free-trade agreement with the United States, apparently due to concern over a potential backlash from farmers, top DPJ official Naoto Kan said.
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6-Aug-2009
ICTSD
Exiting ICSID and joining ALBA and UNASUR,along with the customs restrictions it applied on its CAN neighbours, are the recent measures that have been taken by the government of Ecuador to demonstrate that there is an alternative trade policy.
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6-Aug-2009
The negotiation of a free trade agreement between MERCOSUR and the UE has
become, for Brazil, a greater priority than the trade liberalization
debates at the World Trade Organization (WTO)
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5-Aug-2009
Reuters
Britain supports signing an economic pact between Syria and the European Union despite its concerns about human rights violations by Damascus, a British official said Tuesday.
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5-Aug-2009
Fiji Times
Fiji is on the verge of signing off on an economic partnership agreement with the European Union. But one of the main beneficiaries of the agreement —our fisheries sector— cannot enjoy any of the duty-free, quota-free access because it does not meet stringent EU rules and regulations.
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5-Aug-2009
AFP
Opponents say island countries’ local industries would be destroyed by cheaper imports and govts would lose much of their revenue if tariffs and duties were lifted on Aussie, NZ goods
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4-Aug-2009
The News
In a new development, Pakistan has decided to reinitiate the stalled process of technical dialogue with the US authorities to finalise the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) by December this year, The News has learnt.
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4-Aug-2009
Taipei Times
The administration of President Ma Ying-jeou should ask Beijing to sign a free trade agreement under the framework of the WTO, rather than seeking to ink an economic cooperation framework agreement under the “one China” principle, participants at an economic forum said yesterday.
