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  • 3-Apr-2009
    Region Cautious on Free Trade with Canada
    Two years ago, newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged his country’s neglect of the Caribbean in recent years.
  • 3-Apr-2009
    EU, Korea failed to finalize trade pact in London
    South Korea and the European Union failed on Thursday to finalize a free trade deal, South Korean officials here said, adding they would seek a way to conclude the deal. South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon and his EU counterpart Catherine Ashton met here to narrow differences on some remaining sticky issues, including a so-called duty drawback scheme and rules of origin, but failed to wrap up the agreement.
  • 3-Apr-2009
    Deadly pact
    Opposition is growing over a controversial bilateral trade agreement Canada signed with Colombia in November, the largest trade accord in the Americas after NAFTA.
  • 3-Apr-2009
    Reveal contents of RP-EU Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, urges militant group Pamalakaya
    Militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is urging the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to divulge the content of the RP-European Union Partnership and Cooperation Agreement or (PCA).
  • 3-Apr-2009
    Our FTA with South-East Asia labelled ’mediocre’
    Australia’s biggest ever free trade agreement has been branded as mediocre by one of the first detailed reviews of the deal.
  • 3-Apr-2009 PACNEWS
    Why a free trade agreement with our big brothers could hurt us
    Article explaining possible negative implications (for the Pacific Island Countries) of a free trade agreement with Australia and NZ...
  • 2-Apr-2009
    Legal Issues and Objections to the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA
    Survey of Legal Issues and Objections to AANZFTA from the Perspective of a Philippine N.G.O.
  • 1-Apr-2009
    Pacific lessons from the Economic Partnership Agreement
    A trade deal between the world’s largest economic region, the European Union - and the world’s smallest - the Pacific - was never going to be easy.
  • 31-Mar-2009
    Australia looks to FTA to open China to investment
    Access to direct investments in China has become a bigger priority for Australia as it negotiates a Free Trade Agreement, Trade Minister Simon Crean told reporters on Tuesday.
  • 31-Mar-2009
    NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal
    The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is appealing to the federal Liberal Party to join with other opposition parties to block the new Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
  • 31-Mar-2009
    ECFA separate from any similar U.S. plan, says AIT
    A potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Taiwan would have no direct link to Taiwan’s proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China, according to a senior U.S. official in Taipei.
  • 31-Mar-2009
    West Africa: Don’t Conclude Regional EPA in June 2009 -Gapto
    Members of the Ghana Agricultural Producers and Traders Organisation (GAPTO) have called on the governments of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) not to conclude the Regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with European Union (EU) in June, this year.
  • 31-Mar-2009
    KOR-US FTA’s three poisons
    Why is the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) an issue again? The administration of President Lee Myung-bak is trying to use the global economic crisis to force its market fundamentalism on the country. The FTA is the final push.
  • 30-Mar-2009
    Minister defends Colombia free-trade deal
    Parliamentary hearings will give a fulsome airing to critics of Canada’s proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia, says the Harper government’s Latin American cabinet minister, Peter Kent, the minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
  • 30-Mar-2009 Traidcraft
    G20 should halt free trade agreements
    In a report released today, Traidcraft shows that the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) under negotiation, would strip away essential policy tools that India needs to support its economy and safeguard jobs — when European governments are doing all they can to rescue their own economies during these exceptional times.
  • 29-Mar-2009
    5 years of free trade with Korea
    On Wednesday, Korea and Chile will be celebrating the 5th anniversary since they signed the free trade agreement.
  • 29-Mar-2009
    Zero duty for Lankan goods in Pakistan
    The Department of Commerce said this week that under the Sri Lanka-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Pakistan has confirmed duty free status to 4,500 Sri Lankan products.
  • 28-Mar-2009 Eyes on Trade
    Panama-AIG outrage on all fronts
    Anger is brimming over in diverse corridors over the Bush hangover agreement with Panama, and the new rights it would give to AIG-linked bodies in Panama to sue US taxpayers.
  • 27-Mar-2009 Kairos
    KAIROS and Colombian Partners Outraged at Canada-Colombia Free Trade Deal
    Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives today expressed outrage that the federal government has introduced legislation for a free trade deal with Colombia, ignoring the pleas of Canadian and Colombian activists for a human rights assessment in advance of any deal.
  • 27-Mar-2009 Xinhua
    Peru refuses price raise on medicines at FTA negotiation with EU
    The Peruvian Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry said Thursday that Peru will not accept raise in medicine prices in the second round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union..