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Israel: A bitter harvest
22-Jul-2013 Financial Times
The EU, Israel’s biggest trading partner, is preparing EU-wide guidelines for the labelling of goods made at settlements as originating from Israeli-occupied Palestinian land. The measure would affect $300m of Israeli exports, according to a World Bank estimate.
European lawmakers urge suspension of agreement with Israel
19-Mar-2013 PNN
Palestinian official news agency WAFA reports that European parliamentarians wrote European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton last week calling on her to suspend the Association Agreement with Israel because of the latter’s violation of the terms of the agreement.
EU trade policy cannot ignore the Geneva conventions: the European Parliament must reject the ACAA protocol with Israel
22-Oct-2012 AITEC
Civil society statement calling fpr rejection of the Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products protocol attached to the European Union-Israel Association Agreement
Egypt still considering free-trade zone with Gaza: Hamas official
27-Sep-2012 Ahram
While Palestinian Authority claims Cairo has ’given up’ on proposal for Egypt-Gaza free-trade zone, deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau tells Ahram Online otherwise
Hamas appeals to Egypt over closure of smuggling tunnels
20-Sep-2012 Reuters
Egypt’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels along its border with the Gaza Strip is making shortages ever tighter. Hamas officials asked Egypt late on Monday to consider alternative trade routes, such as a free trade zone, a direct deal that could boost Hamas tax revenues and circumvent rival Fatah’s and Israel’s control of official imports to Gaza.
The European Parliament is rewarding Israel’s human rights violations
19-Sep-2012 Huffington Post
On 18 September 2012, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) passed the Protocol on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) by a slim margin.
InCACBI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement
24-Aug-2012 India Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI)
We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
Israel unhappy after EU blacklists 1980s town
15-Aug-2012 EU Observer
The European Commission on 3 August added three postal codes to a register of over 500 codes relating to "Israeli settlements located within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967"
Notice to importers: Imports from Israel into the EU
4-Aug-2012 EUR-Lex
Products produced in the Israeli settlements located within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967 are not entitled to benefit from preferential tariff treatment under the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
Palestinian youth reject EU hypocrisy in upgrading relations with Israel
31-Jul-2012 AIC
The Palestinian youth are tired of the EU’s hypocrisy and contemptuous policies that use aid and development programs to mask political cowardice and complicity in Israel’s crimes
EU fails to uphold international law with Israel
30-Jul-2012 PCHRO
As organizations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), we are strongly concerned about the EU’s lack of commitment to human rights in light of what is essentially an intensification of bilateral relations with Israel.
Ban on settlement goods wouldn’t break EU laws
11-Jul-2012 Middle East Monitor
A new report by Cambridge law professor James Crawford says that "there do not appear to be any EC laws which could be breached by a member state taking the decision to ban the import of settlement produce on public policy grounds."
EU bans Israeli settler products
22-Jun-2012 AFP
The global campaign to boycott companies involved in Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories is spreading, according to advocates of this form of "non-violent resistance."
South Africa: What’s in a label?
14-Jun-2012 Al Jazeera
South Africa’s recent demand that products originating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights remove the label "Made in Israel" is extremely significant - much more so than the European Union’s decision to deny these products preferential status and subject them to customs duty.
Goods from occupied lands should not be part of trade deal with Israel
21-May-2012
In late 2010, former trade minister Peter Van Loan announced that Canada and Israel would start exploratory talks to upgrade the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Earlier this year, the Ministry of International Trade finished public consultations and is now in internal discussions to implement the upgrades.
No Trade with Apartheid! Against the expansion of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement
17-Feb-2012 Tadamon!
Last fall, the Conservative government announced plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), a set of policies that serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism.
Contre l’expansion de l’accord de libre-échange Canada-Israël (Hiver 2012)
17-Feb-2012 Tadamon!
L’automne dernier, le gouvernement conservateur a annoncé qu’il planifiait l’expansion de l’Accord de libre-échange Canada-Israël (ALÉCI), un ensemble de procédures qui servent à légitimer davantage l’occupation et l’apartheid israélien, et renforce la participation de certaines compagnies ainsi que du gouvernement canadien a la politique de racisme et de colonialisme prôné par Israël.
PA, Mercosur sign free trade agreement
24-Dec-2011
The Palestinian Authority signed a free trade agreement with the Mercosur trade group Tuesday during the organizations’ presidential summit in Uruguay.
Mercosur eyes protectionist steps as trade war looms
20-Dec-2011 Dow Jones
Mercosur is expected to sign a free trade agreement with Palestine on the second day of the summit following a similar deal signed with Israel in 2007.
Palestinians to export direct to EU, avoiding Israel
27-Sep-2011 AFP
The European parliament Tuesday gave its green light to a deal enabling Palestinians to export farm and fish products directly to the European Union starting next year, without transit through Israel.