28-Jun-2010
Voice of Russia
Russia is going to draft an agreement before the end of the year on a CIS free trade area involving at first Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, says the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
14-May-2009
American Chronicle
US Senator Bob Casey, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Dick Lugar sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke calling for the finalizing of a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Russia to encourage US business deals and investments in Russia.
30-Apr-2009
Business Standard
India and Russia, two of the four most important emerging economies in the world, will not be able to enter into a free trade agreement for expanding their trade ties unless Moscow becomes a member of the World Trade Organisation.
10-Dec-2008
Joong Ang Ilbo
Korea wants to offset the expected slowdown in growth next year by expanding free trade pacts with Russia and South America’s Mercosur members, a government official said yesterday.
27-Sep-2008
Georgian Daily
Georgian Minister of Economic Development Ekaterina Sharashidze said last week that the US and Georgia will explore the possibility of a bilateral free trade agreement during a US delegation’s visit to Georgia this month.
13-Feb-2008
Times of India
India finds itself increasingly on the defensive in agricultural trade for permitting field trials across the country in a host of genetically modified food crops — rice, brinjal, okra, potato, tomato and groundnuts — and thereby exposing conventional crops to the risk of transgenic contamination. A case in point is a rather dodgy no-contamination certificate that the regulator, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, was forced to give two months ago in response to a restriction imposed by Russia on import of rice, groundnuts and sesame seeds from India.
