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Canada-U.S. Deep Integration Agenda Continues Unabated
29-Mar-2011 Be Your Own Leader
Negotiations on a Canada-U.S. trade and security agreement have sparked privacy concerns, along with fears that sovereignty could be sacrificed.
ECFA benefiting wealthy: report
29-Mar-2011 Taipei Times
People who possess large amounts of capital appeared to reap benefits from the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), while those on the lower end of the economic scale absorbed the costs, a recently released report on the cross-strait China-Taiwan trade pact signed in June last year suggested.
Govt to delay decisions on TPP, social security, taxes: Kan
29-Mar-2011 Nikkei
The Japanese government will postpone beyond the initial June deadline making final decisions on whether to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks and push through social security and tax reforms, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday morning.
Trade agreement with SA Customs Union faces regulatory hurdles
29-Mar-2011 Business Standard
The Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between India and South Africa Customs Union (SACU) has run into some regulatory issues even as both countries have vowed to achieve bilateral trade worth $15 billion by 2014 from around $10 billion at present.
Korea-EU FTA stuck in faulty translation loop
29-Mar-2011 Chosun Ilbo
The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade admitted that the second translation of the Korea-EU FTA contained a considerable number of fresh errors and agreed to submit a corrected version again.
Doha failure could spark regionalism
28-Mar-2011 Times Live
South Africa is considering bilateral trade agreements with Japan, Turkey and New Zealand, but a preferential trade agreement with India, currently under negotiation, is enjoying priority, said Brendan Vickers, a chief director at the department of trade and industry.
Officials push for progress in Asia-Pacific deal
28-Mar-2011 Business Day
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is being negotiated behind closed doors in Singapore this week between nine countries, including the US, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore.
Colombia and Peru closer to implementing the free trade agreement with the EU
28-Mar-2011 MercoPress
Negotiators from the European Union, Colombia and Peru have signed the final texts on an association agreement with a free trade chapter designed to increase commerce between the Andean countries and the European bloc, it was reported Friday.
EU-India free trade deal delayed
28-Mar-2011 The Telegraph
The prospect of an imminent of India-European Union Free Trade Agreement has suffered a setback according to officials who said they now believe it may not be signed before the end of the year or early 2012.
AJE: Opposition to India-EU trade deal on drugs
27-Mar-2011 AJE
India is one of the world’s largest producers of generic drugs. But a proposed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union could curb the supply of affordable drugs to millions of people. Al Jazeera reports from New Delhi
Free trade pact with four European nations this year
27-Mar-2011 The Hindu
India and the Europe Free Trade Association (EFTA) are likely to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) entailing a comprehensive bilateral trade and investment agreement by this year after fast tracking of the negotiations between the two groups.
EU-Colombia-Peru FTA (2011)
27-Mar-2011 EC
As initialled in Brussels on 24 March 2011
Negotiators initial trade agreement between the EU, Colombia and Peru.
27-Mar-2011 EC
The initialling will be followed by the process of translation, signature and adoption of this agreement so that it can enter into force as soon as possible for all parties.
Southern Africa Customs Union agrees to jointly negotiate trade agreements
27-Mar-2011 Bloomberg
The Southern African Customs Union has finally agreed on a set of principles to negotiate all future trade agreements, including deals with India and Mercosur, collectively
Kan may put free-trade talks on hold after quake in setback for Obama goal
25-Mar-2011 Bloomberg
“Corporate Japan is really pushing, as they know Japan’s failure to enter the TPP would be a further step towards second- or third rate nationhood on the global stage,” said Jesper Koll, head of equity research at JPMorgan & Co. in Tokyo.
David Cameron wants Japan EU trade deal
25-Mar-2011 BBC
The European Union should offer Japan a free trade deal to help it recover from the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
Secrecy, spin and cheap labour ’trade’ deals
24-Mar-2011 Corporate Watch
The EU Trade Commission has confirmed that the EU-India free trade agreement is essentially a UK agreement, under the auspices of the EU.
Obama’s final stopover: Ignoring CAFTA protests
24-Mar-2011 COHA
Local activists protesting Obama’s visit to El Salvador called for a renegotiation of CAFTA, an end to the US embargo against Cuba, a withdrawal of the US military from El Salvador, and a cessation of US support for the tainted Porfirio Lobos regime in neighboring Honduras.
$130 million NAFTA payout sets troubling precedent
23-Mar-2011 CCPA
Why should a provincial government be punished for doing the right thing?
UN Special Raporteur on right to health asked to intervene in TPP Trade negotiation
22-Mar-2011 KEI
Eleven public interest advocacy groups and three law professors have submitted a petition to Anand Grover, the Special Rapporteur for the United Nations on the right to health, to intervene in a new regional trade agreement that will shrink the market for legal generic medecines.