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Preferring RCEP to TPP? S. Korean government putting RCEP before TPP
15-Nov-2017 Business Korea
The South Korean government is showing signs of putting the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership before the Trans-Pacific Partnership in free trade agreement strategy management.
Chinese premier calls for advancing China-Japan-South Korea FTA negotiations
15-Nov-2017 Xinhua
China-Japan-South Korea FTA negotiations were launched in November 2012, with the 12th round of the negotiations being held in Tokyo in April 2017.
US business groups ask trade agency to keep trucking rules in NAFTA
15-Nov-2017 Reuters
More than 100 US-based retailers, agriculture groups and transportation councils urged the government’s trade agency to preserve trucking provisions in any new version of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Trump’s trade barbs push Asian nations closer to China’s orbit
15-Nov-2017 Bloomberg
Trump declared his 11-day swing through Asia a success before heading home, saying that “all countries dealing with us on trade know that the rules have changed.”
Maple Brexit? EU eyes Canada model for UK trade
15-Nov-2017 Reuters
The European Union is sizing up Britain for a post-Brexit free trade deal along the lines of one it agreed last year with Canada.
Trial in Rs 22,100 crore Vodafone tax dispute in February
15-Nov-2017 Bloomberg
An international arbitration tribunal in February will begin trial on Vodafone’s challenge to India using a retrospective legislation to seek Rs 22,100 crore in taxes.
‘India-Canada foreign investment protection pact is ready to be signed’
15-Nov-2017 The Hindu
Canadian International Trade Minister bullish on growing trade ties with New Delhi.
Nafta talks resume as US warns ’short fuse’ risks burning down
15-Nov-2017 Bloomberg
It’s back to the table time for Nafta negotiators after a month long breather in the talks, which broke up last time amid stark differences between the countries.
Canada takes softwood lumber dispute with US to NAFTA appeal panel
15-Nov-2017 Bay Today
Canada is turning to the North American Free Trade Agreement in its bid to stop US duties on Canadian softwood lumber.
Ottawa files lawsuit in dispute over broken northern Manitoba rail line
15-Nov-2017 National Post
Ottawa filed a lawsuit against the owners of a broken rail line in northern Manitoba hours after the company said it would file a complaint against the federal government under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Britain faces ‘TTIP on steroids’ as US trade talks begin, campaigners warn
14-Nov-2017 Common Dreams
Campaign group Global Justice Now has warned there are just months to stop ‘TTIP on steroids’ as the latest round of trade talks between the United States and United Kingdom governments begins in London.
Mercosur and Mexico trade agreements: The quest for a sugar fix
14-Nov-2017 EurActiv
There is intensive lobbying by European sugar beet growers against the prospect of widening of EU quotas for non-EU cane sugar as part of ongoing bilateral free trade negotiations.
EU, Chile to start talks to update free trade deal
14-Nov-2017 Reuters
The EU and Chile signed a deal on political and economic cooperation in 2002, but have decided it needs updating to increase work together on issues including climate change, education policy and trade.
Trump open to US-PH free trade deal
14-Nov-2017 Manila Times
The United States will consider a possible free trade agreement with the Philippines, a Cabinet official said.
China, New Zealand eye closer trade ties
14-Nov-2017 Ecns
China stands ready to work with New Zealand to advance their talks on upgrading a bilateral free trade agreement, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said.
Trade agreements: Freer rein for corporations
14-Nov-2017 Ojarasca
NAFTA forms a part of this politico-legal apparatus of domination. Human rights and corporate rights share no common ground; there has been a thorough overturning of the hierarchy, the normative pyramid, of the human rights protection system.
Abe, Trump seek Indian-Pacific strategy to counter China
14-Nov-2017 Asahi
Japan and the United States are sailing toward a joint strategy focused on the Indian-Pacific region as one way of containing the maritime advances being made by China into the East China Sea and South China Sea.
Headway in services deal unlikely at RCEP summit
13-Nov-2017 Live Mint
Countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are against India’s push for liberalisation in services sectors.
European businesses call for FTA revisions
13-Nov-2017 Korea Times
European business leaders in Korea have urged the Korean government to begin talks on amendments to the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, citing overall changes in various industries since the deal first took effect in July 2011.
ASEAN signs FTA, investment deal with HKC
13-Nov-2017 Manila Bulletin
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Hong Kong, China signed free trade and investment agreements, the sixth economic deal entered into by the 10-member countries.