28-Feb-2017
Business Korea
Three rounds of negotiations for the South Korea-GCC FTA were underway in 2007 to 2009 but the talks came to a halt when the GCC withdrew from the negotiating table in the wake of the global financial crisis at that time.
27-Feb-2017
Sunday Guardian Live
There is no principled basis for EU’s demand of extending patent protection beyond the period of 20 years.
26-Feb-2017
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The recent death of the TPP has thrust RCEP further into the spotlight, and raised the stakes both for its sixteen prospective parties, and for lobbyists with designs to stamp their own mark on the text’s intellectual property and e-commerce chapters.
24-Feb-2017
International Business Times
Sealing a free trade between the two countries is reportedly the main agenda of Widodo’s visit to Australia.
24-Feb-2017
Canadian Wheat Board Alliance
The approval by the European Union of CETA makes the world safer for the global agricultural cartels and much less pleasant for Canadian farmers and the consumers in both jurisdictions.
24-Feb-2017
Economic & Political Weekly
With other mega regional trade agreements like the Trans–Pacific Partnership in uncertainty, trade treaties like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will acquire greater significance beyond their original ASEAN-centred grouping. The RCEP needs to be tracked for its implications for both the global trading system and the livelihoods of people.
