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LDP ranks, like-minded lobbies rally against TPP
11-Feb-2013
About 120 members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party joined major lobby groups for a rally Thursday to oppose participation in the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, stepping up pressure on the Abe administration to maintain barriers on sensitive items in the farming, fishing and medical markets.
UAE and Poland to strengthen bilateral trade
11-Feb-2013
The UAE and Poland have agreed to undertake all possible measures to further promote bilateral trade and develop economic relations as the first meeting of the UAE-Poland Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation began in Warsaw on February 6.
Broad rules to govern Pak-India free trade urged
11-Feb-2013
Trade and industry in favour of free trade has pleaded with the government to ensure well-defined rules of engagement with Indian government and advised the bureaucracy to do its homework and examine trade factsheet before making any commitment one way or another.
Taiwan to use Mexico, Turkey as detours to trade with U.S., EU
11-Feb-2013
Taiwan will use Mexico and Turkey as gateways to stepping up trade with the United States and the European Union, so as to reduce the impact of the free trade agreements (FTAs) between South Korea and the two major economies, according to the country’s main trade promotion body.
Mercosur seeks Canada deal, but Cuba looms
11-Feb-2013
Mercosur is pushing a free trade deal with Canada which, if signed, will confront Ottawa with the ticklish issue of dealing with continued U.S. embargo on the regional pact’s future partner Cuba.
Women and Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement
11-Feb-2013 AFTINET
The Australian Fair Trade & Investment Network (AFTINET) presents a special seminar to mark the lead-up to International Women’s Day and the 16th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations being held in Singapore, on March 5, at 12.15 pm in the Waratah Room at NSW Parliament.
Profiting from injustice: challenging the investment arbitration industry
11-Feb-2013 Open Democracy
Corporations have been granted the exclusive right to sue states (states cannot sue corporations) at secretive international tribunals for action deemed to unfairly affect investors’ profits
Investment protection: government to develop model text of BITs
8-Feb-2013 Business Recorder
Pakistan’s federal government will develop a model text of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with the assistance of the Ministry of Law and Justice Division to ensure protection to investment on reciprocity basis.
Wisconsin group asks Obama to nix Pacific free trade agreement
8-Feb-2013 WPR
A Wisconsin advocacy group says the state has lost thousands of jobs due to free trade agreements and is now pressuring President Obama to oppose a new agreement that would take down trade barriers between the United States and countries around the Pacific Rim.
Ukraine handed November deadline on EU Association pact
7-Feb-2013 Bloomberg
Ukraine must seal a delayed accord to bolster ties with the European Union at a November summit or risk waiting years to sign the pact, the 27-member bloc said.
Editorial: Time to renegotiate the KORUS FTA
7-Feb-2013 Hankyoreh
It has finally been revealed in Korea that the biggest reason that the implementation of the low-carbon vehicle incentive system has been delayed to 2015 was the South Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). Concerns that the KORUS FTA would endanger not only legal but also legislative sovereignty and jeopardize Korea’s ability to create and enforce public policies are being realized.
Canada, India conclude seventh round of CEPA talks
7-Feb-2013 IB Times
The seventh round of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) talks between Canada and India, which was held in New Delhi, concluded Wednesday.
Think-tank says trade deal between Canada, Europe could kill Manitoba jobs
7-Feb-2013
A left-leaning think-tank has issued another warning that a free trade deal between Canada and Europe could kill jobs rather than create them.
’Steel should be excluded from FTA ambit with Japan, Korea’
7-Feb-2013
Steel products should be excluded from the ambit of FTA with Japan and Korea as these countries are flooding the Indian market, taking advantage of concessional duty rates at the cost of domestic firms, industry body Assocham said today.
India should review FTAs to boost farm exports: CACP chief
6-Feb-2013
India should review Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that it has entered into with ASEAN, Japan and Korea to boost farm exports, according to a discussion paper co-authored by CACP chief Ashok Gulati.
FTA with South Korea is ‘a car bomb’ for Colombia’s industrial sector: Senator
6-Feb-2013
One of the most popular and outspoken Colombian senators on Tuesday rebuked the pending free trade agreement (FTA) between Colombia and South Korea on the grounds that it undermines industrial potential.
Canadian seafood industry eyes UK market as free trade deal moves closer
6-Feb-2013
The European Union and Canada are close to signing a free trade agreement which will almost certainly open the way for more Canadian fish and seafood imports into Britain.
Thailand to go ahead with Thai-EU FTA
6-Feb-2013 Pattaya Mail
The Thai parliament has given a green light to the government to continue talks on the Thai-EU Free Trade Agreement aimed at increasing Thailand’s competitiveness in trade and investment in the EU market.
The future of AGOA and US-Africa trade
6-Feb-2013 The Africa Report
At a time when the US was struggling to stay on its two feet in the heat of a looming economic meltdown in 2008, were hopes of better trade deals with Africa unrealistic when President Barack Obama was elected into office?
Excessive corporate rights in Canada-EU trade deal are unacceptable to broad section of European, Canadian and Quebec society
6-Feb-2013 Market Wire
Labour, environmental, Indigenous, women’s, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations from Europe, Canada and Quebec representing more than 65 million people are demanding that Canada and the EU stop negotiating an excessive and controversial investor rights chapter in the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).