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Trade pact to boost India’s ties with Canada
6-Jun-2011
Taking forward their long-standing relationship, India and Canada aim at a bilateral trade target of $15 billion in the next five years. Both countries are in talks for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) that would yield significant economic benefit and lower tariff on a large number of products for both the countries.
South Korea ‘free trade’ deal: Another funnel for exploitation
6-Jun-2011 In These Times
While President Obama and most Congressional Democrats are allowing the Republicans to define America’s most urgent crisis as the budget deficit, the nation’s job deficit grows more dire day by day with no clear, forceful direction coming from the White House.
A gov’t that’s often lost in translation
5-Jun-2011
The embarrassing translation errors in Korea’s free trade agreements have revealed the government’s weakness in translation skills and a startling overconfidence in its civil servants’ foreign language abilities.
For harnessing South Asia’s trade potential
5-Jun-2011
The South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) has so far been long on promises but short on actions. It was envisaged to raise inter-regional trade in South Asia - which is one of the world’s least economically integrated regions - to $40 billion by 2015 from $11bn in 2007, shortly after it was agreed. But that now clearly remains a very tall promise.
Central American integration —and militarization
5-Jun-2011
Representatives of the governments of Mexico and the Central American countries wrapped up a fifth round of talks on a regional free trade agreement last week. The negotiations took place in Mexico City, with the next round of talks to be held in August in El Salvador.
Prospect for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and Japan has come under discussion at bilateral level
5-Jun-2011
Given the strong economic, political and cultural ties shared by the two countries an FTA to further bolster bilateral trade had been a topic during a meeting between Japanese Ambassador Kunio Takahashi and Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen.
Apple growers to hold massive protest in Himachal
5-Jun-2011 HimVani
Himachal Pradesh Apple Growers Association has decided to hold massive protest demonstrations throughout the state on 6th June 2011 against the government’s free trade agreements which allow foreign apples to come in at increasingly reduced rates.
Canada seeks more free trade, security zone with US
5-Jun-2011 AFP
Governor General David Johnston said Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper would work with Washington to create a continental security perimeter around Canada and the United States "ensuring that people and goods can flow freely and safely between our two countries."
T-FTA: Devil is in implementation
4-Jun-2011
Success of the grandiose Tripartite Free Trade Area will largely depend on how geared members of COMESA, EAC and SADC are to swiftly implementing agreements and trade protocols.
Trade groups urge FTA among S. Korea, China, Japan
4-Jun-2011
Major trade organizations of South Korea, China and Japan urged their governments Friday to quickly sign a three-way free trade agreement (FTA) to strengthen their economic cooperation.
India likely to sign FTA with EU this year: Sharma
4-Jun-2011
India is hopeful of signing the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union this year and negotiations are at an ‘advanced stage’, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said today.
Wrestling with Big Pharma
2-Jun-2011
Canadians spend a lot of money (public and private) on health care and much of that is spent on drugs — some $23.4 billion in 2008. Provincial insurance plans are desperately trying to cope, looking to initiatives like the recently passed Ontario law that caps prices of generic drugs at 25 per cent of the brand name equivalent.
US florists join Asocolflores in trade deal push
2-Jun-2011
The Society of American Florists, the umbrella organisation for the flower industry in the US, has supported the announcement that the US and Colombia have reached an agreement to help clear a path toward final Congressional approval of the US/Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
Korea Trade’s Cho Says Petrochemical Firms to Benefit From FTA
2-Jun-2011
Cho Seong Dae, chief researcher at the FTA & Industry Research Office Institute for International Trade, part of the Korea International Trade Association, comments on the impact of a free-trade agreement with the European Union on South Korean petrochemical companies.
Germany for speedy conclusion of proposed EU-ASEAN FTA
2-Jun-2011 CNA
Germany supports a speedy conclusion of the proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and ASEAN. This was in view of the non-conclusion of the Doha round of talks, says German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
La zone de libre-échange avec l’UE reportée à 2020
2-Jun-2011 El Watan
L’Algérie a obtenu un accord de principe pour que la zone de libre-échange avec l’Union européenne entre en vigueur en 2020 au lieu de 2017 comme prévu initialement
Farm groups make case for passage of free-trade deals
31-May-2011
Emphasizing the importance of trade to the nation’s economy and the need to prevent the loss of existing export markets, agricultural leaders converged on Capitol Hill to urge for immediate passage of three outstanding trade agreements.
Services: to liberalize or not?
31-May-2011
The Southern Africa Development Community and the Common Market for East and Southern Africa are currently in the process of liberalizing trade in services.
Three outstanding issues remain in FTA agreement between Ukraine, EU, says Ukrainian PM
31-May-2011
The agreement on the establishment of a free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union is almost ready, although there are three unresolved issues remaining, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
DP calls for renegotiation of free trade pact with US
31-May-2011
Leaders of Korea’s main opposition party Tuesday urged the government to renegotiate the free trade agreement with the United States before seeking parliamentary approval.