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Free trade agreements may aid toxic-waste trade
12-Jan-2010 DNA India
As Indian negotiations for signing free trade agreements (FTAs) with trade partners such as Japan and the European Union (EU) gather momentum, so do concerns over environment and waste dumping.
S’pore, Costa Rica, to ink FTA
12-Jan-2010 Straits Times
It will be Costa Rica’s first with an Asian country
Israel pushing for trade pact with India
12-Jan-2010 The Hindu
Israel on Monday said it wants to push for a free trade agreement with India with an objective of tripling bilateral commerce to USD 12 billion over the next four-five years.
China trade deal to cost Indonesia ’millions of jobs’
11-Jan-2010 Jakarta Globe
In the latest and most authoritative warning about a new region-wide free-trade agreement with China, an executive with the state social security provider PT Jamsostek predicts that as many to two million Indonesians will be laid off because their firms can’t outperform their Chinese rivals.
Will beef derail US-Taiwan trade relations?
11-Jan-2010 Time
The U.S. Defense Department’s approval of a new arms package to Taiwan on Wednesday was the best new year’s gift that President Ma Ying-jeou could ask for
Palestinians seek to shut down settler trade
10-Jan-2010 Reuters
Prime Minister Fayyad said if Palestinians wanted to persuade the European Union to ban trade with the settlements — considered illegal under international law — they would have to do it themselves first.
FFII calls to remove IP chapter from EU-Korea free trade agreement
10-Jan-2010
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) calls upon the EU Parliament and member states to remove the intellectual property rights chapter from the EU - Korea Free Trade Agreement.
ASEAN trade deal under fire
8-Jan-2010 Fruitnet.com
Australia’s free trade agreement with ASEAN is in effect, but Nationals leader Warren Truss sees the deal as a one-way street
Mercosur eludes Chavez as Paraguay demurs
7-Jan-2010 UPI
Venezuela’s hopes of an early inclusion into the Mercosur trading bloc suffered a new blow as Paraguayan Vice President Federico Franco ruled out ratification of the pact while Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez harbored designs on the landlocked state
Minister: Peru set to sign EU free trade accord in May
7-Jan-2010 Dow Jones
Peru’s free trade agreement with the European Union should be signed in Madrid in May, Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said Thursday.
Taiwan bans US beef
7-Jan-2010 Examiner
Taiwan’s legislative Yuan Tuesday banned the sale of US beef to that island country, a move that infuriated US beef exporters and could lead to trade disputes with the United States.
Thousands rally to demand delay of ASEAN-China FTA
7-Jan-2010 Jakarta Post
Thousands of workers from across West Java staged a rally in Bandung on Wednesday, demanding the implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement be postponed in Indonesia.
Taiwan bans import of US beef
5-Jan-2010 Press TV
In a reversal of a negotiated deal with Washington, Taiwanese lawmakers on Tuesday banned imports of some kinds of beefs from the United States, citing health concerns.
Taiwan curbs US beef imports in latest Asia trade frictions
5-Jan-2010 CSM
Health concerns and angry protests have prompted partial bans on US beef imports in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea – most recently by Taipei on Tuesday. The recurring dispute has strained relations.
Indonesia may seek tariff delays in ASEAN-China pact
5-Jan-2010 Reuters
Indonesia’s coordinating minister for the economy, Hatta Rajasa, said on Monday that a letter had been sent to ASEAN seeking "further discussion" of its obligation to reduce tariffs.
US should understand Taiwan’s beef stand
4-Jan-2010 Taiwan News
Washington should refrain from pretending that the BSE concerns are a "false issue" or using the TIFA talks or defensive arms sales to pressure the Taiwan legislature to accept a secret protocol, whose full content remains unknown even to KMT lawmakers.
Australia, New Zealand free trade agreement with Asean starts
4-Jan-2010 Bloomberg
Australia’s free trade agreement with New Zealand and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations came into effect, removing tariffs on grape exports to Malaysia and wheat sales to the Philippines.
China and ASEAN launch world’s 3rd biggest trade zone
1-Jan-2010 Reuters
China sees the agreement as a way of securing supplies of raw materials, while countries in ASEAN see opportunities in China’s huge market.
My only prediction for 2010 and it ain’t pretty
1-Jan-2010 Inquisitr
This will be the year in which we will see the biggest assault on copyright laws around the world.
Taiwan’s likely ban on US beef stalls trade talks
31-Dec-2009 WSJ
Because of the proposed ban, Taiwan’s minister of economic affairs, Shih Yen-shiang, told parliament Wednesday that resumption of talks on a free-trade pact with the U.S. would be indefinitely delayed