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Trade deal must safeguard our sovereignty
16-Jun-2010
A second round of negotiations towards the Transpacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPPTA) is taking place this week in San Francisco. New Zealand is one of eight parties along with the US, Australia, Singapore, Chile, Peru, Brunei and Vietnam, and others may join.
Negative list of SAFTA comprises 53pc of total regional trade India’s tariff, non-tariff barriers restrict trade in South Asia
16-Jun-2010
The negative list of South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) comprises 53 per cent of the total trade between the regional countries, therefore, fully implementation on the agreement would not even yield the desired results, a senior official said on Tuesday.
US food giants support free trade deal
16-Jun-2010
Key members of the United States food industry have come out in support of comprehensive free trade deal including New Zealand.
Dominican Republic gets a new rival in sugar exports to the US
16-Jun-2010
US president Barack Obama modified the provisions in the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (Cafta) to allow imports of sugar from Costa Rica starting today.
Turkey turns east to form free trade zone
16-Jun-2010
Turkey has embarked on the road to a “Middle Eastern Union” as an alternative to the European Union, according to some observers, after Ankara unveiled its vision for a giant free-trade zone spanning from the Bosphorus to Sudan and Morocco.
BoI tasked to facilitate investment
16-Jun-2010
The Board of Investment (BoI) has been tasked to formulate Special Economic Zone Act (SEZA), update the existing Promotion and Protection of Investment Act 1976 and conclude Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) and Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with other countries specially the United States.
Accords de partenariat économique : Le bras de fer Afrique de l’Ouest-Union européenne continue
15-Jun-2010 LeFasoNet
Le dialogue de sourds entre l’Union européenne et l’Afrique de l’Ouest concernant les APE est loin d’être terminé. C’est du moins ce qui ressort du point de presse de la société civile, à l’issue des négociations intervenues au cours de la semaine dernière.
Commons seals Colombia free-trade deal
15-Jun-2010 Globe & Mail
Canada’s free-trade agreement with Colombia passed Monday in the House of Commons with the backing of the Liberals, sealing a deal much criticized by human rights groups
Canada lawmakers ratify free trade agreement with Colombia, send to Senate
15-Jun-2010 Bloomberg
Canadian lawmakers approved a free trade agreement with Colombia, a move that may give its agricultural producers an advantage over US competitors in the Latin American country. The deal now moves to the Senate for final approval.
Banana growers in Ecuador fear for their future
15-Jun-2010 BBC
Everyone is watching closely for the results of a visit by an EU delegation to Quito on 14-16 June.
EU-Morocco food products agreement
15-Jun-2010 EuroJar
After four years of intensive negotiations between the European Union and Morocco, the agreement on trade in food products has been initialed. It still needs to be concluded after adoption by the European Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. And yet, this initiative is not receiving unanimous support.
Israel’s Freedom Flotilla Massacre underlines the urgency of intensifying BDS
15-Jun-2010 PTT
We call on civil society organisations to pressure their governments to end free trade agreements (FTAs) with Israel, and implement an immediate arms embargo against it, as was called for previously by Amnesty International after Cast Lead
Straight talk across Palk Strait — “No FTAs”!
15-Jun-2010 MONLAR
A joint India-Lanka people’s statement for cultivating peace and not free trade agreements
Talk of the day — New model for cross-strait negotiations
14-Jun-2010 Focus Taiwan
A new model patterned after the Taiwan-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) will be introduced in negotiations across the Taiwan Strait
Opposition party to rally 100,000 against ECFA on June 26
14-Jun-2010 Taiwan News
Taiwan’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party will invite former President Lee Teng-hui to join 100,000 protesters at a June 26 rally against the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China, reports said yesterday.
US food giants support free trade deal
14-Jun-2010 Radio NZ
Food giants Nestle and Walmart are among 26 signatories to a letter to the US Trade Representative and Department of Agriculture. In it, they warn protecting US special interests in negotiations could cost its exporters free access to other TPP countries’ markets.
Host US under pressure in Asia-Pacific trade talks
14-Jun-2010 Reuters
Trade negotiators from the United States, Vietnam and six other Asia Pacific nations meet in San Francisco this week for work on a free-trade agreement that US trade officials say could transform the region.
CEPA is yet another step in Indian Expansionism
13-Jun-2010 The Sunday Leader
Concerns over the proposed India-Sri Lanka Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva
Davutoğlu proposes regional trade alliance at TAC meeting
11-Jun-2010
Turkey aims to create a free trade zone without visa restrictions with Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told the Turkish-Arab Cooperation Forum (TAC), which began in İstanbul on Thursday.
New deal or no deal!
11-Jun-2010
Forum and rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in San Francisco, California, on 14 June 2010