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8-Aug-2010
The United States has confirmed its commitment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement negotiations, with one of its most senior representatives saying enthusiasm is high and likely to rise.
8-Aug-2010
The Ministry of Trade and Industry is in the process of establishing a national body under the 2002 Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Agreement.
8-Aug-2010
Local society in general has hailed the imminent start of talks with Singapore on signing an economic cooperation agreement as a breakthrough for Taiwan in its pursuit of better foreign trade relations after decades of being overshadowed by China.
8-Aug-2010
U.S. lawmakers have asked for a revision to the textile clause in the free trade agreement (FTA) signed with South Korea in 2007, congressional sources said Friday.
8-Aug-2010
Taiwan is eyeing Vietnam and Indonesia as potential free trade agreement (FTA) partners after announcing earlier this week that it had agreed with Singapore to explore the feasibility of a free trade deal, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Saturday.
8-Aug-2010
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk says it is unlikely that other clauses will be included when bilateral talks are held to address Washington’s concerns on beef and auto regarding the Korea-US free trade agreement.
6-Aug-2010
Reuters
Chevron Corp urged a US federal appeals court not to force it into Ecuador’s courts, but to allow it to go to international arbitration, to defend a $27.4 bn lawsuit alleging its oilfields polluted the Amazon rainforest and sickened thousands of Ecuadorians.
6-Aug-2010
CNA
Trade negotiators from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs have started talks with Japanese economic and trade officials with the aim of promoting economic and trade integration between the two countries
5-Aug-2010
NYT
South Korea’s ambassador to China said in an interview published Thursday that his nation was likely to open free trade talks with Beijing next year. The negotiations could be a first step toward a three-nation trade zone including Japan, which would rival the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement in size.
5-Aug-2010
Tax-News.com
It has been announced that Taiwan and Singapore will initiate talks later this year on the feasibility of signing a bilateral economic cooperation agreement under the framework of the World Trade Organization. It was said that the trade agreement would not be called an FTA in order to avoid giving any problem to China.
5-Aug-2010
TWN
The Malaysian Cabinet had given the go-ahead to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and it is now up to the member countries of the regional grouping to decide on Malaysia’s entry.
5-Aug-2010
Civil society groups from the Pacific including churches, trade unions, gender groups, indigenous rights groups and advocacy groups launched a statement calling for a moratorium on negotiations for a new Pacific-wide free trade agreement known as PACER-Plus.
3-Aug-2010
RTI
Japanese industries are very interested in the recently signed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement between Taiwan and China as a way to enter China.
3-Aug-2010
Dow Jones
The International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, or Icsid, dismissed the claims lodged by Enron Creditors Recovery Corp and Ponderosa Assets L.P. late Friday.
3-Aug-2010
Reuters
Mercosur, a South American trade bloc that groups big agricultural exporters Brazil and Argentina, signed a free-trade deal with Egypt on Monday, Argentina’s industry minister said.
3-Aug-2010
TOBOC
Turkey will join an economic bloc comprising of the Middle Eastern states such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan ahead of the protracted accession to the EU.
3-Aug-2010
IPS
There are already reports that India and the European Union will have a free-trade agreement ready by the end of August, causing more nervous chatter here in India
3-Aug-2010
CNA
Taiwan’s top envoy to the European Union and Belgium called Monday for a free trade agreement between Taiwan and the EU, saying that the ground has already been laid with the recent signing of a trade pact with China.
3-Aug-2010
Mint
India’s ongoing negotiations with the European Union have seen differences over intellectual property rights
2-Aug-2010
PDI
“President Aquino will be flying to the US in September to explore an engagement with [Washington], whether a bilateral or a cluster free-trade agreement,” said the director of the Philippines’ Bureau of International Trade Relations,
