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Mind the gap: benefits from free trade haven’t quite gone the distance
3-Mar-2010 SMH
Five years on, it is clear the free trade agreement between Australia and the United States was a dud. Despite the fanfare with which the Howard government introduced it, no tangible benefits have resulted for Australia.
EU, Vietnam to start free-trade talks
3-Mar-2010 WSJ
The European Union and Vietnam announced the start of free-trade negotiations Tuesday, signaling a major effort to move ahead in the race to secure new markets despite the failure of the Doha Round of global trade talks.
With Avatar poised to win big at the Oscars, James Cameron should help some Na’vi right here on Earth
2-Mar-2010 The Indypendent
Cameron should put the money made from the blockbuster where it’s needed most: into indigenous communities struggling for the conservation of their land and livelihood.
EU trade pacts
2-Mar-2010 Fiji Times
A new study shows that the effects of EPAs - under which African, Caribbean and Pacific countries are expected to offer duty-free access to ’substantially all’ EU imports - will be felt differently by women and men in their roles as producers, consumers and users of services.
Colombia finalizes FTA with EU
2-Mar-2010 Colombia Reports
Colombia concluded negotiations on Monday for a free trade agreement with the European Union, after nine rounds of talks.
EU inks FTA with Peru, Colombia
2-Mar-2010 Press TV
The European Union has reached a free trade agreement with Peru and Colombia, an EU Commission spokesman said Monday. "Yes, there is an agreement."
Peru opens free trade with China, concludes trade talks with EU
2-Mar-2010 WSJ
Peru’s president Alan Garcia officially opened free trade with China Monday, and welcomed the close of negotiations on another trade deal with the European Union.
EU highest court: Israeli goods produced in the West Bank not free from custom duties
1-Mar-2010 EJP
The European Court of Justice has ruled that under the EU-Israel FTA, duty-free entry to the EU only applies to industrial goods made within Israel’s pre-1967 borders.
Obama trip may alter US misperception of Asean, Ministers say
1-Mar-2010 Bloomberg
Southeast Asian countries are split on Obama’s top trade initiative, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he aims to turn into a platform for economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region.
Seoul to lead study on East Asia FTA
26-Feb-2010 Korea Herald
The government said yesterday Korea would take the initiative in discussions on integrating the East Asian economies and push for a trilateral free trade agreement between Korea, China and Japan.
Tough IP health provisions in Europe’s Colombia/Peru trade deal
26-Feb-2010 IP Watch
Far-reaching provisions on the patenting of medicine have been inserted into a controversial free trade agreement between the European Union and Colombia and Peru.
EU trade chief to visit India
26-Feb-2010 DPA
The European Commissioner for Trade, Karel De Gucht, is due to travel to Singapore to launch negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) and to Delhi "to inject new momentum into the ongoing FTA negotiations"
U.S. committed to Korea FTA’s ratification: Clinton
26-Feb-2010
The Barack Obama administration is committed to the ratification of the pending free trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.
Trade deals expected to create 40,000 jobs over 10 years
26-Feb-2010 Peruvian Times
The Inter-American Development Bank says Peru’s free trade agreements with the United States, China and the European Union will create at least 40,000 jobs in the Andean country over the next 10 years
Syria, Turkey Discuss Economic & Investment Cooperation
25-Feb-2010
Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri and Turkish Minister of State for Economic Affairs Zafer Caglayan on Wednesday discussed means and ways of bolstering the standing cooperation between Syria and Turkey.
Seoul to lead study on East Asia FTA
25-Feb-2010
The government said yesterday Korea will take the initiative in discussions on integrating East Asian economies and push for a trilateral free trade agreement between Korea, China and Japan.
Thai tangerine producers affected by ASEAN-China FTA
24-Feb-2010 TNA
Thailand’s 4,000 small tangerine farmers are expected to reduce their output almost by half, as they cannot compete with the tariff-free Chinese imports.
Namibia keeps EU guessing on EPA
24-Feb-2010 New Era
The European Commission’s delegation in Namibia says it is “not confident” that the country would sign the full Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union, amidst a looming deadline and a possible loss of up to N$3 billion in export revenues.
Ma touts the signing of an ECFA
24-Feb-2010 Taipei Times
Ma says the Taiwan-China trade deal will create 260,000 jobs if it is signed — and cause the loss of more jobs if it is not.
UK wants India-EU trade deal by 2010 to protect jobs, increase trade
23-Feb-2010 ToI
With agreement stalled on a number of issues, including India’s demand for European countries to open up their borders to skilled Indian IT workers in return for European legal professionals to work in India, Britain is pushing for rapid conclusion of a long-delayed free trade agreement between India and the 27-nation Europe Union, saying it was holding up trade and jobs at both ends.