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Honduras: Protest against ALBA withdrawal
18-Jan-2010 GLW
On January 7, hundreds of Hondurans risked violent repression by the police and military to protest outside the national parliament building against the coup regime’s decision to withdraw the country from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA).
EPA deal: Impasse on services persists
18-Jan-2010 The East African
Although the region has concluded a deal on market access to the European Union, there remain fundamental disagreements on trade in services. The EastAfrican has learnt that the matter will be left out of any deals signed this year as countries want it handled at a bilateral level.
US officials join pessimists about FTA with Korea
18-Jan-2010 Chosun Ilbo
Senior officials in the Obama administration, congressmen and staff see nearly no prospect for the ratification of the Korea-US free trade agreement by the US Congress, according to a group of Korean lawmakers just back from the US.
Palestinians declare war on Jewish settlements’ products
17-Jan-2010 Xinhua
The PNA campaign is accompanied by an international campaign to boycott any product made in Israeli settlements that the PNA considers illegal.
Join the 2nd Global BDS Day of Action - 30 March 2010
15-Jan-2010 Global BDS Movement
The Global BDS Day of Action aims to promote a freeze or cancellation of free trade and other preferential agreements as a crucial and urgent step towards full-fledged sanctions against Israel
It’s not OK: protest march against Hillary Clinton
15-Jan-2010 Scoop
Clinton arrives in New Zealand this week pushing her corporate globalisation agenda. She wants a Pacific Free Trade Agreement and closer military ties between the US and New Zealand.
Traditional market is not yet ready for free-trade era
15-Jan-2010 Berita Jakarta
"ASEAN-China free trade is an inhuman and immoral trade," says Hasan Basri, head of the Jakarta chapter of Indonesia’s traditional market traders association
The China-Asean free trade area: Propaganda and reality
15-Jan-2010 Inquirer
The propaganda mills, especially in Beijing, have been trumpeting the FTA as bringing “mutual benefits” to China and Asean. The reality, however, is that most of the advantages will probably flow to China, writes Walden Bello.
Commitment needed for China trade
15-Jan-2010 Stuff
We’re the only Western country to boast a free trade deal with China. But are New Zealand companies — and the Government — doing enough to exploit that?
Honduran congress votes to leave ALBA
13-Jan-2010 Morning Star
The Honduran Congress, which is dominated by supporters of self-styled "interim president" Roberto Micheletti, voted 123 to five late on Tuesday to end co-operation with Cuba and Venezuela under the the ALBA Peoples’ Trade Treaty.
US revives Asia trade agenda
13-Jan-2010 Asia Times
A US commitment to the P4 through a wider trade pact would indirectly inject new life into the fading Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which veered off course into security issues during the George W Bush administration and which is now struggling to achieve its market-liberalizing goals set out in Bogor, Indonesia, in 1994.
Spanish firms launch ICSID dispute against Mexico over stalled toxic waste disposal project
13-Jan-2010 ITN
Spanish firms Abengoa, S.A. and COFIDES, S.A. have launched a claim with ICSID against Mexico over the stalled opening of a toxic waste disposal plant built by them in the municipality of Zimapán, approximately 200 kilometres north of Mexico City.
Free trade proposal worries dairy allies
13-Jan-2010 WDT
The last time the United States and New Zealand opened up their agricultural markets to each other, New Zealand’s dairy farmers won greater access to a coveted piece of the US dairy industry. The United States settled for cat food.
Indonesia to prepare FTA deal with Egypt
13-Jan-2010 VIVA News
The governments of Indonesia and Egypt agreed to start talks on possible free trade agreement in no time, according to Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu
Indonesia back-tracks on China trade pact
13-Jan-2010 AFP
Indonesia has asked to re-write a new regional trade pact with China, citing fears of job losses due to a flood of cheap Chinese imports across various sectors, officials said Wednesday.
Free-trade pacts ignore labor
13-Jan-2010 Bsuienss Mirror
Recruitment agencies caution the Philippine government in signing free-trade agreements with developed countries because they will only result in further job losses for local workers
Hariri: Lebanon will soon sign free-trade deal with Turkey
13-Jan-2010 Daily Star
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said during a meeting with Turkish and Lebanese businessmen in Istanbul on Tuesday a free trade agreement between Lebanon and Turkey will soon be signed.
Free trade does little for Australia
13-Jan-2010 Fruitnet.com
Five years into a free trade deal between Australia and the US and horticulture industry insiders say not much has changed
China-ASEAN FTA to boost Malaysian palm oil export
13-Jan-2010
The full implementation of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) is expected to boost the export of Malaysia’s palm oil industry, especially to China
A North American Security Perimeter On The Horizon
12-Jan-2010 beyourownleader
We are well on the way towards a North American security perimeter where trade and investment will be able to roam freely, while we are all forced to endure new security practices dominated by U.S. interests.