bilaterals.org logo
bilaterals.org logo

Articles by language

English
Tagalog
China ECFA debate about more than economy: Taiwan white-collar alliance
20-Apr-2010 Taiwan News
Taiwan’s April 25 televised debate about the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement project should discuss more than just the economy, an alliance of ECFA opponents said Sunday. Meanwhile, opposition groups are hoping to rally 1 million people islandwide for anti-ECFA protests on June 6.
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) - draft consolidated text (2010)
20-Apr-2010
Open Civil Society Declaration on a proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union
20-Apr-2010 TJN
Social organisations and movements in Canada have serious reservations about the scope and negotiating process of the proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
Trade Justice Network releases secret draft of Canada-European Union free trade agreement, makes demands of Canadian and European governments
20-Apr-2010 Earth Times
As the third round of Canada-European Union free trade negotiations commence the newly formed Trade Justice Network today publicly released the draft text of the proposed Canada-European Union Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) — the most significant bilateral trade negotiation since the NAFTA.
Japan hits RP for auto tariffs
20-Apr-2010 Business Mirror
"The [JPEPA] agreement has been signed and only the implementation is not taking place,” said Yasuhiko Arimitsu, president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines.
El Salvador’s misfortune in gold: Mining, murder, and corporate malfeasance
19-Apr-2010
The recent turmoil over the efforts of Pacific Rim, a Canadian corporation, to carry out a gold-mining project in El Salvador is a catalyst for reviving the deep-seated divisions that go back to the Central American country’s bloody civil war from 1980 to 1992.
Commentary: After a year of the EPA with Europe: What benefits for the Caribbean?
16-Apr-2010 Caribbean Net News
Even though Caribbean countries and the EU are supposed to be ‘partners’ under the EPA, the EC has denounced the Sugar Protocol causing Caribbean countries to lose their preferential price for sugar; the EC has agreed a new trade regime for bananas with exports from non African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that will decimate what is left of the banana industry in the Caribbean; and come June 20, the EC will renege on an undertaking to the Caribbean rum industry to help finance restructuring and marketing while at the same time reducing tariffs on competing rum from several Latin American countries.
Venezuela and Nicaragua progress on food security, refinery, and public health
16-Apr-2010 Venezuelanalysis
Venezuelan and Nicaraguan officials met in Managua on Wednesday to deepen bilateral economic ties with the goal of fostering import substitution, promoting Latin American integration, and creating an economic alternative to US-dominated free trade agreements.
IBSA countries sign agreements on scientific areas
16-Apr-2010 Xinhua
Representatives from India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) on Thursday signed two agreements on scientific cooperation, in Brazilian capital Brasilia.
US-Israel trade pact must be updated: senator
16-Apr-2010 AFP
The United States and Israel must modernize their 1985 free trade agreement to better reflect high-tech commerce between the staunch allies, a US senator urged Thursday.
Gates pushes for US-Colombia trade pact
16-Apr-2010 AFP
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates pledged Thursday to renew a push for a free trade agreement with Colombia, reaffirming US support for its closest ally in Latin America during a visit to Bogotá.
No ACTA-free trade link? ’Yeah right’, says IP lawyer
16-Apr-2010 ComputerWorld
Suspicions persist over a link between the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and negotiations for international free-trade pacts, despite efforts by officials to downplay the issue.
EU ready to start FTA talks with Malaysia
16-Apr-2010 The Star
The European Union is ready for talks on the free trade agreement with Malaysia, says ambassador and head of delegation of the EU to Malaysia Vincent Piket.
Beware the EU agenda
15-Apr-2010 Business Standard
Tough intellectual property rights sought by the EU in its free trade agreement with India have set off global protests
Sables bitumineux: un groupe environnemental porte le débat devant l’ALENA
15-Apr-2010 Presse Canadienne
Un groupe environnemental canadien porte sa lutte contre l’exploitation des sables bitumineux albertains devant le mécanisme de régulation environnementale de l’Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (ALENA).
Egypt, Mercosur to complete free trade agreement in July
15-Apr-2010 Reuters
Egypt expects to complete free trade negotiations with the four Mercosur countries — Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay — in July, Egypt’s trade minister said on Wednesday.
Tarsands complaint goes before NAFTA watchdog
15-Apr-2010 The Canadian Press
A Canadian environment group is claiming the federal government is breaking its own laws when it comes to the tar sands, and plans to take its concerns to NAFTA.
S Korea to examine feasibility of China, S. Korea FTA
15-Apr-2010 Xinhua
South Korea will probe into the feasibility of the free trade agreement (FTA) with China, examining how a pact may boost up the country’s overall competitiveness, local media reported Thursday.
EU-Colombia-Peru FTA (2010)
14-Apr-2010
As agreed to on 30 March 2010
Q & ACTA, with Michael Geist
14-Apr-2010 iTnews
With the Wellington round of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) talks underway, organised opposition to the proposed treaty on intellectual property rights and enforcement is also gathering in the New Zealand capital. A brief chat with a global expert on the ACTA treaty.