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Activists oppose Igantieff’s support of CCFTA
9-May-2009 Hour
Despite calls from labour and human rights organizations across Canada, on May 1 Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff announced that the party would support the ratification of a proposed Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).
EU agrees to final push in South Korea trade talks
9-May-2009 AFP
EU governments renewed on Friday their support for wrapping up floundering free trade talks with South Korea, a European Commission spokesman said.
Swine flu highlights the problem of accepting the intellectual property protections promoted by the European Union
8-May-2009
Confronted by a potential pandemic, negotiations for FTAs with the European Union are taking place in Brussels this week, where more extensive protections for intellectual property will be discussed.
BIO position on Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA
8-May-2009 BIO
Position paper of the US-based Biotechnology Industry Organisation on the US negotiation of a Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA with Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand and Peru
Don’t sign EPAs - COSATU urges Namibia
7-May-2009 Informante
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions has urged Namibia to follow South Africa and Angola’s footsteps in refusing to sign the much-debated Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union, alleging that the purported agreement has a ‘hidden’ agenda.
Nigeria: Country rejects EPA
7-May-2009 AllAfrica.com
Nigeria is not ready to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) aimed to liberalise trade between Africa, the European Union (EU), Carribean and Pacific countries, Minister of Commerce and Indsutry Chief Achike Udenwa said yesterday.
Indo-US bilateral investment talks on hold
7-May-2009 Economic Times
The election process in the US and India seems to have put discussions on the bilateral investment treaty (BIT) - a pact to ease investment laws between the two countries - on the backburner.
US-EU accord ends beef import rift
7-May-2009 FT
The European Union and the US on Thursday settled a long-running dispute over hormone-treated beef in a deal both sides said demonstrated their determination to reduce bilateral friction amid plunging world trade.
Korea, US trade ministers to seek progress on FTA
7-May-2009 Korea Herald
Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon and his US counterpart Ron Kirk will meet in Washington next week to discuss trade issues and seek a way forward in the stalled bilateral free-trade agreement
Australian trade min urges China to agree free trade pact
7-May-2009 Dow Jones Newswires
Crean has expressed frustration at the slow pace of the FTA negotiations, saying in March talks were "bogged down" just at a time when Australia wanted to develop a framework for a new economic partnership with China, which would include a framework for investment in an FTA.
Liberalisation will facilitate US-M’sia FTA talks
7-May-2009 Bernama
Liberalisation of the financial sector will facilitate the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Malaysia and the United States, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said today.
ASEAN-EU FTA talks frozen
7-May-2009 Jakarta Post
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the European Union have agreed to halt ongoing talks on the free trade agreement.
Johnson to represent Quebec at Canada-European Union trade talks
6-May-2009
Former Parti Québecois premier Pierre Marc Johnson will represent Quebec in Canada-European Union trade talks.
“Independence Means the Capacity to Stand on one’s Feet” Says Sidia Jatta
6-May-2009
At the two-day sensitization workshop organised by The Gambia Social Forum on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) for National Assembly Members, Media and the Civil Society Representatives held on the 22-23 April, 2009 at the Corinthian Atlantic Hotel, Hon. Sidia Jatta, the National Assembly Member for Wuli West, gave critical analysis of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) regarding its overwhelming disadvantages and urged The Gambia not to sign it.
Canada and European Union launch historic economic partnership
6-May-2009
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, along with European Union President Mirek Topolánek and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, today announced the historic launch of negotiations toward an economic partnership agreement between Canada and the European Union.
West accused of ‘hypocrisy’ on free trade
6-May-2009
A former Qatari minister yesterday lambasted Western “hypocrisy” and “double standards” when it came to free trade agreements (FTAs) with smaller nations. And he maintained that the GCC-US FTA was a thing of the “past”.
’Food colonialism’ increasing hunger in Africa
6-May-2009 Modern Ghana
The European Union is coercing some West African governments into allowing European-based fishing companies to deplete West Africa’s fishing stocks in a new "food colonialism" that is now taking place between rich and poor countries around the world, according to British author George Monbiot.
India: US wish list may affect next government
6-May-2009 Business Standard
Addressing an industry chamber gathering two weeks ago, US Embassy deputy chief of mission Steven J White listed the US wish-list for its ties with India: negotiating a bilateral investment treaty; end-use monitoring agreement to protect so-called sensitive technology; enlarging the “farmer-market link” of the Agricultural Knowledge Initiative; and operationalising the nuclear deal.
Benguet farmers alerted on trade pacts
6-May-2009 MB
Associations of farmers and local government units in this vegetable-producing province and local governments were alerted on reports that the national government has entered into bilateral agreements and treaties on the trading of agricultural products.
NZ-Hong Kong free trade talks resume
6-May-2009 New Zealand Herald
Trade talks with Hong Kong resume in Wellington this week and Trade Minister Tim Groser says he’s hoping for positive steps forward.