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World Bank says preferential deals don’t help regional performance
The World Bank says favourable treatment offered by Europe and North America has not helped the Caribbean’s overall trade performance.
Will Dow challenge Quebec pesticide law?
Dow AgroSciences is mulling over a NAFTA challenge to Quebec’s law banning the cosmetic use of pesticides, setting a spotlight on one of the most controversial clauses of the trade agreement among Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Now not the time to be signing away NZ’s sovereignty
At a time when New Zealand needs the flexibility to respond to pressing domestic economic priorities, and with fresh questions being raised in Australia about the value of their free trade agreements, now was not the time to be signing away New Zealand’s economic sovereignty, Professor Jane Kelsey told a select committee this morning considering the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand free trade agreement.
In Sierra Leone, Civil Society Dialogue Forum on EPA Ends
The Africa Youth Coalition Against Hunger - Sierra Leone (AYCAH-SL), Civil Society Movement (CSM) in collaboration with Action Aid International, on 30th March 2009 concluded a one-day Dialogue Forum on Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), at the British Council Auditorium in Freetown.
Region Cautious on Free Trade with Canada
Two years ago, newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged his country’s neglect of the Caribbean in recent years.
EU, Korea failed to finalize trade pact in London
South Korea and the European Union failed on Thursday to finalize a free trade deal, South Korean officials here said, adding they would seek a way to conclude the deal. South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon and his EU counterpart Catherine Ashton met here to narrow differences on some remaining sticky issues, including a so-called duty drawback scheme and rules of origin, but failed to wrap up the agreement.
Deadly pact
Opposition is growing over a controversial bilateral trade agreement Canada signed with Colombia in November, the largest trade accord in the Americas after NAFTA.
Reveal contents of RP-EU Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, urges militant group Pamalakaya
Militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is urging the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to divulge the content of the RP-European Union Partnership and Cooperation Agreement or (PCA).
Our FTA with South-East Asia labelled ’mediocre’
Australia’s biggest ever free trade agreement has been branded as mediocre by one of the first detailed reviews of the deal.
Why a free trade agreement with our big brothers could hurt us
Article explaining possible negative implications (for the Pacific Island Countries) of a free trade agreement with Australia and NZ...
Legal Issues and Objections to the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA
Survey of Legal Issues and Objections to AANZFTA from the Perspective of a Philippine N.G.O.
Pacific lessons from the Economic Partnership Agreement
A trade deal between the world’s largest economic region, the European Union - and the world’s smallest - the Pacific - was never going to be easy.
Australia looks to FTA to open China to investment
Access to direct investments in China has become a bigger priority for Australia as it negotiates a Free Trade Agreement, Trade Minister Simon Crean told reporters on Tuesday.
NUPGE asks Ignatieff to block Colombia trade deal
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is appealing to the federal Liberal Party to join with other opposition parties to block the new Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
ECFA separate from any similar U.S. plan, says AIT
A potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Taiwan would have no direct link to Taiwan’s proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China, according to a senior U.S. official in Taipei.
West Africa: Don’t Conclude Regional EPA in June 2009 -Gapto
Members of the Ghana Agricultural Producers and Traders Organisation (GAPTO) have called on the governments of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) not to conclude the Regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with European Union (EU) in June, this year.
KOR-US FTA’s three poisons
Why is the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) an issue again? The administration of President Lee Myung-bak is trying to use the global economic crisis to force its market fundamentalism on the country. The FTA is the final push.
Minister defends Colombia free-trade deal
Parliamentary hearings will give a fulsome airing to critics of Canada’s proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia, says the Harper government’s Latin American cabinet minister, Peter Kent, the minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
G20 should halt free trade agreements
In a report released today, Traidcraft shows that the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) under negotiation, would strip away essential policy tools that India needs to support its economy and safeguard jobs — when European governments are doing all they can to rescue their own economies during these exceptional times.
5 years of free trade with Korea
On Wednesday, Korea and Chile will be celebrating the 5th anniversary since they signed the free trade agreement.