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Chile, Turkey finish FTA talks
21-Mar-2009 Trend News
Chile and Turkey finished the last round of negotiations on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA), announced Friday the Chilean Foreign Ministry.
EU-India FTA: Public interest groups detained during protest
21-Mar-2009
As the 6th round of negotiations related to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement got underway In Delhi today, the police detained several representatives of public interest groups during a peaceful protest in front of the office of the European Commission. Trade bureaucrats from the EC and Indian Commerce Ministry will deliberate on issues ranging from services, manufacturing, trade facilitation and government procurement till 19 March.
Reflections on Pakistan’s investment-treaty program after 50 years: an interview with the former Attorney General of Pakistan, Makhdoom Ali Khan
19-Mar-2009
Pakistan inked the first ever bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with the government of West Germany 50 years ago, before going on to accumulate one of the largest portfolios of BITs held by a developing country: some 47 in total, 35 of which were signed in a flurry of activity between 1988 and 1999.
Goodwill with Japan on FTA
19-Mar-2009
Japanese demand for Australian commodities may be waning, but the Rudd Government insists there is still the political will for Tokyo and Canberra to find common ground on free trade.
Renowned professor calls for KORUS FTA renegotiation
19-Mar-2009 Hankyoreh
Lee Hae-young, a professor of international trade at Hanshin University, has proposed that the South Korean government renegotiate the free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States, saying the government should embrace repeated requests for renegotiation from the United States as a chance to review provisions it feels are unfair.
Protesters detained outside European Commission office
18-Mar-2009 Times of India
As the sixth round of negotiations related to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) got underway on Tuesday, the police detained a couple of representatives of public interest groups during a peaceful protest in front of the office of the European Commission (EC).
Will The SPP Rise Again?
17-Mar-2009 Border Fire Report
The global elite have not abandoned their vision for a North American Union and the SPP will rise again in one form or another.
Israel’s government abuses Free Trade Agreement with US
17-Mar-2009 TAM
According to a chart of lost revenues and jobs between 1999 and 2008, the last 10 years of the FTA with Israel, the jobs lost to the American public is now an irreversible attribute of the US-Israeli trade relationship.
Amid protests, EU-India trade talks begin today
17-Mar-2009 WSJ
Ahead of the three-day free trade negotiations between India and the European Union, starting on Tuesday, a campaign group led by trade unions and non-profit organizations have asked the government to halt the talks.
FTA with China and Rio deal ’not linked’
17-Mar-2009 Sydney Morning Herald
A free trade deal between China and Australia won’t be conditional on the government giving the green light to Chinalco’s grab for a bigger share of Rio Tinto, Trade Minister Simon Crean says.
US farm exports at risk over Mexico truck dispute
17-Mar-2009 Reuters
US wheat, beef, rice and bean exports to Mexico face possible retaliatory duties in a dispute over whether Mexican trucks will be able to operate in the United States, Republican lawmakers said on Monday.
Jane Kelsey: Free trade deal may not make sense in these hard times
17-Mar-2009 NZ Herald
The careful stage management of announcements on free trade agreements is not new. But the US decision to defer negotations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership should encourage us to look beyond the simplistic assumptions that the more free trade agreements we sign, the better off we will be, based mainly on some fanciful modelling of the gains to agricultural exporters.
Globalization: The Long and Winding Road
17-Mar-2009
It has been widely announced that the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is dead, as well as plans for a NAFTA Highway which many assured me never even existed in the first place.
SA may be excluded from EU partner deal
17-Mar-2009 Business Day
The European Union is likely to move towards the official signing of an interim economic partnership agreement, known as an EPA, with countries of the Southern African Development Community that will exclude South Africa.
Taking the credit - how financial services liberalisation fails the poor
16-Mar-2009 WDM
The report looks at how financial services liberalisation, and especially the entry and ongoing presence of foreign banks in the global south, as promoted at the World Trade Organisation and through European bilateral trade deals, leads to the prioritisation of richer customers and larger companies resulting in poorer customers losing out.
Govt gears up to limit free trade deal adversities
16-Mar-2009 Jakarta Post
Indonesia is preparing massive financial and technical support for meat and tropical fruit businesses in a bid to cash in on ASEAN’s free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand.
Who are the cleared advisors that have access to secret ACTA documents?
16-Mar-2009 KEI
According to USTR, all of the members of the 27 USTR trade advisory committees are cleared to see the classified documents in the ACTA negotiations. This blog entry lists more than a hundred, but it is only a partial list of the several hundred lobbyist who are considered "cleared advisors."
TWN preliminary report on FTA/WTO and financial crisis
16-Mar-2009
A new TWN report finds that North-South free trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties and World Trade Organization commitments often contain a number of provisions that can increase the likelihood of a financial crisis and make it more difficult to take the necessary measures to deal with one once it occurs.
`Korea-EU FTA to be concluded next month`
16-Mar-2009 Donga
If ratified, the agreement will create the world’s second-largest free trade zone after NAFTA and create pressure to ratify the US-Korea FTA.
Obama administration says treaty text is state secret
15-Mar-2009 PCWorld
The Office of US Trade Representative (USTR), part of President Barack Obama’s office, has denied a company’s request for information about a secretive anticounterfeiting trade agreement being negotiated, citing national security concerns.