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China, Peru launch FTA talks
11-Sep-2007 People’s Daily
Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Friday and the two agreed to launch bilateral free trade area (FTA) negotiations.
EU-Asean FTA negotiations unlikely to succeed, says academician
11-Sep-2007 Bernama
A successful free trade agreement between the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is unlikely because the Asean nations are unwilling to consider tackling the non-tariff and regulatory barriers, European Centre for International Political Economy’s co-director Razeen Sally said
Jane Kelsey - Critical overview of APEC’s agenda
11-Sep-2007 Scoop
The objective of the neoliberal camp is to link together the tangle of FTAs that is emerging in the region into a grand Asia Pacific FTA.
Solon seeks probe of 31 other ’ZTEs’ with Chinese firms
11-Sep-2007 Pinoy Vote
Aside from the controversial ZTE deal, the Philippine government has entered into at least 31 other “questionable" investment agreements with corporations in China, Akbayan party-list Rep. Ana Theresia Hontiveros said. "Like JPEPA, no one has seen the content of the deals and the government is refusing to divulge their details to the public."
Iran ready for FTA talks with PGCC
11-Sep-2007 Press TV
Tehran is ready to hold talks with the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council on a free trade pact.
Imports up, exports down one year after Korea-EFTA FTA
11-Sep-2007 Korea Times
A year after a trade deal between Korea and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) went into effect last September, Korea’s largest trade group said that imports from the four-nation bloc hiked while exports dipped heavily.
Squeezed: The real cost of free trade in the Asia-Pacific
10-Sep-2007 Squeezed
Filmed in Thailand and The Philippines in July 2007, Squeezed tells the story of how free trade agreements and globalisation are changing the lives of millions of people living in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fugitive’s election muddles trade deal prospects
8-Sep-2007 The Hill
Advocates of a US-Panama free trade deal have a new headache: Panama has just elected an official wanted for arrest in the U.S. for allegedly killing an American soldier.
UNCTAD warns poor countries on free trade deals
6-Sep-2007 Afrique en ligne
Though preferential trade agreements (PTAs) may offer transitory gains in terms of market access and higher foreign direct investment, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has cautioned developing countries to be careful before entering into such deals.
Why is our trade policy benefitting tax cheats?
6-Sep-2007 AlterNet
The pending US trade agreement with Panama isn’t really about trade. It’s about foreign investor rights, money laundering, and tax dodging.
PACER: Islands could lose $10m anually in revenue
6-Sep-2007 Islands Business
Some Pacific island countries stand to lose up to US$10 million annually in revenue due to trade liberalisation under the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations, according to a report commissioned by the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum
Open letter to the Prime Minister of India on the Indo-US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture
6-Sep-2007
Given the interest generated with regard to the US-India nuclear deal, it is time to express our concerns on the US-India Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, too, and not let it be implemented in a business-as-usual attitude.
Costa Rica: Indígenas reclaman consulta sobre Convenio de Obtenciones Vegetales
6-Sep-2007
Con un recurso de amparo ante la Sala Constitucional, los pueblos indígenas reclaman nuevamente su derecho a ser consultados debidamente sobre el Convenio de la Unión para la Protección de Obtenciones Vegetales (UPOV 91).
’Fast track’ Aust-Korea trade agreement: NFF
5-Sep-2007 North Queensland Register
A new study reveals Australian agricultural and food exports to Korea could be slashed by 12% by 2030, in real terms, should Korea and the US ratify their free trade agreement.
Philippines wants fishing agreement in S. China Sea
5-Sep-2007 Reuters
The Philippines wants an agreement to allow free fishing in disputed waters of the South China Sea
Draft EU-Pacific EPA (Aug 2007)
3-Sep-2007
US reassumes its dirty war against Nicaragua
1-Sep-2007 Granma International
Ortega continues to condemn the destabilization plans on the part of the government in Washington, and in the last few weeks has attacked the Free Trade Agreement signed by his country with the United States
Hundreds of Malaysians protest against Free Trade Agreement
1-Sep-2007 SWO
On Sunday 26 August more than 500 people staged a strong anti US-FTA protest in the centre of Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. Most of the protesters were farmers from the northern rice-bowl state of Kedah, or workers and urban settlers.
Japan digs its claws into biodiversity through FTAs
31-Aug-2007 GRAIN
The Japanese government is increasingly using free trade agreements (FTAs) to tighten corporate control over seeds and other forms of biodiversity that are crucial to food, agriculture and medicine. Two such deals sealed this month with Chile and Indonesia put Japan in the big league of nations using bilateral deals to make seed-saving on the farm a thing of the past.
Pacific ACP countries express deep concern at EU trade deal proposal
31-Aug-2007 The Pacific Islands Forum and its Secretariat
Pacific trade officials and legal experts have expressed their disappointment and deep concern at the draft text proposed by the European Commission for an Economic Partnership Agreement covering trade in goods, trade in services, fisheries, investment and development cooperation.