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Panama ratifies free trade deal with US
12-Jul-2007 News Channel 7
Panama’s legislature ratified a free trade agreement with the United States on Wednesday amid protests by hundreds of leftists and farmers opposed to the deal.
Kaeseong goods expected to be problem at EU FTA talks
12-Jul-2007 Chosun Ilbo
Korea’s chief envoy to free trade talks with the European Union is cautioning against being overly optimistic about having products made at an industrial park in North Korea’s Kaeseong included in the bilateral trade deal.
Singapore says it expects to conclude free trade agreement with China by 2008: report
12-Jul-2007 IHT
Singapore’s deputy prime minister said the city-state expects to conclude a free trade agreement with China next year, a newspaper reported Thursday.
EU FTA to focus on manufacturing sector: official
12-Jul-2007 Yonhap
The ongoing free trade pact talks with the European Union (EU) will be centered on the extent of liberalization of the manufacturing sector, a senior Korean government official said Thursday.
Indo-Russian JSG proposes to boost bilateral trade
11-Jul-2007
The Indo-Russian Joint Study Group (JSG) has finalised its report proposing a set of recommendations to boost bilateral trade to US$ 10 billion in two years, according to officials.
Price to pay for trade liberalization
11-Jul-2007
The Bahamas stands to lose just under ten percent of tariff revenue as a result of the complete trade liberalization with the hemisphere and the United States, according to a report on Caribbean development in the 21st century compiled by the Caribbean Country Management Unit of the World Bank.
India should not reduce farm import duties for FTAs: Jairam Ramesh
11-Jul-2007
India should not allow reductions in import duties on agriculture under its free trade agreements (FTAs), Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday.
New Indo-Canadian CEO group talks free trade
11-Jul-2007
On the heels of an investment agreement between the two countries, Indian and Canadian business leaders are studying the feasibility of a free trade agreement, with the results expected by the end of the year, India’s high commissioner said.
Peru unions strike US trade deal
11-Jul-2007
The Peruvian National Federation of Mining and Metallurgical Workers announced that they will adhere to the general strike of state teachers demanding salaries and against the Free Trade Treaty (FTT) with the United States.
Trade talk deadline closer, but EU and SADC far apart
11-Jul-2007
Trade negotiations between Southern Africa and the European Union are progressing slowly and some sectors might not even be agreed on by the end of the year, when the signing of the trade agreement is to take place.
Palau president doubts free trade push
11-Jul-2007
Palau’s president, Tommy Remengesau, believes the Pacific Islands Forum - comprising 16 independent countries of the Pacific including Australia and New Zealand - is introducing free trade into the region in the wrong way.
NZ-China trade deal said 2 years away
11-Jul-2007
New Zealand hopes to wrap up a comprehensive free trade agreement with China by mid-2009 — a year later than scheduled — Prime Minister Helen Clark said Tuesday.
Sarkozy tests the Mediterranean Union in the Maghreb
10-Jul-2007
The head of state is making his first trip outside of Europe to Algeria and Tunisia. Nicolas Sarkozy flies this morning to Algiers, where he will have a meeting and working lunch with the president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, before going to Tunis.
Tough FTA rules to curb trade diversions
10-Jul-2007
Being on an overdrive to ink several free trade agreements (FTA) following the recent collapse of the WTO talks, India is now mulling tightening standards on rules of origin (ROOs) of goods by including new ‘product-specific’ norms.
Goff moots idea of regional free trade deal
10-Jul-2007
Trade minister Phil Goff has floated the prospect of a regional free trade deal comprising the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Brunei and South Korea.
Bush administration, industry meet as Panama, Peru trade deals delayed
10-Jul-2007
Senior members of the Bush administration and several US industry representatives were meeting today in Washington in order to devise a plan under which stalled free trade agreements (FTAs) with Panama and Peru might be quickly approved by Congress.
Don’t sign the EPAs - coalition tells African gov’ts
10-Jul-2007
As December draws closer and intense pressure by the European Union (EU) is mounting on African governments to sign the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), African youth have their leaders not to sign.
Kenya could lose out on a new trade deal with EU
9-Jul-2007
Kenya is among 75 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries currently engaged in negotiations with the EU for a new trade framework under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). As time is running fast, we need to examine the issues.
S. Korea-U.S. FTA causes drop in beef, pork prices: gov’t
9-Jul-2007
Beef and pork prices in South Korea fell year-on-year in the second quarter for the first time in eight years, apparently due to the proposed free trade pact with the United States, the government said Monday.
Switzerland and China eye possible free trade deal
9-Jul-2007
Swiss Economic Affairs Minister Doris Leuthard and Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai pledged in Beijing to study the feasibility of a free trade deal.