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16-Dec-2013 Reuters
Taiwan beefs up regional defences with 2nd phase of free trade zone
Taiwan is building up a free trade zone to counter the threat of being marginalised in the wake of trade deals being negotiated by major economies and regional Asian neighbours (TPP and RCEP). -
16-Dec-2013 AFR
Releasing TPP text early is inconsistent: Robb
"The Australian government agreed to a confidentiality undertaking to prevent the early release of TPP negotiating documents," says current Minister for Trade Andrew Robb -
16-Dec-2013 Hankyoreh
US trade body says it will be difficult for Korea to join TPP negotiations
The Office of the US Trade Representative is demanding that Seoul address four major trade issues before participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). -
15-Dec-2013 BBC
EU halts work on Ukraine trade deal
The European Union has suspended work on a trade and association agreement with Ukraine after failing to get a "clear commitment" from President Viktor Yanukovych to sign it. -
13-Dec-2013 Euractiv
EU-Africa trade partnership negotiations stalled
The upcoming deadline imposed by the European Commission to revise the EU’s preferential trade agreements with former colonies in the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region is raising concern among African countries. -
12-Dec-2013 IP Watch
The EU-Thailand FTA: What fate for access to medicines?
Following the public outcry over the EU’s demands for stringent intellectual property rules that would dramatically raise medicines prices in India, you would expect the EU to think twice about making similar demands in future trade agreements. Yet, this is precisely what is going on now in the negotiations for a free trade agreement between the EU and Thailand. -
12-Dec-2013 Infojustice
Free trade, Gangnam style: The Korea-Australia free trade agreement
On the 5th December 2013, Australia and Korea announced that they had finalised a new free trade agreement. Is it a fair trade fairytale? Or is it a dirty deal done dirt cheap? -
11-Dec-2013 SME Times
Swiss National Council ratifies FTA with China
The lower house of Swiss parliament approved a free trade agreement (FTA) with China Tuesday. -
11-Dec-2013 Jerusalem Post
Israel and Russia to negotiate free-trade agreement
Israel and Russia will soon begin negotiations over a free-trade agreement aimed at significantly increasing the relatively paltry trade numbers between the two countries, government officials said Tuesday. -
11-Dec-2013 Reuters
US Congress could OK trade promotion bill in early 2014, lawmaker says
he Obama administration could secure "fast-track" trade promotion authority from Congress early next year, a leading lawmaker said on Tuesday, handing it the means to secure two big new trade deals. -
11-Dec-2013 Financial Chronicle
EU-US free trade pact cause of concern for Indian pharma firms
There are apprehensions that TTIP would prevent Indian pharma companies to come to market with the same products - they would need to pass through several rounds of additional tests. As a result, prices will move up significantly. -
10-Dec-2013 GRAIN
Food safety in the EU-US trade agreement: going outside the box
The transantlantic trade deal’s agenda for food safety if all about reducing hoops for agribusiness. Not only would this hurt Europeans, whose clearly higher standards would be dragged down, but it would affect many other countries’ food producers and consumers, since any deal reached between Washington and Brussels will set a new international benchmark. -
10-Dec-2013 Mainchi
TPP ministerial session ends without final agreement
Japan and the United States, which have been in bitter conflict over thorny issues including Japanese tariffs on farm products as well as auto trade, failed to fill the gaps during the key session in Singapore, hampering the whole negotiation. -
10-Dec-2013 The Africa Report
Canada - Africa: Aggressively negotiating treaties
Canada’s Minister of international trade, Ed Fast explains the country’s strategic shift to link development aid with private sector investments. -
9-Dec-2013 IATP
Webinar: The promises and perils of proposed US-EU trade deal for food and agriculture
On the occasion the third round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) invite you to join them for a webinar on the agreement’s potential impacts on agriculture in the US and EU. -
9-Dec-2013 IT News
2nd Wikileaks release: US refusing to budge on TPP issues
A new set of leaked documents from the latest round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations show large differences remain between the 12 nations trying to hammer out a trade agreement. -
9-Dec-2013 ANI
India-UAE to sign bilateral investment protection agreement
India and the UAE will next week sign an agreement to promote and protect bilateral investments. -
9-Dec-2013 PTI
India-EU free trade pact not likely in 3-4 years: Think tank
India and the European Union are unlikely to ink a free trade pact in the next three to four years, a Belgium-based independent think tank, the European Centre for International Political Economy, has said. Echoing similar views, an MEP said, "It all depends on whether the Indian Parliament gets to pass the Insurance Bill in the Winter Session." -
9-Dec-2013 Euractiv
EU brewers want ’unfair’ beer tax removed through TTIP
European brewers last week urged EU negotiators to put a removal of taxes on European brewers, from which their American competitors are exempt, on the table in the free-trade negotiations with the US. -
9-Dec-2013 China Post
Taipei-Manila ECA study almost complete: envoy
A feasibility study on signing an Economic Cooperation Agreement (ECA) between Taiwan and the Philippines is nearing completion, the Philippines’ top envoy to Taiwan said recently.