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21-Oct-2013 Kyodo
Japan, EU begin 3rd round of free trade talks
Japan and the European Union began their third round of free trade negotiations in Brussels on Monday, aiming to engage in full-fledged discussions on tariffs and other trade barriers. -
21-Oct-2013 The Australian
Mitsubishi boss keen to seal free-trade deal
The chairman of Mitsubishi — a huge investor in Australia’s resource industry — has urged Japan and Australia not to miss the current "window of opportunity" and clinch the long-awaited free-trade agreement. -
21-Oct-2013 Tax News
EU trade ministers back wider ASEAN mandate
The European Commission is to launch negotiations on investment protection with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as part of ongoing free trade talks. -
21-Oct-2013 Huffington Post
CETA: What’s In the Canada-EU free trade deal?
Reporters got access to some CETA documents on Friday, but they were vague and, in the words of the Globe and Mail’s Bill Curry, the documents “don’t list what Canada gave up.” -
21-Oct-2013 TUC
Who regulates best, the US or EU? #TTIP
The US and European trade union movements don’t want to see any weakening of standards through TTIP. Froman and deGucht have said they don’t want that either, but successive trade deals have done precisely that. -
18-Oct-2013 Livemint
FTA between India and EFTA by early next year: Linus Von Castelmur
Swiss envoy says both sides are trying to seal the deal before the general election in India next year -
18-Oct-2013 Economic Times
EU should allow easier entry for Indian professionals to support free trade pact: Icrier
The European Union should allow easier entry and movement of Indian professionals in order to generate support for the free trade pact between the two that’s been under negotiation for the last six years, Indian think tank Icrier said in a study commissioned by the 27-country grouping. -
18-Oct-2013 The Nation
FTA Watch condemns bid to amend Article 190
Thai advocacy group FTA Watch yesterday issued a statement condemning attempts to end legislative scrutiny of negotiations concerning international trade agreements. -
17-Oct-2013 PANG
EPA is no more
In a surprise move this week, the European Union has moved to suspend negotiations for a new economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the islands of the Pacific, ISLANDS BUSINESS has been told. -
17-Oct-2013 Radio New Zealand International
EU reported to have called off Pacific negotiations on EPA
The Solomon Islands government says the European Union has suspended negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement between 14 Pacific Island Countries and the EU - 9 years after its EPA was launched in September, 2004. -
17-Oct-2013 Lexology
Panama, Colombia sign free trade agreement
Panama has signed a free trade agreement with Colombia, making a step forward to join the Pacific Alliance. -
17-Oct-2013 Dow Jones Newswires
China worried about Ecuador move to end bilateral investment treaties
Ecuador’s decision to end bilateral investment treaties with all countries and take disputes to a new regional arbitration body has raised concerns among Chinese investors. -
17-Oct-2013 rabble.ca
Canada-EU trade deal: Sell-out or celebration? Public needs a veto on massive corporate rights treaty
Responding to reports today that Canada and the European Union have concluded negotiations on a massive new corporate rights treaty called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Council of Canadians is demanding that parliament and the public be given an opportunity to review and make changes to the deal, or even to reject it outright, before it can be signed. -
17-Oct-2013 Les Echos
Stephen Harper à Bruxelles pour conclure l’accord de libre-échange Canada-UE (officiel)
Le Premier ministre canadien Stephen Harper se rendra à Bruxelles jeudi en vue de conclure l’accord de libre-échange que le Canada et l’Union européenne négocient depuis plus de quatre ans, a annoncé mercredi soir son porte-parole. -
16-Oct-2013 The National
Conservatives open door to free trade with EU after reaching cheese import deal
Negotiators have agreed to double the amount of European cheese imported into Canada — to around 30,000 tonnes a year — in order to get the Europeans on board. -
16-Oct-2013 Huffington Post
Lose the double standard around foreign investment in Canada
Should the "right" of a foreign corporation to make a profit trump governments’ attempts to create local jobs, improve environmental regulations or establish laws that raise royalty rates? Most Canadians would say no. But that’s what their government is pushing poor countries to accept if they want Canadian investment. -
16-Oct-2013 FT
Japan politicians criticise Shinzo Abe’s trade pact push
“Why should Japan take its own underpants off?” a parliamentarian from rural Toyama prefecture told reporters last week, after a senior Japanese negotiator suggested that Tokyo may have to make concessions over a set of highly protected agricultural products. -
16-Oct-2013 The Diplomat
Can $150 melons boost Japan’s post-TPP agriculture exports?
While Japanese farmers fret that the TPP will cut import tariffs and flood the domestic market with cheap foreign produce, Abe sees the potential for an increase in luxury food exports – specifically pertaining to Japan’s world-class fruit, rice and beef. -
16-Oct-2013 FIS
Anfaco insists on excluding Thai tuna from EU-Thailand FTA
Spain’s National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish and Shellfish (Anfaco Cecopesca) is to once again ask the authorities of the European Union for the exclusion of Thai tuna from the free trade agreement that the European bloc is negotiating with Thailand. -
15-Oct-2013 Sky News
Divisions grow in govt over farm buyouts
Divisions within the Australian government over foreign ownership of farmland appear to be deepening, with Labor accusing the coalition of speaking with two heads about Chinese investment.