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  • 1-Apr-2013
    Seoul says FTA with Turkey will take effect in May
    South Korea’s free trade agreement (FTA) with Turkey will go into effect in May, opening the door for the two nations to expand bilateral trade and boost economic cooperation, the Seoul government said Monday.
  • 30-Mar-2013
    RI, South Korea aim to seal CEPA at year’s end
    Indonesia and South Korea have agreed to continue talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA), aiming to conclude at the end of this year a deal that will help boost bilateral trade to US$100 billion by 2020.
  • 30-Mar-2013
    Programs to train foreign nurses still falling short
    With its rapidly aging population, Japan will need to increasingly rely on help provided by foreign health care workers.
  • 30-Mar-2013
    EU FTA: Cars may not see sharp cut in customs duty
    In a move that could spell relief for the domestic auto industry, India may not offer the European Union (EU) a sharp customs duty cut to 10-30 per cent for imported premium cars as previously envisaged under the upcoming free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 29-Mar-2013
    Vietnam, Customs Union kick off FTA talks
    Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board Viktor Borisovich Khristenko, on March 28, officially launched negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
  • 29-Mar-2013 S2B Network
    EU-US FTA (TTIP) - EU negotiating mandate (draft Mar 2013)
    On 13 March 2013, the EU Commission adopted a recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations on a comprehensive trade and investment agreement, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, between the EU and the US
  • 29-Mar-2013 China Daily
    Long line for big free-trade club
    What is behind the current eagerness to sign free-trade agreements considering that the European Union and the United States also have their own behemoth in sight and what does China have to gain or lose from them?
  • 29-Mar-2013 CNBC
    India-EU FTA may be in jeopardy if April 15 meeting fails
    The future of the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and EU will now depend on a meeting between commerce minister Anand Sharma and EU trade commissioner Karl De Gucht at Brussels on April 15.
  • 29-Mar-2013 AP
    Closing free talks with deal to be harder than opening negotiations for SKorea, China, Japan
    Progress toward a free trade zone that would be the world’s third largest could easily be interrupted by any flare-up in political tensions.
  • 29-Mar-2013 Be Your Own Leader
    Final Push for a Canada-EU CETA and the Coming NAFTA-EU Free Trade Zone
    Just like any of the other so-called next-generation trade and investment deals, CETA is based on the failed NAFTA model with the same false promises. These secretive and binding international agreements are not really about trade, but are in fact designed to reshape regulatory and policy frameworks to further increase the rights of corporations and investors.
  • 29-Mar-2013 KEI
    EU-India FTA - IP chapter text (draft, date unknown)
    Negotiating text on intellectual property for the EU-India FTA. It does not include Article 6 (patents) or have any text for Article 9 (GIs). Date unknown.
  • 28-Mar-2013
    Moldova can sign free trade agreement with EU in no less than year
    An agreement on Moldova’s admission to a free trade zone with the European Union (DCFTA) will be signed no sooner than a year’s time, Moldova’s Economy Minister Valeriu Lazar said at a Wednesday press conference.
  • 27-Mar-2013
    New hospital in Shenzhen fails to impress Cepa critics
    Critics of Hong Kong’s free-trade deal with the mainland maintained their reservations about the scheme as the first wholly Hong Kong-owned hospital in Shenzhen opened yesterday.
  • 27-Mar-2013
    India-SACU PTA talks likely to conclude this year
    India and South African nations are expected to conclude a preferential trade agreement by the end of this year, aimed at reducing tariffs on certain items traded between the two sides.
  • 27-Mar-2013
    Indian pharma sector fears India-European Union FTA could imperil local industry
    Drugmakers and healthcare activists are worried that the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is in the works, may contain a provision that could imperil local industry and have urged the government to keep patent infringement issues out of FTAs.
  • 27-Mar-2013 Daily Yomiuri
    TPP declaration fuels other talks / European nations grow more eager to reach trade deals with Japan
    Shinzo Abe’s recent announcement that Japan aims to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations has sparked life into other trade talks Japan has aimed to start, with those for an economic partnership agreement with the European Union the latest example.
  • 27-Mar-2013 Business Day
    Government moves to protect rooibos in EU — eight years on
    A French company’s attempt to claim "rooibos" as its own intellectual property has galvanised the South African government into action to protect the term under its talks with Brussels over the EU-South Africa EPA.
  • 27-Mar-2013 Reuters
    See you in court: Russians may sue over Cyprus losses
    Russian businesses and banks that face losses from the European Union’s bailout of Cyprus are considering legal action but may have a hard time making a case, say lawyers who are combing through treaties find strategies to recover funds.
  • 27-Mar-2013 China Daily
    Experts call for BRICS free trade pact
    "BRICS should consider proposing a free trade agreement at the summit, regardless of whether it’s feasible right now," said Wang Junwen, chairman of the China Association of International Trade.
  • 27-Mar-2013 Times of India
    Amul requests for a relook at EU-India FTA
    India’s largest dairy co-operative - Amul - has requested the commerce ministry to relook at the EU-India Free Trade Agreement.