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  • 12-Mar-2013 Jiji Press
    Hokkaido farmers rally against Japan’s entry to TPP talks
    Some 1,500 farmers in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido held a mass rally on Monday against the country joining Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations.
  • 12-Mar-2013 Tax News
    Call to speed up African Tripartite FTA negotiations
    The Government of Zambia has called on the three African regional economic communities (RECs) — the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) — to speed up their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.
  • 11-Mar-2013 3News
    America will sign the TPP - John Key
    New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is confident America will sign one of the world’s largest free trade deals, because its economic hands are tied. “How on earth, if you’re Obama, do you actually stimulate the economy and get jobs? The only way through it for him is basically through exporting, and the fastest way to do that in volume is in Asia. That’s why we think Americans will actually do the deal,” he says.
  • 11-Mar-2013 The Nation
    Businesses want TPP to be concluded
    Business representatives from around the Asia-Pacific region, gathered for the current 16th round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Singapore, urged negotiators to show flexibility and narrow the range of differences so that the talks can be brought to conclusion as soon as possible.
  • 11-Mar-2013 KEI
    EU-India FTA - IP chapter (draft 2013)
  • 11-Mar-2013 DNP+
    Indian negotiators under pressure to give in to European Commission demands
    Civil society and PLHIV networks across the world need to support us in this unequal and conclusive battle against the unfair demands of the European Commission on IP enforcement and investment standards.
  • 10-Mar-2013 AFP
    Ecuador plans legal challenge on foreign investment, oil
    Ecuador’s president on Saturday said he planned to challenge several bilateral investment treaties after the South American country was ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages by overseas courts.
  • 10-Mar-2013 rabble
    Canadian meat producers don’t need CETA, aren’t filling existing export quotas: NFU
    Canadian beef exporters are using less than half of their tariff-free quota access to the European market and pork exporters come nowhere close to meeting their allowances, says the National Farmers Union this week. The data completely undermines the Harper government’s — and the meat sector — case for CETA, which appears to hinge on increased meat quotas for Canadian producers.
  • 8-Mar-2013 China Daily
    China plans study for free trade deal with Europe
    China and the European Union could start investment talks in the coming months, the Chinese ambassador to the EU said. China has also submitted a proposal on launching a feasibility study on a free-trade agreement with the EU.
  • 8-Mar-2013 New York Times
    Europe’s carmakers look forward to US trade pact
    Prospects for a trade pact have brightened the spirits of automakers along with many other types of Continental companies. And not only because it might make it easier for their products to compete in America’s giant consumer market.
  • 8-Mar-2013 NZ Herald
    Colombian trade coup a feather in Key’s sombrero
    The smile on John Key’s face widened as broad as the sombrero that Juan Manuel Santos had just given him, when the Colombian President said, "We would love to have an FTA with New Zealand when they are ready to start negotiations."
  • 8-Mar-2013 VNA
    Vietnam, EU look to conclude FTA negotiations
    Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung wants to speed up negotiations on the free trade agreement between Vietnam and the EU.
  • 7-Mar-2013 Radio New Zealand
    Colombia keen on free trade deal with NZ
    Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos says he would like to negotiate a free trade agreement with New Zealand.
  • 7-Mar-2013 Financial Times
    Thai PM puts free trade agreement on the table with EU
    If concluded successfully, an FTA would kick in just as Thailand’s cushy preferential trade treatment under the EU’s generalised system of preferences expires in 2015.
  • 7-Mar-2013 Business Standard
    India needs a better deal from trade pacts
    If India is not deriving much benefit from its bilateral and regional trade deals, why is so much negotiating capital, which is limited, being invested on these?
  • 6-Mar-2013 DW
    Merkel, Yudhoyono call for free trade agreement
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a free-trade agreement between the European Union and Indonesia. This, she said, could be a first step towards a wider trade agreement.
  • 6-Mar-2013
    Ambitious EU-Philippines FTA could erode people’s rights and undermine development
    In the wake of recent pronouncements from the Philippine government of its proposal to begin bilateral free trade negotiations with the European Union this month, the EU-ASEAN FTA network expresses its serious concern that the proposed agreement would be too ambitious for the Philippines, erode people’s rights and undermine development.
  • 6-Mar-2013
    EU-Thailand FTA negotiations: What fate for access to medicines?
    Health Action International Europe, Oxfam and Action against AIDS Germany have serious concerns over the repercussions the EU-Thailand FTA will have on access to medicines in Thailand and the region.
  • 5-Mar-2013 MSF
    As clock ticks toward Trans-Pacific trade pact deadline, US must end stall tactics on access to medicines
    As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières calls on the US government to end its stall tactics and revise its proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries.
  • 5-Mar-2013 The Diplomat
    A Japan–EU free trade deal?
    Amid talk of a super, transatlantic free trade zone, the eurozone now has a new potential partner: Japan. But, in light of Tokyo’s slow progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), can the Abe government match competitor South Korea in inking a trade pact with Brussels?