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  • 4-Mar-2013 Jakarta Post
    Local firms reel under free trade deals
    Indonesian firms cannot compete with lower prices offered by foreign rivals in their home market.
  • 4-Mar-2013 Bangkok Post
    Thai civic groups warn against pact with EU
    About 1,500 members of the groups under the umbrella network of FTA Watch gathered outside Government House yesterday to voice their concerns.
  • 3-Mar-2013 ANSAmed
    EU-Morocco: Barroso launches talks for free trade agreement
    European Commission president José Manuel Barroso was in Rabat on Friday to launch talks for an EU-Morocco free trade agreement. The decision may end up as a major headache for Brussels, however, as the issue of relations with Morocco is a highly sensitive one within some Member States and the European Parliament itself, where the rights of the Saharawi people of the Western Sahara are defended.
  • 2-Mar-2013 BBC
    Canada worries about US-EU free trade
    Some experts in Ottawa think that the launch of EU-US trade negotiations could derail the EU-Canada talks
  • 1-Mar-2013 ABC
    Australian-US alliance a factor in Chinese investment decisions
    The growing size and value of China’s investments in Australia makes the case for a bilateral investment treaty increasingly urgent, according to a leading China expert.
  • 1-Mar-2013 Bangkok Post
    EU trade talks offer poor deal
    Should we trade poor people’s lives with trade benefits for agro-industry corporations? This question has been posed by civic groups to the Yingluck Shinawatra government concerning the FTA negotiations between Thailand and the EU. It is not the only question that needs to be answered, however.
  • 1-Mar-2013 Newsroom Panama
    Panama and Colombia to restart FTA talks
    Panama and Colombia are about to restart talks on a free trade agreement From March 11-15 the sixth round of negotiations will take place In Medellin, Colombia.
  • 28-Feb-2013 FTA Watch
    Civil society campaign kick-off to scrutinize the Thailand-EU FTA negotiation
    Civil society groups based in Thailand kick off their campaign to monitor the EU-Thailand FTA negotiations
  • 28-Feb-2013 Bernama
    Thai, the Philippines keen to join TPP talks
    Thailand and the Philippines are among countries that have recently expressed an interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) bandwagon with the other 11 stakeholders. US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez said the matter had been the subject of further discussion on his recent visit to both countries.
  • 28-Feb-2013 AFP
    US-Europe free trade pact won’t affect TPP: US
    A proposed US-Europe free-trade pact is unlikely to affect Washington’s efforts to negotiate a similar agreement with Asia-Pacific nations, a senior US trade official said Thursday.
  • 28-Feb-2013 Tico Times
    Costa Rican lawmakers approve free trade agreement with Mexico
    Costa Rica already had a free trade agreement with Mexico, in force since January 1995, which now is unified with the rest of Central American countries.
  • 28-Feb-2013 Andina
    EU confirms Peru FTA comes into force March 1
    The European Union has confirmed that its free trade agreement with Peru will be provisionally applied starting on March 1, 2013.
  • 27-Feb-2013
    ¿Alianza o desacuerdo del Pacífico?
    La propuesta de liberalización de la Alianza del Pacífico no genera nuevas oportunidades comerciales para Colombia.
  • 27-Feb-2013 World Stage
    West Africa warned not to approach trade negotiations with EU blindly
    A senior official of Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has warned West Africa sub-region against entering into trade agreement with the European Union blindly.
  • 27-Feb-2013 Asia Briefing
    ASEAN-India Free Trade Area briefing
    Backgrounder from Asia Briefing
  • 27-Feb-2013 ADB
    In search of free trade in Asia
    Intra-Asian trade is rising and so is the number of Asia’s free-trade agreements. Join ADB trade experts Ramesh Subramaniam and Jayant Menon in a live discussion.
  • 27-Feb-2013 GMA
    DTI officials to prod EU on free trade pact
    Philippine Department of Trade and Industry officials will likely confer the European Union early March on moving forward the ongoing process to forge a free trade agreement that will give the Philippines better access to the world’s single largest market.
  • 27-Feb-2013 Global Times
    China must brace for impact of possible EU-US free trade agreement
    China could still have certain advantages even after the establishment of a US-EU FTA. The question is: how to maintain and create new competitive advantages?
  • 26-Feb-2013 Be Your Own Leader
    US-EU trade deal is the foundation for a new global economic order
    There are concerns that the US could use these talks to push the EU to loosen its restrictions on genetically modified crops and foods. In addition, the deal might serve as a backdoor means to implement ACTA which was rejected by the European Parliament last year.
  • 26-Feb-2013 CNA
    Premier vows to keep ban on US pork containing ractopamine
    Taiwan’s Premier Jiang Yi-hua said Monday that the ban on US pork containing leanness-enhancing drugs will "definitely" not be lifted while he is in office. Jiang was speaking two weeks before the issue is likely to be put on the agenda of an important round of trade talks between Taiwan and the United States.