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4-Mar-2013
Jakarta Post
Indonesian firms cannot compete with lower prices offered by foreign rivals in their home market.
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4-Mar-2013
Bangkok Post
About 1,500 members of the groups under the umbrella network of FTA Watch gathered outside Government House yesterday to voice their concerns.
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3-Mar-2013
ANSAmed
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.
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2-Mar-2013
BBC
Some experts in Ottawa think that the launch of EU-US trade negotiations could derail the EU-Canada talks
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1-Mar-2013
ABC
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.
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1-Mar-2013
Bangkok Post
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.
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1-Mar-2013
Newsroom Panama
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.
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28-Feb-2013
FTA Watch
Civil society groups based in Thailand kick off their campaign to monitor the EU-Thailand FTA negotiations
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28-Feb-2013
Bernama
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.
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28-Feb-2013
AFP
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.
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28-Feb-2013
Tico Times
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.
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28-Feb-2013
Andina
The European Union has confirmed that its free trade agreement with Peru will be provisionally applied starting on March 1, 2013.
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27-Feb-2013
La propuesta de liberalización de la Alianza del Pacífico no genera nuevas oportunidades comerciales para Colombia.
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27-Feb-2013
World Stage
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.
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27-Feb-2013
Asia Briefing
Backgrounder from Asia Briefing
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27-Feb-2013
ADB
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.
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27-Feb-2013
GMA
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.
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27-Feb-2013
Global Times
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?
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26-Feb-2013
Be Your Own Leader
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.
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26-Feb-2013
CNA
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.