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  • 26-Apr-2013 The Nation
    Thailand: Four sensitive issues studied ahead of FTA talks with EU
    The sensitive issues for Thailand are: the impact of the EU’s plan to end Thailand’s eligibility for the Generalised System of Preferences next year; intellectual-property rights; tariff reductions on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes; and dispute-settlement mechanisms between government and private enterprises.
  • 25-Apr-2013 Infojustice
    Investors’ IP rights unbound: The danger of investment clauses to access to medicines
    Although access to medicines activists have been wise to focus our attention intently on convincing low- and middle-income countries to adopt and use all possible TRIPS-compliant flexibilities and to oppose the TRIPS-plus IP chapters in free trade agreements, we have neglected to interrogate another chapter in free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties that perhaps pose an even greater threat to our collective access to medicines – investment chapters.
  • 25-Apr-2013 DW
    Date set for talks on Asia-Pacific free trade zone
    China and 15 other Asia-Pacific nations have agreed to launch a first round of talks next month aimed at creating one of the world’s largest trading blocs. China is trying to outpace a similar effort by the US.
  • 25-Apr-2013 Folha de S.Paulo
    Brazil admits postponing free trade with Argentina
    The Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Commerce, Fernando Pimentel, suggested that Brazil could postpone the date the auto parts and automobile free trade agreement between Brazil and Argentina will become effective - the scheduled date is July.
  • 25-Apr-2013 AP
    EU lawmakers support free trade deal with US
    European Union lawmakers have voted in favor of starting talks on a wide-ranging free trade agreement with the United States.
  • 25-Apr-2013 Gulf Newws
    New Zealand to ratify free trade agreement with the GCC
    The New Zealand government is likely to ratify a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states within 12 months, a senior official said.
  • 25-Apr-2013 Sunlive
    NZ-China agricultural agreement signed
    NZ Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy has signed a Strategic Plan on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation between New Zealand and China.
  • 25-Apr-2013 Be Your Own Leader
    The return of ACTA: US dictating Canada’s intellectual property laws
    Many assumed that ACTA was dead, but it still remains a top priority for the U.S. and they are attempting to revive the discredited agreement by trying to get the six necessary ratifications for it to come into force.
  • 25-Apr-2013 Washington Post
    Japan’s rice lobby visits Capitol Hill to fight free trade pact
    Rice is a staple food in Japan, but it is also a cultural staple — so much so, say opponents of a 12-nation­ free-trade agreement, that the values learned through rice farming keep the streets of Tokyo safe and the nation stable.
  • 23-Apr-2013 Business Recorder
    ASEAN plans free trade pact with Hong Kong
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will pursue a free trade agreement with Hong Kong, a document obtained by AFP said Tuesday.
  • 22-Apr-2013 Jakarta Post
    Indonesia to kick off CEPA talks with Chile
    Indonesia has agreed to begin talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with Chile, hoping to use the nation as a trade hub in South America.
  • 22-Apr-2013 Jakarta Globe
    South Korea and Indonesia plan to ratify trade pact
    A major agreement aimed at boosting trade and investment ties between South Korea and Indonesia may be ratified before the end of this year, industry minister M.S. Hidayat said in Jakarta on Friday.
  • 22-Apr-2013 Bloomberg
    Trans-Pacific tariff talks expand to include Japan
    Japan will be admitted to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, the existing 11 members of the negotiations said in a statement issued at the weekend after a meeting in Indonesia.
  • 22-Apr-2013 Forbes
    Despite promising start, Taiwan misses free trade deals
    The island known for moving big batches of electronics to world markets is struggling to keep a toehold in Asia politically and economically against rivals that make the same stuff and have more trade deals, writes the business magazine Forbes
  • 22-Apr-2013 DNA
    EU free-trade car ’quota’ buzz has makers in a tizzy
    India’s passenger vehicle industry is in a tizzy over the import quota proposed in the free trade agreement between India and the European Union.
  • 22-Apr-2013 Jakarta Globe
    Between China and America? Real choices facing Indonesia
    Are the RCEP and TPP really competing for members and agenda items?
  • 22-Apr-2013
    Relase IPA Activists that demand to stop trade liberalization!
    Indonesian Police Dept in Surabaya is arrested IPA activists that hold a picket to oppose APEC Trade Minister meeting (20-21 April) and trade liberalizations agenda.
  • 22-Apr-2013 Japan Times
    APEC pushes FTAs in shift toward regional initiative
    The trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum agreed Sunday to promote free-trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region just a day after Japan won permission to negotiate a free-trade pact involving many of its members.
  • 22-Apr-2013 NewsClick
    India-EU FTA: A lose-lose for India
    Newsclick discusses with Biswajit Dhar, Director General of Research and Information System for Developing Countries, the India-EU Free Trade Agreement and its fall-outs.
  • 22-Apr-2013 Trade Arabia
    Importers ‘misusing Bahrain’s FTA with US’
    Importers in Bahrain have been accused of trying to misuse the kingdom’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US to avoid paying taxes, a report said.