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  • 28-Jun-2013 Tax News
    Canada, India conclude latest EPA talks
    Canada and India have concluded an eighth round of talks toward a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with the the Canadian Government saying that it has identified core economic opportunities in India in the energy, agriculture, infrastructure and education sectors.
  • 28-Jun-2013 This is Africa
    Mozambique and Japan pen investment treaty
    Japan signs its first bilateral investment treaty with a sub-Saharan African country, aimed at increased Japanese investment flows into Mozambique’s infrastructure, agriculture and agri-processing and sectors.
  • 28-Jun-2013 Xinhua
    China, ROK agree to push for completion of free trade pact
    China and Korea, during talks held Thursday between Presidents Xi Jinping and Park Geun-hye, agreed to push for the completion of a bilateral free trade agreement.
  • 28-Jun-2013 Reuters
    Australia’s Rudd urges China to act on trade deal
    Australia’s newly reinstalled Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged China - the country’s largest trading partner - to conclude the stalled bilateral free trade deal
  • 28-Jun-2013 BusinessWorld
    Free trade with Switzerland seen
    A possible free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and Switzerland may push through as the two countries are set to sign a separate agreement creating a commission to lower tariffs and increase trade.
  • 27-Jun-2013 Reuters
    Ecuador waives US trade rights over Edward Snowden asylum request
    Ecuador said it was waiving preferential rights under a US trade agreement to demonstrate its principled approach to the asylum request of former American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
  • 27-Jun-2013 Le Courrier d’Espagne
    Le Honduras et le Pérou font un pas vers un traité de libre échange
    Le Honduras et le Pérou font un pas vers la signature d’un Traité de libre échange en créant un conseil patronal pour développer les relations commerciales entre les deux pays.
  • 27-Jun-2013 Dow Jones Newswires
    TPP talks likely to drag on until spring
    The talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact will likely stretch on until April or May 2014, with disagreements over tariffs and other key issues hampering progress, the Nikkei reported in its Wednesday evening edition.
  • 27-Jun-2013 China Post
    President Ma reiterates hope to join TPP and RCEP
    President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday reiterated the administration’s hope to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), in order to allow Taiwan to effectively take part in regional economic integration.
  • 27-Jun-2013 Borneo Post
    TPP to open up new market opportunities and horizons for Malaysians, says FMM
    The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) is of the view that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) would open up new market opportunities and horizons for Malaysians to take advantage of the international marketplace, says FMM president Tan Sri Yong Poh Kon.
  • 27-Jun-2013 Yonhap
    Sixth round of Korea-China FTA negotiations to be held July 2-4
    South Korea and China will hold a fresh round of negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) early next month, the Seoul government said Tuesday.
  • 27-Jun-2013 Yonhap
    Trade commission recognizes damage from Korea-EU FTA
    South Korea’s trade commission has recognized damage to a local company from the country’s bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union, the government said Thursday.
  • 26-Jun-2013 ODG
    Impunity Inc.
    Through three case studies, "Impunity Inc." aims to provide inputs for reflection on the “super-rights” and “super-powers” of transnational corporations.
  • 25-Jun-2013 MITI
    MITI brief on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
    Briefing paper from Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry as it prepares to host the next round of TPP negotiations on July 15-25 in Kota Kinabalu
  • 25-Jun-2013 NVO News
    Japan, EU begin second free trade talks
    Japan and the European Union began, in Tokyo on Monday, the second round of negotiations on a bilateral free-trade pact aimed at stimulating economies on both sides.
  • 25-Jun-2013 Taiwan Today
    Taipei, Beijing ink services trade pact
    Taiwan and mainland China concluded the Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement June 21 in Shanghai, ushering in a new era of bilateral business ties and strengthening the island’s bid for greater regional economic integration.
  • 25-Jun-2013
    ICSID and Latin America: Criticisms, withdrawals and regional alternatives
    Latin American states are the only ones in the world that have decided to withdraw from the ICSID Convention. It is also the only region in the world considering the necessity to find an alternative to ICSID mechanism.
  • 25-Jun-2013 4-Traders
    EFTA states sign free trade agreement with Costa Rica and Panama
    Ministers from the Member States of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) - Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland - and from Costa Rica and Panama have signed a Free Trade Agreement today.
  • 25-Jun-2013 PTI
    John Kerry in India, pushes for bilateral investment treaty
    Setting the tone for the 4th round of Indo-US strategic dialogue taking place in New Delhi, US Secretary of State John Kerry pushed for a bilateral investment treaty to ’bolster’ investor confidence in India and expressed concerns over trade barriers.
  • 25-Jun-2013
    New alliance on problems with investment treaties
    Leaders of several Latin American countries have set up a new coalition to coordinate actions to face the growing number of international legal suits being taken against governments by transnational companies.