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15-Mar-2013 AFP
EU-Canada free-trade agreement could lay groundwork for larger accord with US
If Europe can secure a free trade deal with Canada, it would lay the groundwork for a planned, much larger accord with the United States, French and Canadian leaders said Thursday. -
15-Mar-2013 The Nation
Thai-Chilean FTA wins parliamentary endorsement
Thailand’s Parliament yesterday endorsed the Thai-Chilean free trade agreement, which will take effect in the fourth quarter -
15-Mar-2013 AFP
Japan’s Abe to announce joining trade pact talks
Japan will announce its participation in talks to forge a US-backed free trade deal on Friday, an official said, giving the pact much-needed economic clout, but possibly angering farmers at home. -
14-Mar-2013 Yonhap
US ambassador says renegotiation of free trade deal with Seoul possible
The US ambassador to Seoul raised the possibility of making changes to the free trade agreement with South Korea, saying a renegotiation would be possible if South Korea wants to do so. -
14-Mar-2013 AHRC
Indians in the Northeast protest the European Union Free Trade Agreement
The Asian Human Rights Commission has issued an urgent appeal to support protestors against the EU-India FTA and needs your help -
14-Mar-2013
Mar-2013: Relaunch of bilaterals.org
The team behind bilaterals.org is very pleased to announce that we have just completed a major cycle of updates to the site, including the launch of our Facebook and Twitter accounts. -
14-Mar-2013 The Nation
UK agri firms aim to cash in on EU-ASEAN FTA
British enterprises, particularly from the agriculture and agri-technology sectors, are expected to take advantage of the upcoming free-trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Thailand. -
14-Mar-2013
Relaunch of bilaterals.org
Relaunch of bilaterals.org The team behind bilaterals.org is very pleased to announce that we have just completed a major cycle of updates to the site, including the launch of our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Read more... -
12-Mar-2013 New Medical
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: an interview with Judit Rius, Médecins Sans Frontières
The TPP negotiators are making decisions that will affect at least 600 million people, and potentially hundreds of millions more, in complete secrecy, and this is unacceptable. -
12-Mar-2013 LiveMint
India: Insurance bill now holds the key to FTA with EU
The much-delayed free trade agreement between India and the European Union may finally get through if the government is able to amend the law to allow greater foreign investment in Indian insurance firms. -
12-Mar-2013
Farmers rally in Tokyo against Japan’s entry into TPP talks
Japan’s largest farm group rallied Tuesday in Tokyo to protest against the government’s entry into the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks. -
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)
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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.