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  • 28-Jan-2013
    South Africa and EU deal a blow for Kenya
    An existing trade pact between South Africa and the European Union is presenting a fresh hurdle in negotiations for economic partnership with Kenya.
  • 28-Jan-2013
    Making the right choices
    With imports and exports accounting for nearly half of Chinese economic output last year, trade has become an essential part of its economy and society.
  • 28-Jan-2013 Express Tribune
    Out of the frying pan...into trade liberalisation: SAFTA a disaster for Pakistan’s agriculture sector
    The South Asia Free Trade Agreement (Safta) appears to be a ‘disaster’ for Pakistan’s agricultural sector and is backed only by the industrial lobby.
  • 28-Jan-2013 Diplo News
    Egypt ratifies a Free Trade Agreement with MERCOSUR
    Egypt’s Ambassador delivered the original ratification document of the Arab Republic of Egypt on the Free Trade Agreement signed with the Mercosur on 2/8/2010 to the Secretariat of the organization.
  • 27-Jan-2013
    PHL studying FTA possibility with Taiwan for agri exports
    The Philippines is conducting a feasibility study for a bilateral free trade agreement with Taiwan that would allow the export of farm products to the Taiwanese market.
  • 27-Jan-2013 Reuters
    EU, US on verge of "difficult" free-trade negotiations
    EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht gave his clearest signal yet that Brussels and Washington are ready to embark on the negotiations.
  • 26-Jan-2013
    Chile near free trade pact with Thailand, talking to India
    Chile hopes to sign a free trade agreement with Thailand soon and is seeking to expand a limited one it has with India, as the Andean country looks to deepen its open, export-dependent model, foreign affairs minister Alfredo Moreno said on Saturday.
  • 24-Jan-2013
    Improvisando con Europa
    El Gobierno colombiano decidió poner en vigencia de manera anticipada el Acuerdo Comercial negociado con la Unión Europea, en lugar de esperar la aprobación del Congreso y la revisión de la Corte Constitucional.
  • 24-Jan-2013
    FTA signing with EU ’should be priority’
    The Thai-EU Business Council warned yesterday that Thailand would see its gross domestic product stunted by 1.2 per cent if it does not sign a free-trade agreement (FTA) by 2015 when the European Union’s tax breaks expire.
  • 24-Jan-2013 EurActiv
    Industries pin hopes on imminent EU-US trade talks
    A green light to start talks on a transatlantic free trade agreement (FTA) is likely to come early next month, EurActiv has learned, lifting European industries’ hopes that increased demand from the US will help turn around its fortunes.
  • 24-Jan-2013 Infojustice
    USTR working to develop new text on IP and health in the TPP
    USTR has begun an “internal review of the controversial pharmaceutical patent proposal that U.S. trade officials tabled” earlier in the TPP negotiations.
  • 24-Jan-2013 AllAfrica.com
    Egypt endorses FTA agreement with Mercosur
    Egypt has just endorsed the Free Trade Area agreement signed with the Mercosur (Southern American Common Market) on August 2, 2010, said Deputy Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Nazieh el-Nagari.
  • 23-Jan-2013
    MEP Laima Andrikiene expects the decision on free trade agreement to be reached till November
    Laima Andrikiene welcomed the steady progress in the EU negotiations with Armenia and Georgia and expected that political decisions on the conclusion of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements would be reached later this year
  • 22-Jan-2013
    Arabs agree to establish a free trade zone by 2015
    The agreement to create a customs union to establish a free trade area in 2015 stands out among the results of the Third Summit of Arab Economic and Social Development, which closed here today.
  • 22-Jan-2013
    Further liberalization urged
    The United States is pleased with the pace of the Philippines’ growth but would like to see economic expansion sustained in the long term by further liberalization, a visiting US State Department official yesterday said.
  • 22-Jan-2013
    ‘Prickly’ issues must be resolved before signing EPAs
    Government will continue negotiating with an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) in an effort to resolve the contentious issues before signing the agreement.
  • 22-Jan-2013
    India’s firmer eastward gaze
    India’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( Asean), which kicked off for trade in goods from 2010, is an important building block of its Look East policy, and its efforts to integrate with a wider pan-Asian economic community encompassing China, Japan and Korea.
  • 22-Jan-2013
    What have you done to protect small traders from FDI, court asks Centre
    “Have you got any Foreign Direct Investment or it is just a political gimmick? Has the FDI policy in multibrand retail sector announced by the Centre in October 2012 brought some fruits” the Supreme Court asked Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati on Tuesday.
  • 22-Jan-2013 The Hindu
    BIPA talks put on hold
    In a significant development, the Government of India has ordered a freeze of all Bilateral Investment Protection Agreements (BIPA) negotiations till a review of the model text of BIPA is carried out and completed. This follows a spate of show cause notices on the Government by foreign companies seeking to recover their investments under the agreement.
  • 22-Jan-2013 rabble.ca
    Canada, EU in final push for trade deal; latest investment chapter shows blatant pro-investor bias
    The political trade-off in the CETA negotiations appears to hinge on lower tariffs and higher quota for Canadian meat entering the European market, reports Stuart Trew