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9-Oct-2012
CNN
Mitt Romney stated Monday that US President Barack Obama "has not signed one new free-trade agreement in the past four years." "I’ll reverse that failure," the Republican presidential nominee said. But is his assertion true?
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9-Oct-2012
SMH
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has used rising concern in Japan about food security to renew the push to finalise a Free Trade Agreement.
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9-Oct-2012
Dow Jones
Ecuador’s Attorney General said Monday his office is preparing the legal basis to contest an international court ruling that ordered the country to pay $1.77 billion plus interest to Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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8-Oct-2012
Trade and Industry Minister, Ms Hannah Tetteh has called all stakeholders in the West African sub-region to show extra commitment to the integration agenda and the implementation of various ECOWAS protocols.
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8-Oct-2012
The negotiations on a free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union will be intensified after the election to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said at a hot line in "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine" newspaper, the Cabinet’s press service informs.
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8-Oct-2012
Julia Gillard announced last night that it was "time to seal the deal" with Japan on what would be Australia’s biggest bilateral free trade agreement.
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8-Oct-2012
Veteran business and academic figures are warning free trade agreement negotiations between Australia and Japan are now a matter of urgency as challenges from the Asian Century emerge.
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8-Oct-2012
AIE Network
Our recent ADBI Working Paper assessed the scope and depth of the 20 Asia-Latin America FTAs using an inter-disciplinary approach blending concepts in international law with international economics.
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8-Oct-2012
TWN
The damaging effects of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and the investment chapters of North-South Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were highlighted at a World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum held last week.
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7-Oct-2012
Mr Tetteh Hormeku, Head of Programmes, Third World Network - Ghana, has urged African governments to be wary of the European Union’s agenda to perpetuate and deepen liberalization through the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).
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7-Oct-2012
There’s no denying that foreign trade has been the biggest drag on Canada’s economic performance in recent years. Our exports (in real terms) are smaller than way back in 2000, and our balance of payments is mired in record deficit. So it was especially ironic last week to watch business and Conservative leaders pull out the stops to toast the silver anniversary of the Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement.
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7-Oct-2012
The fourth round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between India and Australia is expected to be held in November this year, in New Delhi, a top official has said.
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7-Oct-2012
Ecuador officially announced on 8 October 2012 that it will request the annulment of the recent decision of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) which was communicated on 5 October 2012 (ICSID Decision ARB/06/11).
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6-Oct-2012
Are you fed up with the sorry state of Quebec’s taxpayer-funded roads and highways? Disgusted by widespread allegations of corruption and collusion in the province’s construction industry? Shocked at the kickbacks that organized crime is said to demand to get things built in this province?
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6-Oct-2012
Twenty-five years ago this week, the signing of the Canada – U.S. free-trade agreement (FTA) sparked one of the most passionate political debates in Canadian history.
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4-Oct-2012
Viet Nam News
The first negotiations on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Viet Nam and the European Union are scheduled to open this month.
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3-Oct-2012
infojustice
Health advocates have asked the EU not to include data exclusivity requirements in the “Deeply Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement” that is being negotiated between the EU and Moldova.
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3-Oct-2012
Colombia Report
China and Colombia begin their first steps toward a free trade agreement as well as sign several other trade agreements further promoting trade between the two countries.
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3-Oct-2012
SME Times
The German envoy to India Wednesday said the business communities of both countries have shown tremendous interest in completing the India-European Union free trade agreement.
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3-Oct-2012
Andina
Peru signed Monday a framework agreement on trade, economic, technical and investment cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprises Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
