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26-Jul-2012
Stock & Land
China has been pushing to accelerate negotiations on an FTA with Australia, and has recently indicated it would want more liberal rules to apply to state-owned enterprises.
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26-Jul-2012
IPS
As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington Tuesday, thousands of protesters marched on the White House calling for an end to free trade deals that protesters argue make vital AIDS medicines unaffordable.
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23-Jul-2012
NY Times
We call on the European Union to suspend some features of its Everything but Arms (E.B.A.) initiative, which grants duty-free access to products from many developing countries, including Cambodia.
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23-Jul-2012
IP Watch
Delayed market entry of generics due to enhanced intellectual property protection cost Jordanian private consumers approximately 18 million US dollars annually
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23-Jul-2012
Terra Nullius
Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have been uprooted from their homes, farmlands, and forests by companies that have been granted concessions for the development of agro-industrial plantations.
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23-Jul-2012
Hindu Business Line
Israel has expressed reservations over India’s demand for easier movement of skilled professionals through a free trade agreement.
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22-Jul-2012
The Korea-Colombia Free Trade Agreement will be a win-win opportunity for both economies and help further strengthen the “brotherhood” forged through blood during the Korea War, the Colombian Ambassador said Tuesday.
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21-Jul-2012
If Hong Kong accedes to the China-Asean Free Trade Area (CAFTA), Malaysia would find opportunities to expand its services sector through Hong Kong’s established service-based economy.
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21-Jul-2012
The president of CUPE Nova Scotia has a warning for the premiers and others attending the first Ministers meeting in Halifax later this month.
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21-Jul-2012
Japan and Turkey have agreed to launch a joint study on concluding an economic partnership agreement between the two countries.
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21-Jul-2012
Both Japan and the European Union would reap substantial benefits and enjoy growth if the two concluded an economic partnership agreement, the European Commission said Wednesday.
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21-Jul-2012
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday pledged to speed up trade liberalization and raise the nation’s international competitiveness by seeking to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership within the next eight years and signing free-trade agreements with major trade partners.
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21-Jul-2012
India’s Ministry of Commerce is confident of concluding the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union by the end of the year.
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20-Jul-2012
Bangkok Post
Thailand’s National Economical and Social Advisory Council has urged the government to exclude alcoholic beverages from the list of goods to be covered by the proposed Thailand-EU free trade agreement (FTA).
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20-Jul-2012
ForUm
Yesterday, on July 19, in Brussels, the representatives of Ukraine and the European Commission initialed the text of the agreement on free trade area between Ukraine and the EU, which is an integral part of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
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20-Jul-2012
AFP
Free trade agreements cannot be credited for the increase in intra-Asian trade as they are often restrictive in scope and difficult to implement, the Asian Development Bank said Thursday.
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19-Jul-2012
Be Your Own Leader
The Beyond the Border deal provides the essential framework for U.S.-Canada integration with the action plan being incrementally implemented.
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19-Jul-2012
The Nation
Thailand and Germany have agreed to accelerate negotiations to conclude a free trade agreement between Thailand and the European Union (EU) as a key mechanism to boost mutual trade and investment.
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19-Jul-2012
PTI
With an aim to boost trade ties, India and Russia have agreed to jointly study a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement with Belarus-Kazakhstan and exuded confidence to acheive ambitious an trade target of $ 20 billion by 2015.
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19-Jul-2012
Ottawa Citizen
As another round of CETA negotiations takes place in Brussels this week, the Canadian government must know that an early and good trade agreement with Europe is crucial to Canada’s new economic and trade agenda in Asia.