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16-Feb-2012
VNA
The EU and the Vietnamese government have held a series of seminars on the Free Trade Agreement at working level and are now going to hold more at ministerial level.
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16-Feb-2012
Colombia Reports
The United States said Monday Colombia had not yet met its obligations to protect labor unionists required for the Free Trade Agreement to come into effect.
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15-Feb-2012
Fibre2Fashion
At the upcoming meeting, Nepali entrepreneurs are expecting that the Government would work out a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to improve garment and Pashmina item exports to the US, exports of which have been declining since 2000.
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14-Feb-2012
Bloomberg
“Authors’ copyrights should not be placed above human rights,” Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said today,
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14-Feb-2012
Bloomberg
Ecuador is seeking an “affirmative response” from the European Union to restart trade talks stalled since the government of South America’s seventh-biggest economy stopped negotiations in 2009.
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10-Feb-2012
CNA
An association of hog growers threatened Friday to mobilize its members in protest outside the Presidential Office if the government buckles under pressure and allows the entry of US beef imports containing a banned leanness-enhancing drug.
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10-Feb-2012
Tech President
Opponents of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) welcomed the official decision by the German government today to wait for action from the European Parliament before signing the treaty, calling it a sign that the debate over the balance between copyright protection and Internet freedom has become more explicitly political.
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10-Feb-2012
The Hindu
“Whether we get to live or die should not be up to trade negotiators. We’re all here today with one clear message to India and the EU: ‘Don’t trade away our lives’,” said Mundrika Gahlot of the Delhi Network of Positive People.
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10-Feb-2012
IANS
India and the 27-nation European Union Friday signed two key pacts, including a joint declaration on research and innovation, and agreed to step up negotiations for a broad-based trade and investment pact which continues to be mired in "complex issues."
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10-Feb-2012
Hindu Businessline
As India and the European Union met for a summit in New Delhi on Friday, thousands of food, retail, and health activists took to the streets in the Capital to protest against the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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10-Feb-2012
http://www.acp.int/content/press-re...
The Secretary General of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) H. E Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas presented a list of key priorities for the organisation, setting the tone in the lead up to the ACP Heads of State Summit to be held this December in Equatorial Guinea.
Speaking to journalists today, Dr Chambas declared 2012 to be a “year of restoration”, underlining plans to enhance the ACP as a “forward-looking international organisation.”
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10-Feb-2012
Sale of products that compete with EU’s GI-protected ones will be affected. Indian dairy sector has reasons to worry.
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10-Feb-2012
After four years of negotiations, campaigners fear India is about to sign a trade deal with the EU which will stop the flow of cheap life-saving drugs to the developing world
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10-Feb-2012
China and Canada declared Thursday that bilateral relations have reached “a new level” following a series of multibillion-dollar trade and business agreements to ship additional Canadian petroleum, uranium and other products to the Asian superpower.
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9-Feb-2012
Telepresence Options
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) are essentially an alteration to SOPA and PIPA for the rest of the world.
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9-Feb-2012
Business Standard
Amul, India’s best-known milk products maker, may have to soon erase words such as Gouda and Emmental from its cheese labels
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9-Feb-2012
Yonhap
South Korea plans to fully consider potential fallout for "sensitive industries" that may be hurt if a free trade agreement (FTA) with China is reached, a senior government policymaker said Friday.
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9-Feb-2012
Several difficult issues need to be resolved if India is not to be short-changed in the Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement with the EU.
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9-Feb-2012
India is a brave new world for Canada’s auto-parts makers, who set out last month to test the largely untested waters.
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9-Feb-2012
In a stinging indictment of the slow speed with which the higher judiciary decides cases and lackadaisical manner in which the government deals with disputes involving foreign companies doing business in India, a three-member international arbitration panel has decided a case against the Government of India and a PSU.
