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  • 27-Oct-2011 Reuters
    Reformist Japan farmers urge free trade to spur change
    With farmers like Saito outnumbered by those who fear opening up Japan’s farm market, Prime Minister Noda must face down opposition inside his Democratic Party of Japan if he is to tell US President Barack Obama that Tokyo wants to join the talks when they meet at a Nov. 12-13 Asia-Pacific summit in Hawaii.
  • 26-Oct-2011 Reuters
    Japanese farmers protest against possible trade pact
    Thousands of Japanese farmers marched through central Tokyo on Wednesday to push the government not to join a regional free trade pact that will likely hit the nation’s small farmers.
  • 26-Oct-2011 Redeye
    Canada-EU trade agreement a threat to family farms
    Terry Boehm, president of Canada’s National Farmers Union, says this agreement is not about trade, it’s about a fundamental restructuring of the role of governments and their ability to act in the public’s interest.
  • 26-Oct-2011 NHK
    Anti-TPP rallies around Japan
    Agricultural and medical groups in Japan have held rallies to oppose the country’s participation in the talks for a free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region.
  • 26-Oct-2011 Korea Times
    Seoul inches closer to KORUS FTA endorsement
    Seoul has inched closer to endorsing the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (KORUS FTA), with the ruling camp pushing to make it a done deal by the end of the month despite resistance from the opposition parties.
  • 26-Oct-2011 NZ Herald
    Free trade triumvirate next coup for NZ
    After China and Hong Kong, New Zealand will now seek a free trade agreement with Taiwan
  • 25-Oct-2011 CCPA
    Tar sands and the CETA
    The recent decision by the European Union (EU) to disregard Canadian government pressure and forge ahead with regulations that recognise the higher green-house-gas intensity of fuel produced from tar sands and oil shale is encouraging
  • 24-Oct-2011 Kyodo
    Japan speeds up TPP decision-making process, unveils plan to back farmers
    The Japanese government is trying to accelerate its decision on whether to join multilateral negotiations for a Pacific-wide trade pact while compiling a package to support the nation’s farmers, who fear being inundated by cheap imports if Japan decides to enter the pact.
  • 24-Oct-2011 Yonhap
    S. Korea, Indonesia agree to seek free trade deal
    South Korea and Indonesia agreed to significantly boost their economic ties, a move that will include the signing of a free trade deal at an early date, the Seoul government said Monday.
  • 24-Oct-2011 East African
    Kenya walking tightrope on EPAs talks
    The outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations scheduled for December will determine the future of trade between the East African Community bloc and European Union.
  • 24-Oct-2011 Colombia Reports
    US union tells Clinton Colombian colleagues face ’elevated threat’
    US labor union United Steelworkers sent Hillary Clinton an "emergency alert" Friday warning Secretary of State that Colombian unionists are under an "elevated threat" after Washington approved a free trade deal between the two countries.
  • 24-Oct-2011 APP
    President Zardari, King Abdullah for early conclusion of Pak-Jordan FTA
    President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and King Abdullah of Jordan on Saturday called for an early conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement and holding of the second round of talks soon for this purpose.
  • 24-Oct-2011 MB
    ’Save Act’ skips Obama’s FTAs
    President Barack Obama on Friday signed three, and possibly the last of his administration, free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama, but skipped the Philippines proposed “Save Our Industries Act,” which the Aquino administration hoped to become a rider in one of these trade bills.
  • 24-Oct-2011 AP
    Mexican truck is first in delayed NAFTA program
    A Mexican truck crossed into the U.S. on Friday bound for the nation’s interior, fulfilling a long-delayed provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement that had been stalled for years by concerns it could put highway safety and American jobs at risk.
  • 24-Oct-2011 Reuters
    Trade among Gulf Arab states expected to surge by 14 percent: officials
    Trade among Gulf Arab oil producing countries is expected to grow around 14 percent in 2011 recovering from a contraction two years ago at the height of the global financial downturn, two officials said on Sunday.
  • 24-Oct-2011 CTC
    TPP - US regulatory coherence proposal (Sep 2011)
    Citizen Trade Campaign has released this September 2011 proposal from the US on regulatory coherence under the Trans Pacific Partnership
  • 24-Oct-2011 CTC
    TPP - US transparency proposal (2011)
    Citizen Trade Campaign has released this September 2011 proposal from the US on transparency under the Trans Pacific Partnership
  • 24-Oct-2011 CTC
    TPP - US TBT proposal (2011)
    Citizen Trade Campaign has released this proposed text from the US on technical barriers to trade relating to medical devices and pharmaceuticals under the Trans Pacific Partnership
  • 24-Oct-2011 CTC
    TPP - US IPR proposal (Sep 2011)
    Citizen Trade Campaign has released this September 2011 proposal from the US on IPR under the Trans Pacific Partnership
  • 23-Oct-2011 CTC
    Leaked Trans-Pacific FTA texts reveal US undermining access to medicine
    Leaks of US proposals for the Trans-Pacific free trade agreement reveal that the Obama administration has reversed reforms designed to enhance access to affordable medicines made during the George W Bush administration and is instead demanding new rights for pharmaceutical firms to challenge pricing and other drug formulary policies used by many developed countries to keep down prices,