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  • 8-May-2012 IPS
    Secrecy blankets trade talks
    The latest round of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), potentially the largest free trade agreement to be signed by the United States, began Tuesday with a blanket of secrecy over their content.
  • 7-May-2012 Focus Taiwan
    Taiwan-New Zealand free trade talks to begin
    Taiwan and New Zealand have completed a joint feasibility study into a bilateral economic cooperation agreement (ECA) and will officially start free trade talks in the near future, Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang said Saturday.
  • 7-May-2012 IPS
    Corporations win big in battle against investment regulation
    In a world where governments are increasingly subservient to global finance capital, multinationals are gaining ground in the fight against state regulations that aim to protect the environment, public health or social policies.
  • 7-May-2012 USTR
    US Model BIT (2012)
  • 7-May-2012 Focus on Regulation
    USTR and State complete three-year review and unveil 2012 model BIT
    The State Department and the US Trade Representative (USTR) unveiled last week the new US Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT)
  • 7-May-2012 Financial Express
    It’s advantage Tokyo in India-Japan economic pact
    Though it is too early to arrive at definite conclusions, the trend signals Tokyo successfully using tariff cuts to penetrate deeper into the Indian market for goods.
  • 6-May-2012
    Ankara, Kiev sign deal to boost cooperation
    Turkey and Ukraine signed a protocol on May 4 to deepen economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. The protocol was signed by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan and his Ukrainian counterpart Sergei Tigipko after the eighth term meeting of the Turkey-Ukraine Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee, in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
  • 5-May-2012
    Ford Europe hits at EU-Korea trade deal
    The European boss of Ford Motor, the continent’s fourth-ranked carmaker by sales, has complained about “significant imbalance” in trade in cars under a free trade agreement with South Korea that took effect last year.
  • 5-May-2012
    3rd round of India-Australia FTA talk to be held this month
    India and Australia will hold the third round of negotiations for the conclusion of a comprehensive free trade agreement in Sydney later this month.
  • 4-May-2012
    Leading US official rules out renegotiation of free trade pact
    Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler ruled out renegotiation of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement on Thursday, saying the deal had been in effect for just six weeks. Her comments foreshadowed a tough time for the Korean government’s efforts to revise the investor-state dispute settlement system under the accord.
  • 4-May-2012
    Huge potential exists in Indian market for Pakistani items
    Indian market has huge potential for Pakistani items, but experts are discussing India’s import impact on domestic economy, ignoring the potential of services sector exports to that country, according to speakers of a seminar on Thursday.
  • 4-May-2012
    ’Chasm’ in trade talks
    An American business lobbyist has given a sober assessment of Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] talks, citing a ’’chasm’’ between leaders’ ambitions and their negotiators’ positions.
  • 4-May-2012
    Canada’s other drug war
    There’s a debate raging over Canada’s intellectual property regime. If one side’s right, Canada stands to pay $2.8 billion more every year in drug costs while it undermines its generic-drug manufacturing sector.
  • 4-May-2012
    1st round of FTA talks with China due May 10
    Korea will hold its first round of negotiations with China on the bilateral free trade agreement next Thursday in Beijing, Seoul’s Trade Ministry said Friday.
  • 4-May-2012
    Bilateral trade: Pakistan, South Korea reiterate ties
    Islamabad and Seoul can raise bilateral trade up to $3 billion, for which both governments should expedite negotiations to sign a free trade agreement and encourage the visit of business delegations and exhibitors from either side, said a press release obtained from the Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) on Thursday.
  • 4-May-2012 US News & World Report
    US exporting obesity to Mexico
    According to "Exporting Obesity," a recent paper from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, allowed the U.S. to send even more of its massive quantities of corn, soybeans, sugar, meat, and other foods to Mexico. An influx of cheap calories helped to push Mexico’s obesity rate upward.
  • 4-May-2012 Reuters
    Ford asks steep price for Japan to join trade talks
    Japan should be required to reduce the size of its auto industry before being allowed into regional free trade talks with the United States and eight other countries in the Asia Pacific, a top Ford Motor Co official said.
  • 4-May-2012 Huffington Post
    The return of investment policy — The U.S. is back in the game
    Foreign investment policy hasn’t been the main focus of the U.S. government in recent years. However, this may begin to change and industry leaders should not stay behind.
  • 4-May-2012 Postmedia News
    EU trade deal could send drug prices soaring, provinces warn Harper
    Provincial governments are expressing concern about the prospect of sharply higher prescription drug prices for Canadians if the Harper government accepts European Union demands for expanded drug patent protection laws.
  • 4-May-2012 ThePoultrySite
    Seoul to limit fallout of China FTA on farm sector
    South Korea will draw up safeguard measures to minimise the fallout of a free trade agreement (FTA) with China on its farming sector, the Seoul government said.