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  • 7-Aug-2011
    TDRI pushes for fewer FTA restrictions and more pacts
    Business leaders and academics recommend the new government ease rules and extend the coverage of current free-trade agreements as well as step up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks.
  • 5-Aug-2011 People’s Democracy
    Free trade agreements: The dangerous new frontier
    FTAs are worse than the WTO because they demand much more, writes Amit Sengupta
  • 5-Aug-2011 CENS
    Taiwan intends to hold FTA talk with Indonesia
    After negotiating with Singapore on economic partnership, Taiwan now studies similar talks with Indonesia to sign free trade agreement (FTA) to be member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • 5-Aug-2011 The Nation
    China the big export winner, Thailand ’not fully benefiting’: TDRI
    China seems to be the manufacturing base that is benefiting the most from the free-trade agreement with Asean countries, as the value of exports from China to Asean in three major industries have increased significantly over the past decade, according to the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).
  • 4-Aug-2011
    Peru to seek more free trade pacts
    Peru’s new Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Jose Luis Silva said Monday he will push negotiations on a number of pending and prospective free trade agreements (FTA).
  • 4-Aug-2011
    Chinese opposition not a concern of U.S.-Taiwan FTA: scholar
    The real barrier to the signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and Taiwan is not China’s opposition, but American disinterest and Taiwanese protectionism, a research fellow of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation said Wednesday.
  • 4-Aug-2011 VoA
    US Senators reach compromise on free trade deals
    US Senate leaders have reached a potential bipartisan compromise on three long-delayed free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea.
  • 4-Aug-2011 Info Justice
    Philip Morris v. Uruguay on cigarette branding: Will investor-state arbitration send restrictions on tobacco marketing up in smoke?
    Philip Morris asserts that fair and equitable treatment includes a right to a “stable and predictable regulatory framework” as well as rights under treaties in addition to customary international law.
  • 3-Aug-2011 PTI
    India-EU FTA negotiations at advanced stage: Scindia
    Negotiations on a comprehensive free trade pact between India and the European Union, which began in June 2007, have reached an "advanced and delicate stage", India’s Parliament was informed.
  • 2-Aug-2011 Economic Times
    India tells EU Nations to commit visa numbers for Indian professionals
    India has sought a commitment from each of the 27 member-nations of the European Union on the number of Indian professionals they would allow to migrate each year in order to help India move faster in concluding the bilateral free trade agreement with the EU, a senior government official has told ET.
  • 1-Aug-2011 Yonhap
    S. Korea posts trade deficit with EU following FTA
    South Korea logged a trade deficit with the European Union last month as imports spiked from the region after both implemented a free trade deal, customs data showed Monday.
  • 31-Jul-2011
    India to cut duties on diesel engines, gearboxes from Japan
    At a time when India and the EU are struggling to negotiate duty cuts on automobiles, New Delhi will drastically reduce tariffs on diesel engines and gear boxes from Japan under their free trade pact.
  • 31-Jul-2011
    Singapore to have more access to China’s service industries
    China is key to Singapore diversifying its risks in an uncertain global economy, and that is why the Republic also supports China’s intention to promote the use of the yuan in the global market, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday.
  • 31-Jul-2011
    Corporations, unions exert pressure over Korea free trade pact
    As Congress draws nearer to considering three new free trade agreements, union members are putting pressure on their congressional representatives to oppose them, arguing that they’d cost the state more manufacturing jobs, even as corporate supporters see new hope for quick passage.
  • 31-Jul-2011
    Dhaka, KL moving ahead to sign FTA deal
    Dhaka is moving ahead steadily to sign an accord on a bilateral Free Trade Area (FTA) with Kuala Lumpur as the ministry of commerce (MoC) has recently sent its "well-guarded position", containing a template on the proposed FTA to the Malaysian government, a top ministry official said.
  • 30-Jul-2011 FOR
    Saying no to the Colombia free trade agreement
    On July 11th, over 200 people converged in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House. All were there to raise their voices to President Obama to say “NO” to the proposed US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CFTA).
  • 30-Jul-2011
    FTA between China, Costa Rica to enter into force on Aug. 1
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica and China, the first such pact inked between China and a Central American country, will enter into force on Aug. 1, Foreign Trade Minister Anabel Gonzalez said Friday.
  • 30-Jul-2011
    Indonesia ready for FTA with New Zealand, Australia
    Indonesia is ready to soon implement a free trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand as part of a free trade pact signed by ASEAN and the two countries.
  • 29-Jul-2011 Voxy
    TPPA secrecy is undemocratic
    The continuing silence of most New Zealand MPs regarding government’s clandestine negotiations about the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement indicates either their ignorance of what is going on or their willing connivance in selling New Zealand down the river, according to Democrats for Social Credit (DSC) health spokesman David Tranter.
  • 28-Jul-2011
    FTAs propel coconut exports growth
    The Philippine coconut industry is optimistic that coconut exports are bound to grow further in markets where the Philippines has free trade agreements (FTAs) with, the industry association said.