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28-Mar-2011
MercoPress
Negotiators from the European Union, Colombia and Peru have signed the final texts on an association agreement with a free trade chapter designed to increase commerce between the Andean countries and the European bloc, it was reported Friday.
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28-Mar-2011
The Telegraph
The prospect of an imminent of India-European Union Free Trade Agreement has suffered a setback according to officials who said they now believe it may not be signed before the end of the year or early 2012.
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27-Mar-2011
AJE
India is one of the world’s largest producers of generic drugs. But a proposed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union could curb the supply of affordable drugs to millions of people. Al Jazeera reports from New Delhi
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27-Mar-2011
The Hindu
India and the Europe Free Trade Association (EFTA) are likely to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) entailing a comprehensive bilateral trade and investment agreement by this year after fast tracking of the negotiations between the two groups.
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27-Mar-2011
EC
As initialled in Brussels on 24 March 2011
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27-Mar-2011
EC
The initialling will be followed by the process of translation, signature and adoption of this agreement so that it can enter into force as soon as possible for all parties.
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27-Mar-2011
Bloomberg
The Southern African Customs Union has finally agreed on a set of principles to negotiate all future trade agreements, including deals with India and Mercosur, collectively
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25-Mar-2011
Bloomberg
“Corporate Japan is really pushing, as they know Japan’s failure to enter the TPP would be a further step towards second- or third rate nationhood on the global stage,” said Jesper Koll, head of equity research at JPMorgan & Co. in Tokyo.
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25-Mar-2011
BBC
The European Union should offer Japan a free trade deal to help it recover from the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
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24-Mar-2011
Corporate Watch
The EU Trade Commission has confirmed that the EU-India free trade agreement is essentially a UK agreement, under the auspices of the EU.
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24-Mar-2011
COHA
Local activists protesting Obama’s visit to El Salvador called for a renegotiation of CAFTA, an end to the US embargo against Cuba, a withdrawal of the US military from El Salvador, and a cessation of US support for the tainted Porfirio Lobos regime in neighboring Honduras.
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23-Mar-2011
CCPA
Why should a provincial government be punished for doing the right thing?
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22-Mar-2011
KEI
Eleven public interest advocacy groups and three law professors have submitted a petition to Anand Grover, the Special Rapporteur for the United Nations on the right to health, to intervene in a new regional trade agreement that will shrink the market for legal generic medecines.
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22-Mar-2011
Given the changing international trade environment, India needs to strike the right balance between regionalism and multilateralism.
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22-Mar-2011
The trade and economic cooperation deal signed by the US and Brazil will open a constrained market and help reach the administration’s goal of doubling exports by 2015, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said.
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22-Mar-2011
South Korea’s Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon and his Peruvian counterpart Eduardo Ferreyros Monday inked the free trade agreement in Seoul after five rounds of negotiations over a two-year period.
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22-Mar-2011
Pakistan and China will discuss expansion of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries in the coming June with an aim to boost bilateral trade.
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21-Mar-2011
Conducive
South Korea’s inability to feed itself should not only be seen as a result of its economic development strategy, prioritization of the urban population and industrial development over agriculture, but also in the long term ties and dependency to the US, its largest trading partner.
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21-Mar-2011
NZ Herald
Talks on a free trade agreement between the European Union and New Zealand would be premature at this point, says EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht.
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21-Mar-2011
Huffington Post
With the Republicans and the Obama administration attempting to rush headlong into a new trade agreements with Korea, and possibly also with Panama and Colombia, it is incumbent on Americans to apply a bit of empiricism. How have our past trade agreements worked out? Above all, how’s the grand-daddy of them all, NAFTA, doing?
