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  • 28-Sep-2011 ACP
    Developing countries query European bid to abolish sugar quotas
    The ACP Sugar Group has recently been made aware through media reports of an “impact study” made by and for the European Commission, reportedly due for release in October 2011. This study refers to proposals for changes in the European sugar regime. It is hoped that this is not accurate as some of the key assumptions and results are more than questionable.
  • 28-Sep-2011 Chosun Ilbo
    US cheese companies prepare to infiltrate Korea
    As Korea and the U.S. await the approval of their respective legislatures on a Free Trade Agreement, around 30 members of the US Dairy Export Council came to Korea to study and tap this promising market this week.
  • 28-Sep-2011 KUNA
    EU seeks to begin FTA negotiations with S. Mediterranean countries
    The European Union Foreign Affairs Council on Trade Monday agreed to begin negotiations on "direct and comprehensive" free trade agreements with Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia.
  • 28-Sep-2011 Indian Wine Academy
    EU-FTA: Wine tax reduction remains pipe dream
    The target date for reaching a deal is now February 2012
  • 27-Sep-2011 AFP
    Palestinians to export direct to EU, avoiding Israel
    The European parliament Tuesday gave its green light to a deal enabling Palestinians to export farm and fish products directly to the European Union starting next year, without transit through Israel.
  • 27-Sep-2011 MAP
    Palestine joins Agadir FTA
    Foreign Ministers of the signatories to the Agadir free trade agreement (signed on February 25, 2004 and includes Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) agreed, Monday in New York, to Palestine’s membership of the grouping.
  • 27-Sep-2011 AFL CIO
    Documentary: CAFTA led to workers’ rights violations in Honduras
    Ever since it was passed five years ago, the Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) has led to an increase in unemployment, violations of worker rights and discrimination against women in Honduras, according to an about-to-be-released documentary.
  • 27-Sep-2011 WBEZ
    Jordan firm accused of sexual abuse supplied clothes to Sears, Target and others
    Since 2007, at least 300 young female employees have been raped and brutalized by Classic managers while sewing clothes for giant retailers, including Hanes, Target, Sears, Macy’s and Land’s End. These garments enter the US duty-free under the US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement.
  • 27-Sep-2011 Bloomberg
    EU Parliament backs food-trade deal with Palestinian Authority
    European Union lawmakers approved a plan to give the Palestinian Authority greater access to the EU food market in a bid to bolster the local economy and drive for statehood.
  • 26-Sep-2011
    FTA with Asean hurting domestic market, reveals Ficci survey
    The India-Asean Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect from January 2010, has been a mixed bag so far. While more opportunities have opened up for Indian industries, in terms of greater market access for their products in the Asean region, the duty reduction on imports from Asean countries, in turn, has hit India’s domestic market.
  • 25-Sep-2011
    SADC intra-regional trade pathetic
    Intra-regional trade is really pathetic within the Southern African Development Community, says United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Senior Regional Agriculture Programme Manager Cecilia Kuphe.
  • 25-Sep-2011
    Michael Kambeck: free trade agreement with Armenia important to EU
    The Warsaw-hosted Eastern Partnership summit is a good signal for Armenia in terms of visa facilitation and free trade agreement negotiations with EU, according to the Secretary General of European Friends of Armenia (EuFoA) non-governmental organisation.
  • 25-Sep-2011 Macon
    Kia closely watching free-trade debate
    Kia spent $150,000 in the first quarter of this year to lobby members of the US House and Senate on matters that included the Korea-US free-trade agreement, according to federal lobbying records.
  • 24-Sep-2011
    US Senate removes biggest hurdle to FTA ratification
    The U.S. Senate has approved the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), a worker training program that has been the largest stumbling block to the ratification of the bilateral free trade agreement with Korea.
  • 23-Sep-2011 Prensa Latina
    FTAs promote inequality: Stiglitz
    According to Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize winner for economics, free trade agreements constitute one of the clearest links between globalization and increasing inequality.
  • 23-Sep-2011 Embassy Mag
    British PM wants Canada-Europe trade agreement ‘early next year’
    The ongoing free-trade negotiations between Europe and Canada were at the heart of the declaration signed between Harper and Cameron this week
  • 23-Sep-2011 Civil Georgia
    EU official: free trade talks with Georgia expected soon
    EU and Georgia are expected to launch talks on deep and comprehensive free trade agreement (DCFTA) “very soon”, provided that Georgia takes all the remaining steps required for beginning of these negotiations, an EU official said.
  • 23-Sep-2011 Colombia Reports
    Colombia-EU-Peru trade pact approved by commissioners
    The European Commission has approved the European Union’s free trade agreement with Colombia and Peru, international media reported.
  • 23-Sep-2011 Mainichi
    Noda, Cameron agree to push for Japan-EU FTA
    Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Thursday agreed with his British counterpart David Cameron that the two countries will step up their efforts to realize a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union.
  • 22-Sep-2011 Express Tribune
    TIFA negotiations: A case of irradiating mangoes
    Pakistan and the US have vowed to enhance economic cooperation despite soaring political tensions.