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  • 5-Jun-2011 AFP
    Canada seeks more free trade, security zone with US
    Governor General David Johnston said Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper would work with Washington to create a continental security perimeter around Canada and the United States "ensuring that people and goods can flow freely and safely between our two countries."
  • 4-Jun-2011
    T-FTA: Devil is in implementation
    Success of the grandiose Tripartite Free Trade Area will largely depend on how geared members of COMESA, EAC and SADC are to swiftly implementing agreements and trade protocols.
  • 4-Jun-2011
    Trade groups urge FTA among S. Korea, China, Japan
    Major trade organizations of South Korea, China and Japan urged their governments Friday to quickly sign a three-way free trade agreement (FTA) to strengthen their economic cooperation.
  • 4-Jun-2011
    India likely to sign FTA with EU this year: Sharma
    India is hopeful of signing the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union this year and negotiations are at an ‘advanced stage’, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said today.
  • 2-Jun-2011
    Wrestling with Big Pharma
    Canadians spend a lot of money (public and private) on health care and much of that is spent on drugs — some $23.4 billion in 2008. Provincial insurance plans are desperately trying to cope, looking to initiatives like the recently passed Ontario law that caps prices of generic drugs at 25 per cent of the brand name equivalent.
  • 2-Jun-2011
    US florists join Asocolflores in trade deal push
    The Society of American Florists, the umbrella organisation for the flower industry in the US, has supported the announcement that the US and Colombia have reached an agreement to help clear a path toward final Congressional approval of the US/Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
  • 2-Jun-2011
    Korea Trade’s Cho Says Petrochemical Firms to Benefit From FTA
    Cho Seong Dae, chief researcher at the FTA & Industry Research Office Institute for International Trade, part of the Korea International Trade Association, comments on the impact of a free-trade agreement with the European Union on South Korean petrochemical companies.
  • 2-Jun-2011 CNA
    Germany for speedy conclusion of proposed EU-ASEAN FTA
    Germany supports a speedy conclusion of the proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and ASEAN. This was in view of the non-conclusion of the Doha round of talks, says German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
  • 2-Jun-2011 El Watan
    La zone de libre-échange avec l’UE reportée à 2020
    L’Algérie a obtenu un accord de principe pour que la zone de libre-échange avec l’Union européenne entre en vigueur en 2020 au lieu de 2017 comme prévu initialement
  • 31-May-2011
    Farm groups make case for passage of free-trade deals
    Emphasizing the importance of trade to the nation’s economy and the need to prevent the loss of existing export markets, agricultural leaders converged on Capitol Hill to urge for immediate passage of three outstanding trade agreements.
  • 31-May-2011
    Services: to liberalize or not?
    The Southern Africa Development Community and the Common Market for East and Southern Africa are currently in the process of liberalizing trade in services.
  • 31-May-2011
    Three outstanding issues remain in FTA agreement between Ukraine, EU, says Ukrainian PM
    The agreement on the establishment of a free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union is almost ready, although there are three unresolved issues remaining, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
  • 31-May-2011
    DP calls for renegotiation of free trade pact with US
    Leaders of Korea’s main opposition party Tuesday urged the government to renegotiate the free trade agreement with the United States before seeking parliamentary approval.
  • 31-May-2011
    Govt hints at flexibility in WTO talks in line with FTAs
    India may agree in the WTO negotiations to cut tariff in specific sectors in which the country is, any way, slashing duties under Free Trade Agreements with different countries and blocs, a Commerce Ministry official said today.
  • 31-May-2011
    Peru, Japan FTA to contribute to increase trade flow in 30%
    Peru and Japan will increase trade flow in 30 percent thanks to the signing of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by both countries which will come into effect in a short term, reported Tuesday Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Eduardo Ferreyros.
  • 30-May-2011
    Mexico declares progress in FTA talks with C. America
    Mexico said Sunday the fifth round of negotiations for forming a single free trade agreement (FTA) with Central America ended with important progress on various issues.
  • 30-May-2011
    Agriculture, the big trade off for the Korea-Mexico FTA
    Mexico, like Korea, is a country heavily dependent on exports to sustain its economic growth, but the two countries are currently not seeing eye-to-eye over a possible trade deal.
  • 30-May-2011
    Goff: Pharmac ’absolute bottom line’
    Labour leader Phil Goff says his party would not put government drug buying agency Pharmac on the block to gain a free trade deal with the United States.
  • 29-May-2011 Mainichi
    Japan edges toward EU free trade talks, but with not much optimism
    While agreeing at the Japan-EU summit in Brussels to start what is called a "scoping" exercise suggests that the 27-member European Union has become more serious about the launch of the FTA talks, a Japanese government official familiar with bilateral relations appeared jittery.
  • 29-May-2011 KEI
    Karl De Gucht writes Andris Piebalgs on topic of European Union IPR demands on India and other developing countries
    KEI has received a copy of a May 16, 2011 letter from Karl De Gucht to Andris Piebalgs, which discusses (1) the EU-India FTA, and (2) Relations between IPR and development policies.