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4-Sep-2011
Pakistan improves offer, but still no MFN status to India
Pakistan is ready to double the number of goods it imports from India, but has stopped short of offering full-fledged most-favoured nation, or MFN, status it had promised earlier this year as part of bilateral confidence-building measures. -
4-Sep-2011
Ongoing negotiations for EU-S’pore FTA progressing well
Negotiation for an EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) is progressing well. -
4-Sep-2011
Let the people speak
A quite amazing event took place in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on August 29 and 30. Two hundred representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from China and 19 African countries held a China-Africa People’s Forum. -
4-Sep-2011
EU pits Alberta beef against Quebec dairy products in Canada trade talks
The European Union may refuse to open its market to more Canadian beef, pork and sweet corn unless Canada provides better access to its heavily protected dairy sector, a senior European diplomat said. -
4-Sep-2011
Commerce Min for protection of domestic auto industry: Patel
Heavy Industry Minister Praful Patel has said the Commerce Ministry is "broadly supportive" of the view that the domestic automobile industry should be protected when India signs a free trade agreement with the European Union. -
4-Sep-2011
Is regional integration mere rhetoric?
The song of Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional integration is sung so loudly that even the deaf can hear it. But my recent experience in Windhoek, Namibia tends to prove that the reality on the ground does not match the rhetoric. -
4-Sep-2011
Mercosur-China FTA could be "extraordinary", says Argentine FM
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman Saturday urged to boost the south American country ’s trade ties with China, saying a free trade agreement (FTA) between Beijing and the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) could be "extraordinary". -
3-Sep-2011 Xinhua
China mulls free trade zone among SCO member states
Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization should consider setting up a free trade agreement which, once in place, would cover about three fifths of the Eurasia’s landmass. -
2-Sep-2011 Radio Australia
Pacific’s Chief Trade Advisor resigns with a warning for Australia
The Pacific’s Chief Trade Advisor has resigned with a warning that unless Australia and New Zealand act soon to put something of value on the table for the PACER plus trade negotiations, the talks risk falling over.
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2-Sep-2011
Free Trade in Africa, For Better or Worse?
It is not certain that an African free trade area will further regional integration or deepen the existing inequality between countries. -
2-Sep-2011 IPS
Capital controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
US negotiators are hardliners against capital controls in current Trans-Pacific trade talks with eight other countries. -
2-Sep-2011
India plans to delete 48 apparel items from sensitive list to allow Bangladesh garment sector duty-free access
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and chief ministers of eastern and northeastern states will push for a thaw in relations with Bangladesh by talking trade next week. And trade with Bangladesh invariably means textiles. -
2-Sep-2011
Rival parties agree to handle FTA with U.S. in same pace with U.S. Congress
Rival parties agreed Thursday to begin the ratification process for the long-pending free trade agreement with the United States at the same pace with the U.S. Congress, officials said. -
2-Sep-2011 Bloomberg
Chevron wins $96 million for 1990s Ecuador oil dispute
Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. energy company, said it won a $96 million judgment against Ecuador in an international arbitration case stemming from a 1990s oil-export dispute with the Latin American nation. -
1-Sep-2011 Crikey
New trade agreement threatens Australia’s laws on medicines and tobacco
Australia leads the world in many areas of public health but the Federal Government could be negotiating our achievements away, according to Dr Patricia Ranald, Convenor, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network -
1-Sep-2011 China Daily
North Asia free-trade area agreement enormously beneficial but years away
A free-trade area among China, Japan and South Korea would bring enormous benefits to the regional economy, but it will take many years before such an agreement can be signed, officials and experts said on Wednesday. -
1-Sep-2011 Arirang
Korea/US FTA: Washington source says US Congress have reportedly postponed voting on pact until October
According to an anonymous source in Washington Thursdaythe US House of Representatives has tentatively agreed to vote on the country’s three pending trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama in mid October. -
31-Aug-2011 L’Action
Francine Raynault would like to reopen NAFTA
A Member of Parliament is reckoning bringing the case of Kruger before the Canadian Parliament. -
31-Aug-2011 IPS
No progress on access to European markets
Weariness surrounds the negotiations on an Economic Partnership Agreement regulating trade access between Southern Africa and the European Union. -
31-Aug-2011 NMPF
US rights to export variety of cheeses to Korea upheld
In June, the US and South Korean governments clarified that US cheese manufacturers will be able to continuing shipping to Korea a wide variety of cheeses of importance to the US dairy industry despite the EU-Korea FTA’s provisions on geographical indications