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  • 21-Dec-2010
    Opposition calls for nullifying KORUS FTA
    A group comprising of 43 opposition lawmakers Tuesday called on the government to nullify the free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States.
  • 21-Dec-2010
    GCC FTA Zardari seeks Kuwait’s help
    President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan has keen interest in concluding a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and seeks Kuwait’s support in this regard.
  • 21-Dec-2010
    Thailand expects to ink full-scale FTA with India in 2011
    Thailand on Tuesday said a comprehensive market-opening pact with India is expected to be concluded in 2011, giving a boost to bilateral trade, set to cross USD 6.5 billion this fiscal.
  • 20-Dec-2010 Malaysiakini
    Put a hold on FTAs unfavourable to us
    The Consumers Association of Penang is deeply concerned about the implications FTAs with the US (via the TPP) and the EU might have on various aspects of Malaysia’s development.
  • 20-Dec-2010 Bangkok Post
    Thailand wants to include labour in FTA talks with EU
    The Thai government wants the European Union to expand free trade talks to cover labour in addition to existing pacts on industry, services and investment.
  • 20-Dec-2010
    Nonviolence pact by reps could thwart FTA passing
    A “nonviolence movement” led by young ruling-party lawmakers, dedicated to ending brawls and fisticuffs in the National Assembly, could put the ratification of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement in jeopardy.
  • 19-Dec-2010 RFI
    Maroc : accord de libéralisation
    Après le statut avancé, le Maroc vient de signer un accord de libéralisation dans le domaine de la pêche et des produits agricoles avec l’Union européenne.
  • 18-Dec-2010
    ROC representative to EU to push for FTA
    The Republic of China’s (ROC) representative to the European Union and Belgium, David Lin, says that ROC diplomats in Europe are set to begin pushing for a Free Trade Agreement with the EU. The ROC is the official name of Taiwan’s government.
  • 18-Dec-2010
    Accord commercial avec l’UE: «une priorité» pour le Mercosur
    Les pays sud-américains du Mercosur ont déclaré vendredi que la conclusion d’un accord commercial avec l’Union européenne était une «priorité», mais n’ont pas fixé de délai, à l’issue de leur sommet à Foz de Iguaçu.
  • 18-Dec-2010 EFE
    Ecuador scores legal victory over US oil film
    The Ecuadorian government hailed a decision by an International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes arbitration panel, which said it lacked jurisdiction over a lawsuit brought against Quito by US-based Murphy Oil Corporation.
  • 18-Dec-2010 CNA
    Taiwan, Singapore to open formal talks on trade deal
    Taiwan and Singapore will begin formal negotiations on a free trade agreement early next year after completing feasibility studies, representatives of both governments announced in a joint press release Wednesday.
  • 18-Dec-2010 EurQctive
    EU-Korea trade deal ups pressure on Taiwan, Japan
    The European Union is set to clear the final legal hurdles to a free trade agreement with South Korea, putting pressure on Taiwan and Japan to strike similar deals with Brussels.
  • 18-Dec-2010 EurQctive
    EU lawmaking reform gives Brussels more power on trade
    European Commission plans to reduce member states’ influence on the EU’s day-to-day decision-making by reforming the so-called ’comitology’ procedure were yesterday approved by MEPs, shifting power over key trade decisions like multi-million euro import tariffs away from national governments to the EU institutions.
  • 18-Dec-2010 Colombia Reports
    Republicans threaten Colombia trade preference deal
    Republicans in the US Senate are trying to block the extension of a trade preference agreement which allows many Colombian goods to enter the country duty-free.
  • 18-Dec-2010 Tengata Whenhua
    TPPA no good for Maori
    Te Wharepora Hou, a group of Maori women based in Auckland, supports civil society groups from Australia and New Zealand in opposing the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
  • 18-Dec-2010 Dong-A Ilbo
    US requests Korea’s joining of regional FTA
    The US has officially requested that Korea join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a multilateral free trade deal among Asia-Pacific economies, and Seoul will study the pros and cons of joining early next year.
  • 17-Dec-2010
    ’Only area where Indo-China ties doing well is commerce’
    The first visit of a major Chinese leader in more than four years has yielded a bland joint communiqué skirting core Indian concerns but incorporating a commitment to rapidly expand a lopsided trade relationship that has already turned India into the raw-material appendage of a neo-colonial Chinese economy.
  • 17-Dec-2010
    Turkey willing to use Ghana as springboard to do business in Africa, says foreign trade minister
    Turkey is willing to use Ghana as an operations center for its business deals in the African continent, Turkish State Minister for foreign trade Zafer Caglayan said on Wednesday.
  • 17-Dec-2010
    Brazil, Argentina seek to bring Cuba into Mercosur trade bloc
    Member nations of Mercosur will seek to boost economic and political ties with Cuba in a bid to make the communist island an associate member of the South American trade bloc.
  • 17-Dec-2010
    Young ruling lawmakers oppose arbitrary proceeding for Korea-U.S. FTA bill
    A group of 23 young lawmakers of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) on Thursday declared they will boycott the parliamentary vote if the party’s leadership attempts to railroad a Korea-U.S. free trade bill, saying they are opposed to any arbitrary legislation by a single party.