-
13-Jan-2011
Global Research
While Canada does need to lessen its dependency on the U.S. economy, CETA is based on the failed NAFTA trade model and will only serve to accelerate the corporate takeover of the country.As talks enter their final crucial stages, there are growing concerns over the threat CETA poses to Canadian sovereignty. Coupled with the financial turmoil sweeping Europe, deep economic integration with the EU could prove disastrous.
-
13-Jan-2011
BusinessWorld
A visiting British state official urged the Philippines yesterday to pick up its pace towards starting free trade talks with the European Unio, saying an agreement would boost export sales of all parties involved and also attract more investors into Manila’s public-private partnership projects for infrastructure.
-
13-Jan-2011
Post Chronicle
A senior Democratic lawmaker opposed to a US free trade agreement with Colombia headed to that country on Wednesday to see what progress has been made on labor concerns related to the pact.
-
13-Jan-2011
Better Farming
Canadian pork producers and packers fear consequences of lagging behind Chile, United States and Europe in key Asian market
-
13-Jan-2011
Business Standard
India and South African nations are expected to sign a trade agreement by the middle of this year, which aims at reducing tariffs on certain items traded between the nations, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said.
-
13-Jan-2011
Financial Express
Hard lobbying by the European Union, home to many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms like Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis and Roche, has struck a chord with India’s Prime Minister’s Office, which is now ’putting pressure’ on a reluctant commerce and industry ministry to include a
contentious IPR chapter in the proposed India-EU trade and investment pact.
-
12-Jan-2011
CIS India
Draft consolidated version of the IPR text in preparation for IPR discussions during the week of 12th July 2010 in Delhi.
-
12-Jan-2011
CIS
A draft of the IPR chapter of the EU-India FTA, made publicly available for
the first time, provides insight into
India’s response in July 2010 to several EU proposals on intellectual
property protection and enforcement.
-
12-Jan-2011
European Parliament
Members of the European Parliament advocate suspending negotiations for an “advanced status” for Tunisia, complementing its EU Association Agreement (FTA).
-
11-Jan-2011
Livemint
India and South Korea are set to expand a one-year-old bilateral trade pact at a time when India has concluded talks for a more ambitious agreement with Japan.
-
11-Jan-2011
GNA
Internet postings say the Korean government may not be trying hard to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease since the culling of livestock could help boost sales of American beef.
-
11-Jan-2011
FAS
Some US business representatives argue that enactment of the KOREU FTA before enactment of the KORUS FTA would give European competitors first mover advantages, but US multinational firms operating in the EU could benefit from the KOREU FTA.
-
10-Jan-2011
p2pnet
Hollywood wants TPP participants to “introduce statutory penalties for IP infringement, draft new laws regarding ISP liability, reduce the threshold to commercial scale infringement and target torrent search engines”. Look familiar to you?
-
10-Jan-2011
Blog for Iowa
When Senator Grassley, House Speaker Boehner and others speak for the need to ratify the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, there is an underlying presumption that members of the US middle class are either not paying attention or have forgotten that unrestricted access to US markets benefits the wealthy and puts pressure on the middle class.
-
9-Jan-2011
NZ Herald
Thirty years after officials began seriously negotiating the ground-breaking transtasman closer relations agreement, Australia is having doubts about the value of bilateral trade deals.
-
9-Jan-2011
Japan Times
Japanese and US officials said they will hold their first talks this week on Tokyo’s possible participation in negotiations for a trans-Pacific free-trade agreement.
-
8-Jan-2011
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was presenting a more unified front at the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations with the European Union (EU), said Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies, adding that a final agreement could possibly be reached by mid-2011.
-
8-Jan-2011
Negotiations on trade arrangements between the European Union (EU) and Taiwan are on the right track despite imbalance in bilateral trade and investment, according to a top EU diplomat in Taipei.
-
8-Jan-2011
Japan’s Kyodo News agency reports that the Japanese government apparently sees an expected visit to Tokyo by President Lee Myung-bak as a chance to resume stalled talks on a free trade agreement.
-
8-Jan-2011
Presented to the EU-India Summit on 10 December 2010
