Articles by language
-
9-Nov-2010 Japan Times
Top APEC officials lay groundwork for regional FTA
Senior regional officials concluded their meeting Monday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Yokohama with a decision to pursue a regionwide free-trade zone. -
9-Nov-2010 BusinessWorld
Gov’t pressed to start free trade talks with European Union
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday renewed calls for the government to start negotiating a free trade deal with the European Union, after noting that more Southeast Asian neighbors have begun talks with the Western bloc. -
9-Nov-2010 Radio Fiji
Fiji stops Pacific sugar exports to meet EU quota
Fiji has ceased exporting sugar to the Pacific region in order to meet its export quota to the UK (meaning Tate & Lyle) under preferential prices of the Economic Partnership Agreement. -
8-Nov-2010 Al Jazeera
In depth: EU deal threatens HIV drug supplies
How a trade deal being brokered between Europe and India could cut off the developing world’s supply of cheap medicines. Al Jazeera reports. -
8-Nov-2010 AP
APEC debates becoming body that can forge FTA
Pacific Rim economies are debating whether to change the informal Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum so that it can negotiate the creation of a Pacific-wide free trade zone. -
8-Nov-2010 Reuters
Thousands protest in Seoul before G20 summit
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday in a largely peaceful protest against this week’s G20 summit as the city went on heightened alert for the meeting of world leaders. -
8-Nov-2010 Japan Times
Protesters call for end to APEC meets
"Japan is talking about a free-trade agreement for the Asia-Pacific region. But for Asian laborers, realization of this goal will mean increased unemployment or the shedding of full-time employees in favor of contract workers and the lowering of wages and salaries," union representatives say -
8-Nov-2010 FT
Washington to push Seoul on bilateral deal
This week’s talks are likely to try to come up with a side letter about the car market rather than attempt to reopen fundamentally the draft deal, a course of action to which Seoul is vehemently opposed. -
8-Nov-2010 NZ Herald
Jane Kelsey: Trading sovereignty for short-term advantage
The TPPA would impose the most far-reaching obligations on New Zealand since the Closer Economic Relations agreement with Australia, deepening our commitment to free market policies that affect our jobs, our social and cultural well-being, and ultimately the sovereignty to make decisions as a nation. -
7-Nov-2010 FPIF
Obama’s trip to India: Don’t rush into a bilateral investment treaty
The negotiations over a US-India bilaterals investment treaty were begun by the Bush administration. Obama officials have said they won’t complete the deal until they finish up a review of the US model BIT. -
7-Nov-2010 Japan Times
Farmers take Japan’s place at TPP bargaining table
The Japanese government did not clearly state its stance in the basic FTA policy it set out Saturday and only stipulated that it will start approaching the countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks. -
5-Nov-2010 The Hill
Ford slams South Korea trade deal as Obama officials renew talks in Seoul
Ford, the US car company, has launched an aggressive advertising campaign against the South Korea free trade agreement, which it argues would lock in unfair trade between the countries. -
5-Nov-2010 Montreal Gazette
Potash decision unlikely to hurt Canada-EU trade talks
The Canadian government’s rejection of the Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. takeover is raising European eyebrows but isn’t expected to dampen the prospects of a Canada-European Union free trade deal, say observers. -
5-Nov-2010 Reuters
Q+A: Japan has headache over US-led free trade deal
Japan is having trouble forging a consensus on joining an Asia-Pacific free trade initiative, a pact that business lobbies want the government to pursue but that long-protected and politically powerful farmers are resisting. -
4-Nov-2010 Jakarta Post
RI, Australia to start talks on economic partnership
Indonesia and Australia have agreed to begin negotiations to create a framework for a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) to further enhance trade and investment exchanges between both countries. -
4-Nov-2010 Mainichi
APEC to refer to Pacific FTA as pathway to free trade area: draft
At the annual APEC summit meeting in Yokohama on Nov. 13 and 14, the 21-member forum is planning to specify for the first time in its declaration the possible efforts to realize the long-term goal of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific. -
4-Nov-2010 Japan Times
Cabinet to declare stance on trans-Pacific FTA on Nov. 9
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s Cabinet will adopt on Nov. 9 a basic policy on free trade, including its stance on a US-backed trans-Pacific free-trade agreement, national policy minister Koichiro Genba said Tuesday. -
3-Nov-2010 S2B Network
Member states put corporate rights over public interests in EU investment policy
Trade justice campaigners working together in the “Seattle to Brussels Network” are calling for a radical overhaul of international investment policy. -
2-Nov-2010 IPS
Free trade deals bait Indian fishermen
A series of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) is threatening the livelihoods of India’s fishermen on the 8,000 km peninsular coastline — among the longest in the world — and the diets of millions of Indians for whom fish is a cheap source of protein. -
2-Nov-2010 Bernama
Malaysia-EU FTA set to be concluded by 2012, says EU official
The FTA will open up trade in services beyond the level of commitment undertaken by EU and Malaysia in the WTO, says EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation to Malaysia, Vincent Piket.