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10-May-2010
Close economic cooperation between India and Asean can prove to be a potent force in shaping the economic fortunes of South and South-east Asia over the next decade. Standard & Poor’s believes, however, that recent Indo-Asean increases in trade and investment flows still fall well short of their full potential.
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10-May-2010
It’s unsettling to know that even on the heels of the recent free-trade themed Canada-EU summit in Brussels, most Canadians haven’t a clue that our federal and provincial governments are negotiating with the European Union what could be the largest, most significant bilateral trade deal in history.
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10-May-2010
L’Humanité
Le sixième sommet UE-Amérique latine pourrait être boycotté par les présidents de l’hémisphère Sud. En marge de cette grand-messe, le sommet alternatif dénonce les accords de libre-échange et ses conséquences sociales.
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10-May-2010
Telegraph
Mining shares plunged last week after Kevin Rudd, Australia’s prime minister, proposed a 40pc tax on mining profits, arguing that Australia’s mining boom was benefiting shareholders based abroad
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10-May-2010
Journal of Commerce
British Columbia and Alberta have signed an economic partnership with Saskatchewan that creates Canada’s biggest interprovincial free trade market and is designed to promote trade with Asia.
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10-May-2010
The Hill
We’re all entitled to our own opinion about NAFTA-style trade pacts, but we’re not entitled to our own facts. The most peculiar claim is that the US has trade surpluses with its FTA partners, when in fact the data show we have a deficit.
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9-May-2010
Inside Costa Rica
Panama’s Commerce and Industry Minister Roberto Henriquez will fly to Toronto, Canada, to sign on May 14 a free trade agreement.
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8-May-2010
The Economic Times
India is not likely to entertain requests for opening government procurement in its FTA negotiations with EU and Japan respectively.
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7-May-2010
Toronto Star
Canadian critics of the EU free trade deal believe that Harper’s real aim in the negotiations is to get rid of barriers to free trade within Canada.
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7-May-2010
AFP
The United States said Thursday it was keen for Malaysia to enter negotiations on a trans-Pacific trade deal after the two countries shelved talks on a bilateral agreement.
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7-May-2010
Reuters
The EU said in February it wanted a clear timetable for signing the deal, but Tanzania’s trade minister said then the EAC would not budge unless Brussels gave firm commitments on development assistance, especially for infrastructure.
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7-May-2010
AFP
Le gouvernement français s’oppose à une reprise des négociations avec les pays du Mercosur (Argentine, Brésil, Uruguay et Paraguay) qui pourraient fragiliser l’agriculture française et européenne
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7-May-2010
Bernama
The Malaysian business community hopes the government can speed up the decision to start free trade agreement negotiations with the European Union, Malaysia-China Business Council Joint Secretary-General Datuk Dr Michael Yeoh said.
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6-May-2010
On Wednesday, China once again put conditions on the government of President Ma Ying-jeou. This time it was Wang Yi, director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, who set the conditions by saying that, as long as the two sides of the Taiwan Strait can work together to oppose Taiwanese independence and uphold the “1992 consensus,” that will be the political guarantee for cross-strait cooperation.
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6-May-2010
Australia Thursday said it had taken a major step towards a free trade agreement with India, with a study carried showing a bilateral deal would offer "significant economic benefits" to both sides.
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6-May-2010
Taiwan Today
The Ma Ying-jeou administration would seek to nullify the economic cooperation framework agreement expected to be signed with mainland China if the Taiwanese people vetoed the pact via a referendum, Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang said in the Legislative Yuan May 5.
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6-May-2010
Focus Taiwan
The Taiwanese government working toward the goal of signing the proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China in June
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6-May-2010
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6-May-2010
Asia Times Online
The US-China Congressional Committee has released a study it commissioned in June 2009 for the purposes of investigating why the United States and China have not yet executed a bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
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6-May-2010
BusinessDay
Parliament’s trade and industry committee wants South African MPs to play a greater role in negotiating international agreements and has urged that the legislative framework and rules for dealing with them be reviewed.
