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  • 8-Jul-2010
    Set up D-8 FTA, remove tariff barriers: PM
    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here today urged the Developing-8 member states to evolve their own mechanism for establishing a D-8 Free Trade Area (FTA) to increase trade and business.
  • 8-Jul-2010
    U.S. recognizes Taiwan’s right to sign FTAs
    U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Shear said Wednesday that Taiwan, as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) , is eligible to negotiate free trade agreements (FTA) with other WTO member states.
  • 8-Jul-2010
    Obama says he will submit Korea FTA to Congress as soon as possible
    U.S. President Obama said Wednesday he will submit the pending free trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia to Congress as soon as possible so their implementation could help create jobs and double U.S. exports within five years.
  • 7-Jul-2010 swissinfo
    Leuthard launches Efta deal in Indonesia
    Swiss President Doris Leuthard and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have decided to begin negotiations over a comprehensive accord between Efta and Indonesia.
  • 7-Jul-2010 WFN
    PCT pastors oppose ECFA for Aborigines’ and farmers’ sake
    Opening the floodgates to Chinese products will lead to mass unemployment among Aborigines and pose great challenges to ordinary Taiwanese farmers as well, say Aborigine pastors in Taiwan.
  • 7-Jul-2010
    Canada-Colombia FTA puts critical US wheat market at risk
    The Canadian parliament has ratified a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia that gives a major competitor an immediate price advantage in a market where US wheat exports had earned a dominant market share, says the US wheat industry
  • 7-Jul-2010 Business Day
    South Africa: Free-trade agreement with China not on cards
    SA will not pursue a conventional free-trade agreement with China as this is not in the interests of the country, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says.
  • 6-Jul-2010 dpa
    Trade talks between Singapore and EU well on track
    Trade negotiations between Singapore and the European Union are on track with an agreement expected by next year, an EU official said Tuesday.
  • 6-Jul-2010 WSJ
    D-8 Commission establishes Preferential Trade Agreement —report
    The Developing Eight, a group of developing countries, on Monday established a Preferential Trade Agreement to facilitate investment and economic cooperation among member states.
  • 5-Jul-2010
    DPP blasted for twisting president’s statements on ECFA
    The Presidential Office accused the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of twisting President Ma Ying-jeou’s remarks and stressed that the president has never made the statement that lawmakers cannot review the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) that Taiwan just signed with China.
  • 4-Jul-2010
    Philippines, EU can start implementing PCA
    The Philippines and the European Union (EU) can start implementing the Partnership Cooperation Agreement (PCA) that facilitates trade and investments and improve Filipino migration to Europe before ratification by the 27 EU member-states and the Philippines.
  • 4-Jul-2010
    Key talks trade with South Korea
    Trade will be top of the agenda when Prime Minister John Key meets with President Lee Myung-bak and Prime Minister Chung Un-chan in Korea later today.
  • 4-Jul-2010 AFP
    Obama risks party showdown on S.Korea deal
    US President Barack Obama is risking a revolt within his own party as he presses ahead on a free trade agreement with South Korea, setting the stage for a showdown after November legislative elections.
  • 4-Jul-2010 China Post
    Lawmakers pessimistic over ECFA review
    Taiwan’s opposition party the DPP is demanding that individual clauses of the ECFA be reviewed one by one at committee meetings where lawmakers could revise them.
  • 4-Jul-2010 Inquirer
    Aquino urged to disclose details of pact with EU
    Trade activists urged the newly-installed administration of Filipino President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to publicly disclose the content of a political framework agreement the Philippine government signed with the European Union early June.
  • 3-Jul-2010
    EU must boldly address the issues!
    As you may be well aware, Namibia has yet to sign the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU). It is gratifying to see the EU, in the face of Namibian insistence, eventually shifting and being prepared to further listen to Namibia, negotiating and thrashing out Namibia’s reservations about the contents of the IEPA.
  • 3-Jul-2010
    Cabinet hopes ECFA can be passed by late August
    Despite a partisan dispute over procedural issues, the Executive Yuan hopes that the legislature will pass the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China by late August to facilitate its implementation Jan. 1, 2011, an official said Saturday.
  • 3-Jul-2010
    Indo – Lanka FTA not up to expectations since a decade
    Ten years after the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and Sri Lanka which came into full existence in March 1, 2000, most heads of Sri Lankan chambers of commerce and industries say that its performance is not up to expectation even after a decade.
  • 2-Jul-2010 Bloomberg
    Plata says Colombia to sign investment treaty with Japan
    Colombia’s Trade Minister Luis Guillermo Plata says the pact with Japan may be signed "in the next couple of weeks" and he will visit South Korea to sign another treaty,
  • 2-Jul-2010
    East Africans celebrate the common market
    We welcome the East African Common Market. Granted, what is being celebrated today has not come with all the freedoms associated with such an entity.