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  • 17-Aug-2010
    Skewed Afghan transit trade ‘pact’
    A trade agreement between any two countries is based on mutually beneficial terms while Pakistan has inked the Afghan – Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement that tends to compromise our national interests and will eventually hurt the domestic industry.
  • 16-Aug-2010
    Romulo warns Aquino against hasty decision on NAIA 3 case
    Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo advised President Aquino against deciding hastily on the case involving the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3), warning the government could be at a disadvantage.
  • 16-Aug-2010
    Dancing Around the WTO
    Whether possessing formal statehood or not, Taiwan like all other 152 members of the World Trade Organization has to elbow its way through foreign trade disputes. Sometimes it loses, sometimes it wins. But it has to abide by WTO regulations, one of which requires the reporting of trade agreements.
  • 16-Aug-2010
    Commerce Dept: No intention to hide facts in CEPA
    The Government has no intention to hide the facts in the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and Sri Lanka and all the details will be made public before agreement is signed, a senior official said.
  • 16-Aug-2010
    In pursuit of mutual prosperity
    Asia’s re-emergence as a global economic powerhouse is creating a greater degree of economic interdependence while at the same time helping to increase regional security among the Asean member nations.
  • 16-Aug-2010
    FTA talks likely to figure in Indo-Mexican meet
    Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks may be high on the agenda when Mexican foreign minister Patricia Espinosa arrives in India on Monday on a three-day visit.
  • 16-Aug-2010
    Iran, Syria plan to sign FTA
    Iran is in talks with Syria to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) after Damascus and Ankara reached a similar deal, says the Iranian commerce minister.
  • 16-Aug-2010
    Indian people’s call for ’Freedom from FTAs’
    On India’s Independence Day on 15th August 2010, recalling the fight against colonial powers that came in through the trade route, a people’s call for ’Freedom from FTAs’ has been given out through the Forum Against FTAs in India
  • 16-Aug-2010 Buenos Aires Herald
    Colombia, Venezuela to negotiate free trade
    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos unveiled that during the meeting he had with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez they agreed to continue with the creation of a judicial frame to allow free commerce between both countries.
  • 15-Aug-2010 Oxford Analytica
    Africa-EU economic agreement stalls
    A meeting in Brussels in late July set a new—and ambitious—end-2010 deadline for conclusion of a full SADC EPA agreement. However, as only four countries have so far signed an interim EPA, conclusion of a full agreement still appears a distant goal.
  • 15-Aug-2010 Epoch Times
    Speed of PACER-plus negotiations unfair on Pacific Island nations
    Australia and New Zealand are being accused of fast-tracking the Pacific-wide free trade agreement, PACER-Plus. Civil society organisations want a moratorium on negotiations.
  • 15-Aug-2010
    Lanka to expand trade with Bangladesh
    Trade between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will grow due to the vast opportunities in both countries to expand business, said High Commissioner of Bangladesh, Mahbub Uz Zamman.
  • 14-Aug-2010
    Taiwan government faces challenges after ECFA: scholars
    The signing of a historic trade pact between Taiwan and China was just the start of a wide range of economic and political tasks for the Taiwanese government to overcome and cautiously review, scholars said.
  • 13-Aug-2010
    Third farm bill hearing focuses on trade policy
    The agriculture community heard directly from U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk recently on trade priorities that have stalled despite their importance to the industry’s market share around the world.
  • 13-Aug-2010
    Peru, Korea to hold last round of FTA talks on August 30
    Peru and the Republic of Korea will hold the Fifth Round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations on August 30, and announce the end of negotiations, Foreign Minister and Tourism Martin Perez reported Friday.
  • 13-Aug-2010
    China, Switzerland agree to start FTA talks
    China and Switzerland on Friday agreed to start free trade agreement (FTA) talks, as the two states celebrate their 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
  • 12-Aug-2010 Marketwire
    Philip Morris International claims against Uruguay without merit.
    A legal analysis of the challenge launched by Philip Morris International found the company to be both unjustified and unreasonable in its opposition to Uruguay’s new tobacco packaging laws.
  • 12-Aug-2010 Taiwan News
    Taiwan-China ECFA needs renegotiation
    The hastily negotiated accord will inevitably face intensive pressure for renegotiation, as did the "beef protocol" signed between Taipei and Washington last year, particularly from the Cross-Strait Agreement Monitoring Alliance, composed of civic reform and social movement groups, which has issued a long list of problems with the agreeent
  • 12-Aug-2010 Latin Business Chronicle
    Asia seeks closer Colombia ties
    Japan’s planned bilateral investment treaty with Colombia could lead to an FTA, while China wants a Colombia FTA as well.
  • 12-Aug-2010
    KCCI Dispatches Economic Mission for KOR-US FTA
    The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) is giving careful consideration about sending an economic mission to the US for early settlement.