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27-Sep-2010
The Standard
Farmers in the North Rift have opposed a planned trade agreement between the Government and the European Union (EU) that they said risked robbing them of their livelihoods.
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27-Sep-2010
La Presse Affaires
Contrairement à l’ALENA, l’entente avec l’UE pourrait englober l’accès aux appels d’offres des provinces et des municipalités, la mobilité de la main d’oeuvre, les services financiers, la reconnaissance des titres de compétence, entre autres.
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27-Sep-2010
FIS
The Early Harvest Protocol of the Partial Agreement for Bilateral Preferences negotiated with Thailand will take full effect in the first half of next year, according to Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur).
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27-Sep-2010
Japan Times
In less than two months, Pacific Rim countries are expected to present a clear picture on how they will pursue their long-term vision of creating a regionwide free-trade zone.
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25-Sep-2010
Spurred on by its recent trade deal with South Korea, the European Union is pursuing an early conclusion of talks with Latin America’s Mercosur trade bloc as part of its strategy to expand its economic prospects.
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25-Sep-2010
Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and his British counterpart William Hague agreed Friday that their countries will work toward the launch of negotiations on signing a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union, a Japanese official said.
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25-Sep-2010
MSN
India and Canada are trying to resolve differences over the proposed investment protection agreement while negotiations on a trade opening pact are underway, visiting Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said.
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25-Sep-2010
Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) announced that the Early Harvest Protocol signed by Peru and Thailand in 2005 would enter into force in the first half of next year.
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25-Sep-2010
TORONTO, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Canada and India said on Friday they have endorsed the findings of a joint study calling for negotiations to begin on reaching a "substantive and ambitious" bilateral free trade agreement.
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24-Sep-2010
Negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union, the world’s largest economy, and India, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, took one more step towards completion today, with chief negotiators concluding 2-day talks in Brussels.
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24-Sep-2010
L’Union européenne a donné jeudi son feu vert à un accord de libre-échange d’une ampleur sans précédent avec la Corée du Sud, l’Italie ayant levé un veto qu’elle brandissait du fait d’inquiétudes pour son industrie automobile, a annoncé la présidence belge de l’UE.
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24-Sep-2010
Focus Taiwan
Taiwan and the United States are likely to resume talks in the next few months on their Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) after a hiatus of three years, Washington-based US scholars said Thursday.
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24-Sep-2010
ITN
If not corrected, the flaws of the current BIT practice could backfire against European environmental and other public interest policies and cost European taxpayers dearly in compensations to foreign investors.
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24-Sep-2010
FT
The Palestinian Authority has opened trade talks with Brazil, Argentina and other Latin American countries, in an effort to boost economic and political ties with the fast-growing Mercosur bloc.
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24-Sep-2010
Bloomberg
The trade agreement will give Canadian companies access to the government procurement market in the Central American country, including the expansion of the Panama Canal, Van Loan said at the time.
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24-Sep-2010
Vancouver Sun
In a speech Thursday at an event organized by the Fraser Institute, Canadian trade minister Peter Van Loan appeared amused at the diplomatic necessity of avoiding the term "free trade" when negotiating with the Europeans.
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23-Sep-2010
BS
Nine years after New Delhi started implementing its Plan B — bilateral trade agreements — to beat the impasse at the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of liberalisation talks, India seems to be finally rolling.
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22-Sep-2010
AAP
Australia’s National Farmers Federation president David Crombie says Korea has agreements with Australia’s two biggest competitors, the United States and the European Union, which could sideline Australian farm exports once ratified.
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22-Sep-2010
Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs
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22-Sep-2010
Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan has fallen behind other nations in its EPA strategy, laments the Yomiuri Shimbun.
