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  • 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.
  • 1-Jul-2010
    Taiwan has chance to sign FTAs with trading partners: president
    Taiwan has a chance to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) or similar economic cooperation agreements with its trade partners after the signing of a trade pact with China, President Ma Ying-jeou said Thursday.
  • 1-Jul-2010
    Korea seeking to resume FTA talks with Mexico
    President Lee Myung-bak will hold a summit with Mexican President Felipe Calderon Thursday (local time) to discuss an early resumption of talks on signing a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), Cheong Wa Dae said.
  • 30-Jun-2010
    Korea not to budge on FTA concessions with U.S.
    Kim Jong-hoon, the trade minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said yesterday that there would be no renegotiations or changes made to the original Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement.
  • 30-Jun-2010 GNA
    Ghana wins arbitration dispute with German investor
    The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has, in a landmark ruling, granted an award in favour of Ghana over an arbitration dispute instituted against her on September 24, 2007 by a German investment company, Gustav F. W. Hamester.
  • 30-Jun-2010
    Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the U.S.- South Korea Trade Agreement
    We remain deeply concerned about and strongly opposed to the U.S.-South Korea trade agreement as negotiated by the Bush Administration. The agreement would exacerbate our already lopsided trade relationship with South Korea, putting at risk thousands of good U.S. jobs in the auto, steel, and other industrial sectors.
  • 30-Jun-2010
    Korea seeks FTAs with C. American nations
    South Korea is seeking to boost its partnership with Panama, a small Central American country that has strong ties with the United States, politically and economically, and explore the possibility of signing free trade agreements with regional players with the nation’s help.
  • 30-Jun-2010
    S. Korea, Panama agree to boost trade, economic ties
    South Korea and Panama agreed Monday to forge a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) at an early date and expand economic partnership.
  • 30-Jun-2010 Hankyoreh
    Lee administration considers expansion of US beef imports
    Experts say measures implemented after the 2008 candlelight vigil demonstrations may be sacrificed for ratification of the KORUS FTA　
  • 29-Jun-2010 Reuters
    G20 leaders drop Doha target, see smaller deals
    World leaders dropped a commitment on Saturday to complete the troubled Doha trade round this year and vowed to push forward on bilateral and regional trade talks until a global deal could be done.
  • 29-Jun-2010
    EU-Canada FTA (CETA) - consolidated text of the Investment and Services Chapter
    Consolidated CETA text of the Investment and Services Chapter as of at 13.1.2010
  • 29-Jun-2010 FT
    China and Taiwan sign landmark deal
    The agreement that negotiators signed in the Chinese city of Chongqing represents the first phase in trade liberalisation rather than a comprehensive free trade agreement. It also has China doing most of the economic opening in the initial round.
  • 28-Jun-2010 Shanghai Daily
    AmCham urges FDI reforms in US
    The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai has urged the United States to depoliticize its regulatory process of identifying investment deals chosen for review, to boost Chinese outbound investment in the US.