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  • 14-Oct-2008 NBR
    NZ keeps pressure on Japan economic partnership
    New Zealand government representatives are still pushing for some form of free-trade agreement with Japan.
  • 14-Oct-2008 Chatham Daily News
    CAW calls for a halt to Korean free trade agreement
    "Regardless of who is in power federally, we cannot afford a free trade agreement with Korea," Canadian Auto Workers member Mike Byrne said, noting Korea sold 130,000 vehicles in Canada in 2005 and Canada sold 400 vehicles in Korea that same year.
  • 14-Oct-2008 News Locale
    India-Myanmar trade and investment talks
    Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh is heading an official delegation for trade and investment talks with the Government of Myanmar in Mandalay today where he will take up the issue of expanding trade centres along the 1600-kms India-Myanmar border.
  • 13-Oct-2008 Reuters
    EU and Morocco eye free-trade deals
    The European Union hopes to reach a deal with Morocco on the liberalisation of agricultural trade this year and on services next year, the bloc said in a statement issued on Monday.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Kampala summit to decide the future of trade blocs
    The first ever tripartite summit of the East African Community, the Common Market for East and Southern Africa and the Southern Africa Development Community takes place in Kampala this week.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Policy delay hits textile industry
    Policy paralysis in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) is compounding problems for the region’s struggling clothing and textiles industry.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    India seeks expansion of border trade with Myanmar
    India would seek to expand border trade by opening more trading points along the 1,600-km border it shares with Myanmar during the two-day talks to be held at Mandalay in that country beginning Tuesday.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    IBSA nations set trilateral trade target of $15 bn
    Reflecting their growing economic ties, India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) have set an ambitious trade target of $15 billion between the three countries by 2010.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Free trade deal will push reform in region
    Advancing a bold free-trade agreement between Australia and Japan would be a "springboard" for influencing economic reform in the region.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    MPs want region to turn away from EU
    East Africa’s increasingly frosty economic ties with the West took a turn for the worse last week when the region’s parliamentarians called for their governments to scrap the interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Japan trade deal unlikely this year
    The proposed India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), involving trade in goods, services and investments, is unlikely to be signed this year.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Int’l signature drive vs Jpepa launched in Bangkok
    An international signature drive has been launched in Bangkok, Thailand asking the Philippine Senate to recall the ratification of the controversial Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa).
  • 13-Oct-2008 PDI
    Supreme Court asked to nullify JPEPA
    The Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party and eight other organizations asked the Supreme Court on Monday to prevent the implementation of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) that the Senate ratified last week.
  • 13-Oct-2008 IPS
    EU: Defiant Guyana to be punished
    The European Union is preparing to impose swingeing taxes on goods imported from Guyana as punishment for the Caribbean island’s refusal to accept a free trade accord. Patrick Gomes, Guyana’s ambassador to Brussels, said that the EU’s move could lead to his country losing €70m (US$94m) each year.
  • 13-Oct-2008 MENAFN
    Jordan, Belgium to discuss trade ties
    During this visit, the text of a bilateral investment treaty will be initialled by Maen Nsour, chief executive officer of Jordan Investment Board, and the Belgian ambassador in Jordan, Jo Indekeu.
  • 13-Oct-2008 BusinessWorld
    Talks on RP-EU cooperation deal to start next year
    The Philippines and the European Union have agreed to start formal talks in February for a political cooperation agreement (PCA) that will govern political and economic relations and lead to an EU-ASEAN free trade deal. Human rights, intellectual property rights and climate change will be among the areas covered by the agreement.
  • 12-Oct-2008
    The wrongful acts of independent state entitites
    In spite of the fact that consent is the main building block of arbitration, arbitral awards have been steady for some years that a claimant need not have a contractual relationship with a respondent state to initiate arbitral proceedings versus this state, i.e. states unexpectedly were made respondents in arbitrations under arbitration clauses they have never approved or even bargained.
  • 12-Oct-2008 New Nation
    WB opposes signing bilateral FTA’s: Dhaka fails to narrow trade gap with SAARC states
    Opposition from World Bank keeps Bangladesh away from signing bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with SAARC member countries, a top official of the Commerce Ministry said yesterday.
  • 11-Oct-2008
    Vice president touts benefits of Taiwan-ASEAN free trade pact
    Vice President Vincent Siew said Saturday that a free trade agreement between Taiwan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) would be mutually beneficial in terms of economic development as well as regional peace and stability.
  • 11-Oct-2008
    ’Congress Unlikely to Ratify FTA This Yr’
    Ambassador to Washington Lee Tae-sik says if the U.S. Congress fails to ratify the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement this year, the effort would resume after 2010.