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  • 27-Nov-2009 Viet Nam Net
    EU wants to negotiate FTA with Vietnam
    After failure in FTA negotiation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the last over one years, Schlegelmilch said that the EU wants to seek another approach before the Vietnam-EC Joint Committee’s meeting on November 26-27 in Hanoi.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Carbbean Net News
    ACP countries: Sidelined by Europe again?
    The European Union (EU) has not included in the Lisbon Treaty a crucial article that was a feature of treaties between the EU and African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Business Daily
    Arusha meeting key to breaking deadlock over EPAs trade deal
    Representatives of East Africa Community governments and the private sector hope to use a two-day meeting that starts in Arusha on Friday to break the deadlock with the European Commission over Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations.
  • 27-Nov-2009 EU Business
    Japan PM suggests trade pact to new EU leader
    Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama stressed the need for a free trade pact with Europe in a phone conversation on Thursday with incoming EU president Herman Van Rompuy, the foreign ministry said.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Times Live
    Farmers protected from Zimbabwe deal
    South African farmers in Zimbabwe will not forfeit their land or investments as a result of a bilateral agreement still to be signed, a Pretoria judge ordered.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Bloomberg
    US asks Japan to join Pacific-rim trade talks, Nikkei ays
    The US government wants Japan to join talks for a proposed free trade agreement involving Pacific Rim countries, Nikkei English News said. Australia, Vietnam, Peru, Malaysia, Singapore, Chile, New Zealand and Brunei have said they will enter the negotiations.
  • 27-Nov-2009 The Gov Monitor
    Australia to review impact of bilateral and regional trade agreements
    The review will examine the effects of bilateral and regional trade agreements on Australia’s trade and economic performance.
  • 26-Nov-2009
    Warning to the government against the corporatization of the Land and the Sea: Blockade!
    On 23/11/2009 the South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movement (SICCFM) organized a mass rally and blocked the new Mangalore port in Karnataka against the corporatization of land and sea, and the destructive cheap imports of food and crops because of WTO and FTAs
  • 26-Nov-2009 SW Radio Africa
    SA farmers threaten legal action over new investment pact with Zim
    The imminent signing of a new bilateral investment protection treaty (BIPPA) between Zimbabwe and South Africa could be halted, if an application in the Pretoria High Court on behalf of more than 200 farmers proves successful on Thursday.
  • 26-Nov-2009 Jakarta Globe
    Get ready for Asean-China free trade pact: Indonesian Industry Minister
    The FTA will allow thousands of products from China to enter Indonesia with no import duties. Millions of workers in the manufacturing sector may be affected.
  • 26-Nov-2009 Financial Express
    FTA with Gulf council on the backburner as talks put off
    In a significant setback to India’s ties with the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Free Trade Agreement discussions between the two sides have been postponed indefinitely.
  • 25-Nov-2009 Mangalorean
    Farmers protest import of edible oils
    Hundreds of farmers from across the State led by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha blocked the main entrance of the New Mangalore Port on Monday in a symbolic protest against the Union Government’s policy allowing the duty-free import of edible oils.
  • 25-Nov-2009 Business Mirror
    Jpepa tariff lifting worries auto workers
    The “horrors” of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa) continue to haunt the country.
  • 25-Nov-2009 Afrique Avenir
    Les Seychelles et la Turquie discutent de libre-échange
    Le gou­ver­ne­ment des Sey­chelles a en­ta­mé avec la Tur­quie des pour­par­lers pour la si­gna­ture d’un ac­cord de libre-​échange, qui doit ou­vrir de nou­veaux dé­bou­chés pour le sec­teur privé local, a ap­pris APA mardi dans la ca­pi­tale sey­chel­loise.
  • 25-Nov-2009 AFP
    Taiwan, US to resume trade talks next year: envoy
    Taiwan and the United States are expected to resume their dialogue on a key trade and investment pact in the new year, a US envoy said Wednesday.
  • 25-Nov-2009 DNA
    India ready to negotiate free-trade pact with US
    Prime minister Manmohan Singh indicated on Monday that he was open to negotiating a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the US, on the lines of a pact inked in August with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
  • 25-Nov-2009 Brck Press
    Canada, India agree to work towards free trade
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s trip to India resulted in the beginning of an agreement between the two countries to work towards negotiating a free-trade agreement.
  • 25-Nov-2009 Zimguardian
    Regional blocs to launch Free Trade Area by 2012
    Three regional trading blocs — the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa), East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) — plan to launch a Free Trade Area by 2012.
  • 25-Nov-2009 Peninsula
    Lobbies trying to stall FTA with EU: Attiyah
    Lobbies representing European petrochemicals and aluminum industries are attempting to stall the long overdue free trade agreement between the Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union because they are concerned about compettion from the GCC
  • 24-Nov-2009 IANS
    India, US sign pacts on investment promotion, sharing traditional knowledge
    India and the US have signed two inter-governmental agreements on traditional knowledge, intellectual property and investment promotion during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first state visit to the US.