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  • 21-Aug-2009 China Daily
    China-Australia free trade talks go ahead: report
    Free trade talks between China and Australia will go ahead in Beijing next month despite rocky relations between the two countries, Australia’s Trade Minister Simon Crean was reported as saying on Friday.
  • 19-Aug-2009 New Kerala
    Annul FTA: Solidarity to Centre
    The Solidarity Youth Movement in Kerala today urged the Cental Government to immediately abrogate the Free Trade Agreement signed with the 10-nation bloc ASEAN as it would adversely affect the country as a whole.
  • 19-Aug-2009
    ESA bloc to sign interim EPA with EU 29 August
    The Eastern-Southern Africa bloc will sign an interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union on 29 August in Mauritius, PANA learnt Tuesday from an official source.
  • 19-Aug-2009 Jakarta Post
    Minister asks for delay in ASEAN-China FTA start-up
    Industry Minister Fahmi Idris said on Tuesday that his ministry’s stance remained firm that the FTA — which will open up various sectors in both markets by gradual reduction of import duty tariffs — would bring more harm than benefits to Indonesia, given China’s superiority over Indonesia with regard to competitiveness.
  • 19-Aug-2009 The Namibian
    Africa: Industry sees red over red line
    Various participants in a talk in Namibia on the economic partnership agreement with the European Union yesterday saw red when Finance Permanent Secretary Calle Schlettwein dared suggesting that the veterinary fence in the North be gradually moved further North to offer those farmers the same market access as those south of the fence.
  • 18-Aug-2009 IPS
    Brazil-Mexico: Free trade to reduce dependence
    Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Felipe Calderón of Mexico agreed Monday to explore the possibility of a free trade agreement as part of a strategy to reduce their dependence on the industrialised world.
  • 18-Aug-2009 Radio Chine Internationale
    Les présidents brésilien et mexicain appellent à une alliance stratégique entre les deux pays
    Le président brésilien Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva et son homologue mexicain Felipe Calderon ont appelé lundi à une alliance stratégique entre les deux pays, sur la base du libre-échange et de la coopération entre les compagnies énergétiques d’Etat Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) et Petrobras.
  • 18-Aug-2009 Grainews.ca
    Panama lifts beef ban ahead of Canada FTA
    Panama has lifted its six-year-old BSE-related ban on Canadian beef as it concludes talks on a new free trade agreement with Canada that will improve access for other ag commodities.
  • 18-Aug-2009 AllAfrica.com
    West Africa: Traders reject EPA
    The National Association of Nigerian Traders have voiced concerns over what it calls inflexibility on the part of the European Union in the ongoing negotiations between it and the Economic Community of West Africa States over the Economic Partnership Agreement.
  • 17-Aug-2009
    FTA with ASEAN should be mutually beneficial:Bajaj
    The Free Trade Agreement signed by India with the 10-member bloc of ASEAN should be mutually beneficial, leading industrialist Rahul Bajaj has said.
  • 17-Aug-2009
    Project helps Guatemalans learn about international trade, agricultural marketing
    Through its Food for Progress efforts, the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture is helping farmers, agribusiness people and others in Guatemala make the most of producing, marketing and exporting a variety of agricultural products, said a project coordinator.
  • 17-Aug-2009
    Mexico’s president favor trade deal with Brazil
    Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he supports the idea of a free trade agreement between Brazil and Mexico, the two biggest economies in Latin America.
  • 17-Aug-2009
    FTA with NZ to improve time frames
    The bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between Malaysia and New Zealand, which is expected to be inked by year-end, seeks to improve the time frames agreed on earlier under the Asean-Australia and New Zealand FTA.
  • 17-Aug-2009
    Fiji will pull out from trade agreements
    Fiji’s Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama says Fiji will pull out of the Trade Agreement negotiations.
  • 17-Aug-2009
    Don’t relax steel import tariff barriers, say industry leaders
    Some of the country’s largest steelmakers have asked the government not to bring the commodity under the purview of the recently signed free-trade agreements with Asean and Korea.
  • 17-Aug-2009
    Asean+6 to create world’s biggest economic bloc
    Asean and its six major trading partners yesterday reaffirmed their resolve to create the world’s largest economic bloc through the "East Asia Free Trade Agreement" and "Comprehen-sive Economic Partnership in East Asia" within 15 years.
  • 16-Aug-2009 APP
    Dhaka to soon begin FTA talks with Islamabad
    Bangladesh will start talks with Pakistan for a separate free trade agreement this year after it negotiates with India.
  • 15-Aug-2009 Bloomberg
    Opposition lawmakers may stall Canada-Panama free trade accord
    The free trade agreement between Canada and Panama signed Aug. 11 may be stalled or even defeated in Canada’s Parliament unless Prime Minister Stephen Harper can convince at least one opposition party to overcome concerns about Panama’s tax policies.
  • 15-Aug-2009 Rediff
    Farmer’s body slams signing of FTA with ASEAN
    The All India Kisan Sabha has issued a statement criticising the centre for signing a Free Trade Agreement with the ASEAN nations.
  • 15-Aug-2009
    India-ASEAN FTA: Trade in goods (2009)