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  • 25-Jun-2008
    Labour movement left out of EPA negotiations
    Senior Trade Union Leaders in the region are upset that the Caribbean Labour Movement was not afforded enough imput in shaping the European Union CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) initialled last December.
  • 25-Jun-2008 AFP
    US, Vietnam launch talks for investment treaty
    The United States and Vietnam have agreed to launch talks for a bilateral investment treaty as their companies signed several deals during a visit by Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Tan Dung.
  • 25-Jun-2008 Economic Times
    S Korea set to resume US beef imports, more protests called
    South Korea will resume US beef imports from Thursday after securing extra safeguards, officials said, prompting calls for fresh anti-mad cow rallies which have brought thousands on to the streets.
  • 25-Jun-2008 Embassy Magazine
    Wrangling over Colombia trade deal continues
    A sharply divided Commons’ trade committee has taken a hard line on the Canada-Colombia free trade pact, but supports an eventual agreement.
  • 24-Jun-2008 Thompson Financial
    Thailand, US to resume free trade talks - official
    Thailand plans to resume free trade talks with the United States, which were put on hold after a military coup in 2006, a Thai government spokesperson said today.
  • 24-Jun-2008 Bernama
    Malaysia-US FTA negotiations still continuing
    Free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Malaysia and the United States are expected to resume next month from July 14 to 18.
  • 24-Jun-2008 Chosun Ilbo
    US senators say additional beef talks violate April deal
    US Senator Max Baucus says there’s no scientific proof for Korea’s claim that beef from older cattle pose a health risk. Other senators echoed his words adding that the latest moves could bring difficulties to passing the bilateral free trade deal.
  • 24-Jun-2008 Emirates Business
    UAE-Japan to benefit from FTA
    A UAE-Japan FTA should focus on bridging the gap in trade between the two sides and encourage Japan to pump more investment into the UAE to enable it to acquire technology, which is needed for its economic diversification programme, said the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research.
  • 24-Jun-2008 ABS-CBN
    Europe drive vs workers assailed
    A regional coalition of civil-society organizations in Southeast Asia has criticized the European Parliament decision mandating the forcible deportation of undocumented workers in Europe. The decision negates the goals of the proposed EU free-trade deal with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), seeking to open trade and investments including the seamless entry of Asean workers to Europe.
  • 23-Jun-2008 PIB
    India-Singapore IPR cooperation likely to be signed soon
    Shri Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, has stated that a Bilateral Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Cooperation between India and Singapore will be signed shortly.
  • 23-Jun-2008 Chosun Ilbo
    Trade minister recounts beef talks with US
    "Whenever the negotiations went against us or whenever the US side cited ’science’ (to emphasize that US beef is scientifically safe), we pointed to the photo [of the June 10 candlelight vigil in downtown Seoul, with the largest number of protesters] and said, ’Look at this. Do you think this can be explained with science?’ "
  • 23-Jun-2008 Hankyoreh
    New beef agreement still leaves room for mad cow fears
    While the Korean government claims it has made a “better-than-expected achievement” through additional negotiations between South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon and US Trade Representative Susan Schwab over import terms for US beef, it hasn’t been enough to defuse public fears over the safety of the American meat.
  • 23-Jun-2008 Yonhap
    Seoul to implement new US beef import conditions this week: officials
    The South Korean government will put new U.S. beef import terms into effect as early as this week, officials said on Monday, signaling a full resumption of imports, which have been suspended for nearly five years.
  • 23-Jun-2008 China Daily
    China: Free trade ahead
    China is now involved in 12 FTA negotiations with 29 countries and regions including the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, EU, Africa and Oceania
  • 23-Jun-2008
    Serving whose interests? The political economy of trade in services agreements
    There is a fundamental contradiction between the global market model and the intrinsically social nature of services
  • 23-Jun-2008 CAW
    Asian women workers’ declaration on free trade agreements
    There is increasing and irrefutable evidence that free trade deals devalue and homogenise cultures, stunt economic development, displace communities and are major drivers of increasing rural and urban poverty. Women are disproportionately affected.
  • 21-Jun-2008 Radio Australia
    Japan’s Parliament approves free trade with ASEAN
    Japan’s Parliament, the Diet has endorsed a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The agreement will come into force on the first day of the second month after Japan and at least one of the 10 ASEAN member complete domestic procedures, such as parliamentary endorsement.
  • 21-Jun-2008 The Canadian
    Canadians can restore their rights and freedoms by cancelling NAFTA
    The selling of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to Canadians was based upon a basic fundamental lie. That lie is that there was no free exchange of goods and services between Canada and the United States until the late 1980’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA), that spawned NAFTA. Canadians have accordingly been conned into a belief that the cancelling of NAFTA would result in the subsequent collapse of the Canadian economy.
  • 21-Jun-2008 The Gazette
    Not much hope for Charest’s vision of Canada-Europe free trade agreement
    At last week’s international economic forum in Montreal, there was plenty of talk about an initiative being pushed by Premier Jean Charest: a Canada-Europe free trade agreement.
  • 21-Jun-2008 AIC
    EU decision to upgrade relationship with Israel reveals Europe’s selective adherence to human rights standards
    Monday’s announcement for increased relations concerns three areas: diplomatic cooperation; Israel’s participation in European plans and agencies; and an examination of possible Israeli integration into the European Single Market.