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  • 6-Mar-2009 The Hindu
    Despite Nuclear deal, US sees hurdles in trade with India
    While the India-US civil nuclear deal has opened "the door even wider" for US exports, Washington says India’s tariff and tax regime, intellectual property rights policies, investment climate and regulatory hurdles still pose a problem.
  • 5-Mar-2009 Santiago Times
    Controversy surrounds Peru-Chile free trade agreement
    The Peruvian opponents’ principal argument is that Congress should have approved the FTA, as decreed by article 56 of the Constitution.
  • 5-Mar-2009 Fibre2Fashion
    "We oppose free trade negotiations with Vietnam" - Johnson, NCTO
    At a hearing on proposed free trade negotiations with countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership area (TPP), the US National Council of Textile Organisations opposed the proposed inclusion of Vietnam in the negotiations and said the textile industry would oppose any agreement that included Vietnam.
  • 5-Mar-2009 Chosun Ilbo
    Lawmakers postpone Korea-US FTA bill
    Ruling and opposition party lawmakers have tentatively agreed to postpone until April a decision on ratifying the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement concluded in 2007.
  • 5-Mar-2009
    Education outcomes of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA
    Normally the services chapter of an FTA covers movement of persons from one country to another in order to supply a service. This FTA is unusual because it contains both a chapter on trade in services and a separate chapter, and accompanying schedule of commitments, in respect of the movement of natural persons.
  • 4-Mar-2009 TVNZ
    South Korean president supports Aust FTA
    South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak Lee will announce the start of formal negotiations towards a free trade agreement with Australia in Canberra on Thursday.
  • 4-Mar-2009 Panama Star
    US lawmakers rally against Panama FTA
    54 democrat congressmen sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to forego the Free Trade Agreement with Panama, because it has refused to sign any tax information exchange treaties.
  • 4-Mar-2009 Blacklisted News
    Trade Wars: The Rise of Protectionism?
    Around the world, many are looking to President Barack Obama for leadership and feel that he is the one who can save the current global trading system. Does this system really work? Is it worth saving?
  • 4-Mar-2009 Business Standard
    Add human rights to FTA talks: EU
    A draft report prepared by Members of the European Parliament could potentially derail negotiations between India and the European Union on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement involving duty-free trade of goods, services and investment. The report calls for the inclusion of human rights and democracy issues in the CEPA talks and an international investigation into “extra judicial killings” in Jammu & Kashmir.
  • 3-Mar-2009
    Koreans keep the free trade ball rolling
    South Korean President Lee Myung-bak put on an impressive show in Auckland yesterday as he talked tough about the necessity for world leaders not to fall prey to anti-protectionist forces.
  • 3-Mar-2009
    France To Maintain Official Development Assistance To Ghana
    Despite the global financial turmoil, the government of France will continue to provide its official development assistance to Ghana.
  • 3-Mar-2009
    Forum slams proposed ECFA
    Critics of the government yesterday told a forum that the government’s proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China was tantamount to a “one China market.”
  • 3-Mar-2009
    Free trade deal should exclude shipbuilding, Stoffer says
    Peter Stoffer hopes to turn the tide on a controversial free trade agreement that could sink shipbuilding in Canada.
  • 3-Mar-2009
    Trade unions set terms for EPA talks
    The East Africa Trade Union Congress (EATUC) has joined groups that want the deadline for the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) between the East Africa Community and the European Commission extended.
  • 3-Mar-2009
    Law firms from FTA partners to open local offices
    The National Assembly passed a bill yesterday allowing law firms from the United States and countries that have free trade agreements with South Korea to set up local branches to provide legal consulting services.
  • 3-Mar-2009 Bangkok Post
    Europe open to Thai trade talks
    The European Union is willing to begin bilateral free trade talks with Thailand in a process that would move together with existing Asean-EU talks, said Philippe Meyer, the directorate-general for trade at the European Commission. "It takes time for a region to behave like a region. So we need to go faster," he said.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Washington Post
    EU takes "realist" tone with Colombia
    While some in the EU have voiced concern about Colombia’s human rights failures, Europe’s top politicians do not seem interested in linking this problem to the FTA.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Bloomberg
    Obama to push Panama accord, work on Colombia, Korea
    President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to approve a long-delayed free-trade agreement with Panama and work to resolve remaining issues with the South Korea and Colombia accords so they can be ratified.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Palestine Chronicle
    Sustaining global solidarity after Gaza
    In South America, serious pressure is building against the Israel-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA), threatening to derail it entirely. South American social movements, who have years of experience fighting against free trade, have integrated Palestine solidarity into their general work.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Straits Times
    Taiwan renames trade pact
    The four-letter acronym of a proposed trade pact has sparked such a storm in Taiwan that the government had to change its name.