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  • 5-Feb-2009 Vue Weekly
    No such thing as free trade
    When Canadian Minister of International Trade Stockwell Day signed the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Peru on November 21, it was a happy day for Canada’s oil and gas sector, but the deal was celebrated instead as a landmark for human rights and democracy in Colombia.
  • 5-Feb-2009 Hankyoreh
    Blue House scales back its rush to FTA ratification
    Both the Korean government and the ruling party seem to be waiting for the Americans to make up their minds
  • 5-Feb-2009 Japan Times
    Japan-US FTA vital: ACCJ chief
    Getting a free-trade agreement between Japan and the United States is a much-needed goal, but it will require close multilevel exchanges, according to a top executive of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
  • 5-Feb-2009 The Nation
    FTA talks with the US to be revived
    Thailand and the United States will resume free-trade agreement talks after a three-year suspension of negotiations, as concerns over slumping economic growth affect the two nations’ overall trading prospects.
  • 5-Feb-2009 Jerusalem Post
    Amendment to Mexico-Israel accord to ease trade
    Recently it was reported that Israel and Mexio signed an amendment to their FTA of 2000 aimed at solving a problem faced by many companies that want to transit products made in either Israel or Mexico through a third country, such as the US or the EU.
  • 5-Feb-2009 BD News
    No ’secret deals’ being made: Faruq
    The Bangladesh government will not sign any "secret deal" with any country without a transparent decision from parliament, commerce minister Faruq Khan said on Wednesday. "The ongoing discussions on a possible TIFA with the USA and a likely transit accord with India will be tabled in parliament and drafts will be prepared with the help of highest-level experts."
  • 4-Feb-2009 New Nation
    Bangladesh to resume TIFA negotiation talks with US
    Bangladesh will resume the pending talks with the United States on reaching a deal—Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA)—as new governments in both the countries have assumed offices.
  • 4-Feb-2009 AS/COA
    A way forward for hemispheric trade
    The existing US strategy of hemispheric trade expansion has reached a point of diminishing returns and a new course must be pursued
  • 4-Feb-2009 bt
    Uncertainty over hope
    Egypt has never been a major trading partner for the US, and after a Free Trade Agreement between the two failed to get off the ground during the previous two administrations, the question now is whether Obama’s team will be open to new negotiations or whether Egypt should focus its efforts more narrowly.
  • 4-Feb-2009 APP
    Pakistan-Jordan agree to sign Free Trade Agreement
    Pakistan and Jordan have agreed to sign Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to deepen their existing economic and trade relations
  • 3-Feb-2009 TNI
    Undercutting Africa
    Why EPAs threaten the world’s forests and forest peoples
  • 2-Feb-2009 Semana
    Green light for Colombia to discuss FTA with the EU
    In the second week of February Colombia will start to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union. Semana International interviews Fernando Cardesa García, Ambassador of the Delegation of The European Commission to Colombia and Ecuador.
  • 2-Feb-2009
    EU-ASEAN FTA - draft IPR chapter (April 2008)
  • 2-Feb-2009 Norman Girvan
    Financial regime change? by Robert Wade - A comment
    In an article titled “Financial Regime Change” published in New Left Review, September-October 2008, Robert Wade has made a number of points which have salience in the context of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
  • 2-Feb-2009 Economic Times
    India seeks easy entry for drug cos in Japan
    India is set to ask Japan to facilitate the entry of Indian pharmaceutical companies in the world’s second-largest drug market. The matter will be raised when the two sides discuss a bilateral comprehensive economic partnership agreement.
  • 2-Feb-2009 BW
    EU, Philippines to resume talks on partnership deal
    European Commission delegates will be arriving in Manila next week to continue negotiations for an agreement that will govern the two economies’ political and economic relations, officials said.
  • 2-Feb-2009 Jordan Times
    Garment factories hit by high production costs
    Some garment factories in Jordan’s Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ) are relocating to other countries because of high production costs
  • 2-Feb-2009 Focus
    Trade roller-coaster: The ups and downs in 2008 and the road ahead
    It was a dizzying roller coaster-year for trade. As the multilateral trade talks faltered, bilateral and regional free trade and economic partnership agreements on the other hand surged, fueled mainly by the aggressive push by the most powerful economies - the US, EU, Japan and China - of their respective brands of commercial diplomacy.
  • 2-Feb-2009 AAP
    Australia, S Korea a step closer to FTA
    South Korea and Australia have taken another step towards signing a free trade agreement (FTA), despite the ongoing global economic crisis.
  • 2-Feb-2009 Houston Chronicle
    Small Mexican towns hurt as global economy goes south
    Amid the worldwide economic slump, many in Los Rodriguez and communities like it across Mexico that have heavily invested in trade with the United States are starting to feel - and fear - globalization’s sting.