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  • 18-Feb-2009 PWW
    Free trade, jobs and democracy — a look at Singapore
    Given the evaporation of 533,000 American jobs last November, the largest downturn in thirty-four years and the prospects for even greater losses, it is vital that we have a public discourse on the cost of free trade and its twin — runaway corporations.
  • 18-Feb-2009 EU Observer
    EU downplays delay to Korean trade deal
    The EU intends to move ahead with a free-trade agreement currently being negotiated with South Korea despite delays and grumbles from the European car industry.
  • 18-Feb-2009 Semana
    Colombia-European Union FTA on track
    The FTA will not be negotiated taking the three Latin American countries as a block. The new format designed for the negotiations is an unique multi party agreement in which each country’s particular interests will be taken into consideration regarding specific products, but all framed within the same agreement.
  • 17-Feb-2009
    EC fact-finding trip heralds first steps towards stronger trade relations with Armenia
    A European Commission’s experts team led by Director Ms Ewa Synowiec from Directorate General for Trade will carry out a fact-finding mission to Yerevan on 18-19 February. This mission will help in mapping out a preparatory process for possible future negotiations of an ambitious free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and Armenia.
  • 17-Feb-2009
    Taiwan must not fall into PRC’s CECA trap
    The right-wing Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government is now preparing to literally give away the power to make or break Taiwan’s economy and officially surrender Taiwan’s sovereignty to the hostile People’s Republic of China.
  • 17-Feb-2009
    EU commissioner: EU-Syrian partnership agreement to be approved soon
    Visiting European Union (EU) Commissioner for External Affairs and Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner said here Monday that a long-delayed partnership agreement between the EU and Syria would be approved soon.
  • 17-Feb-2009
    Groser leaves for trip to sign Asean deal
    Trade Minister Tim Groser departs today for India and Thailand where he will sign the trade deal with the Asean group of nations.
  • 16-Feb-2009 WORC
    Livestock producers from Mexico, Canada and United States seek new trade policy and market reforms
    Representatives of consumer groups and livestock producer organizations from Canada, Mexico, and the United States today called on leaders to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and address concentration in livestock markets.s.
  • 15-Feb-2009
    Global crisis puts Jpepa to test
    The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa) would be put to a test under the current global financial turmoil and recession.
  • 15-Feb-2009
    EU is in no rush to wrap up partnership agreement with RP
    The European Union (EU) will not rush negotiations for a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the Philippines as it is bent on reaching a “quality” agreement.
  • 15-Feb-2009
    Migration issues a top priority in common market talks: EAC
    The on-going East African Common Market Protocol negotiations give migration issues priority, East African Community secretary-general Juma Mwapachi has said.
  • 15-Feb-2009
    Jordanians shun industrial zones
    Dust sticks to everything in the stark industrial streets of the northern Jordanian town of Duleil. Shop fronts covered in dun-coloured dirt reveal the tell-tale signs of a migrant labour economy: money transfer offices and gold jewellers.
  • 15-Feb-2009 VietnamNet
    EU hints at FTA with Vietnam
    The European Union is looking to sign a separate free trade agreement with Vietnam after experiencing a slow progress in negotiating a region-to-region free trade deal with ASEAN.
  • 14-Feb-2009
    Jamaica could become regional economic hub under EPA
    Jamaica could become the business and industrial hub of the Caribbean and the Americas, thanks to the opportunities presented under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), signed recently between CARIFORUM States and the European Union (EU).
  • 14-Feb-2009
    Union killings loom over U.S.-Colombia trade pact
    Guillermo Rivera Fuquene’s widow says her husband was kidnapped, tortured and killed just because he fought for the rights of Colombian workers and opposed President Alvaro Uribe’s free-market policies.
  • 14-Feb-2009
    Nigeria gets 600 million euros EU grant for trade and regional integration
    The European Commission (EC) will give Nigeria 600 million euros to assist it in the areas of trade and regional integration, the head of the EC delegation to Nigeria, Mr. Dennis Theulin said here Friday.
  • 13-Feb-2009
    Government balks at European Union rights standard
    Political concerns, particularly the country’s standard on human rights which is different from the European Union’s, will be a contentious issue in the draft of the proposed Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the EU, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.
  • 13-Feb-2009
    Koreans eye opportunities from free trade deal
    Hee-Beom Lee is a fierce free trade advocate who believes there are plenty of opportunities for Korean business people to invest in New Zealand including in critical sectors like dairy.
  • 13-Feb-2009 Daily Star
    Faruk now too critical of Tifa
    Bangladesh’s Commerce Minister Faruk Khan yesterday said the proposed latest draft of Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (Tifa) would be detrimental to Bangladesh’s interests.
  • 13-Feb-2009 Tempo
    Government to sign free trade agreement
    The government of Indonesia stated that it will go ahead and sign the ASEAN free trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand on February 27.