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  • 22-Dec-2008 Zawya
    GCC may have more FTAs in near future
    The GCC-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed last week comes almost a year after the six gulf nations announced a common market to remove trade barriers within themselves and to deal with the world as one entity. Economists predict that the agreement will serve as a precursor to more FTAs between Gulf and prominent Asian economies.
  • 22-Dec-2008 PressAfrik
    EPA: a contract to destroy the Senegalese’ flimsy economy
    The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is a danger to the fishing sector and the food safety in West Africa and particularly in Senegal.
  • 21-Dec-2008 Indopia
    ASEAN FTA by March first week: Jairam Ramesh
    The Free Trade Agreement between India and ASEAN will be signed in the first week of March 2009. It will lead to tough competition from Vietnam, whose productivity in tea, coffee and pepper is much higher than India’s.
  • 21-Dec-2008 The Hon Simon Crean MP
    Australia-Korea free trade agreement preparatory talks conclude
    Australia and Korea have concluded preparatory talks on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 21-Dec-2008 KBS
    Korean, EU trade ministers to meet in January
    South Korea and the EU hope to finalise their FTA in January
  • 21-Dec-2008 Vietnam Business News
    Japan to help Vietnam strengthen car, electronic parts industries
    According to JETRO, Japan will boost support to Vietnam next year, once the two governments sign an FTA, for the benefit of both Vietnamese and Japanese corporations
  • 20-Dec-2008 Xinhua
    EU to continue FTA talks with Peru, Colombia
    The European Union said Friday that it had decided to pursue a Free Trade Agreement deal with Peru and Colombia despite reservations from Bolivia and Ecuador.
  • 19-Dec-2008 VNA
    Vietnam, US holds first BIT negotiation
    The first round of negotiations on the Vietnam-US Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) was held in Washington from Dec. 15-18.
  • 19-Dec-2008 African Agriculture
    EU trade agreement with Central America may force ACP countries out of banana business
    The banana companies in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States maybe forced out of business following the European Union’s decision to negotiate a Free Trade agreement (FTA) with Central American countries in what the ACP Group describes as on “too generous” terms.
  • 19-Dec-2008 afrol News
    EU-Moroccan deal "illegal" - UN expert
    Former UN Legal Counsel Hans Corell calls the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement illegal because it includes the waters off Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
  • 19-Dec-2008 NYT
    South Korea trade fight gets ugly
    The parliamentary battle over a contentious free trade deal in South Korea led to a confrontation on Thursday in which opposition lawmakers used a sledgehammer to knock down the doors of a blockaded room in which a committee was discussing the agreement.
  • 19-Dec-2008 JETRO
    JETRO White Paper on International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (2008)
    Many Japanese companies, including those catering to domestic demand, are aiming to expand their sales in overseas markets. The focus in this White Paper is placed on emerging resource rich countries as new potential overseas markets for Japanese companies. Contains chapter on FTAs.
  • 18-Dec-2008 Reuters
    Bolivia to hold off on legal action vs US over trade
    Bolivia’s President Evo Morales said on Tuesday he would hold off on legal action over the US suspension of trade benefits for the Andean nation in hopes that President-elect Barack Obama will reverse the step.
  • 18-Dec-2008 IRIS
    India, Myanmar ink bilateral agreements
    India and Myanmar have signed Bilateral Investment Promotion Agreement (BIPA) and agreements on banking arrangements.
  • 18-Dec-2008 KBS
    Commitee opposes approval of KORUS FTA
    The Korean National Assembly’s agricultural and fisheries committee said Wednesday that the parliament should not ratify a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States at this juncture.
  • 17-Dec-2008 GMA News
    EU won’t renew special tariff rate for RP canned tuna
    The European Union (EU) will not renew a special tariff scheme for canned tuna from the Philippines and two other Southeast Asian countries, offering, instead, increased market access for the product in its 27 member-countries via a free trade agreement, the top EU representative in the Philippines said in a news conference here Wednesday.
  • 17-Dec-2008 Rethinking globalisation
    FTAs badly failing Australia
    The Australian Parliamentary Library has released a background note analysing Australia’s bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) which shows how clearly destructive they have been (although the analysis is only from an economic perspective).
  • 17-Dec-2008 Asia Times
    ASEAN tightens up to ride China’s rise
    The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launched a new joint charter on Monday that establishes mutual rules and commitments, moving the 41-year-old grouping one step closer to becoming a unified economic bloc.
  • 17-Dec-2008 Straits Times
    FTA benefits food, telco export
    Singapore-based exporters of food and telecommunications equipment look set to be among the major beneficiaries of the new free trade agreement signed with six Gulf states on Monday.
  • 16-Dec-2008 Prensa Latina
    US cuts Bolivian duty free export law
    The US officially shut out Bolivia from the benefits of the Law of Andean Trade Preference and Drug Enforcement Act (ATPDEA).