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  • 16-Oct-2008
    RI, Malaysia sign investment and trade agreement
    Indonesia and Malaysia had signed here on Wednesday the first Joint Investment and Trade Committee (JICT) agreement to improve trade and investment between the two countries.
  • 16-Oct-2008
    “Historic” Dominican-EU trade deal to be signed today
    The Dominican Government is scheduled formally sign an economic association agreement with the European Union today, making the country Latin America’s leader, after Chile, with the most Free Trade deals, now with 48 nations.
  • 16-Oct-2008
    ’India, Australia need to make adjustments for FTA’
    Both India and Australia will have to make "adjustments" for reaching at a market-opening Free Trade Agreement, a senior Australian official said on Wednesday.
  • 16-Oct-2008
    Labour-intensive exports to gain from India-Australia trade pact
    The proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and Australia could result in better market access for labour-intensive Indian exp orts including textiles, clothing and footwear where existing tariffs are high in Australia. While the sectors are perceived as “sensitive” in Australia, the country believes in elimination of tariffs on all sectors in its FTAs, Australian trade officials say.
  • 15-Oct-2008 VietNamNet
    EU seeks FTA with Vietnam
    Philippe Meyer, Head of the European Union’s Free Trade Agreement negotiation mission, told Vietnam’s press on October 14 that as the negotiations for the free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and ASEAN have been going slowly, the EU is considering moving ahead by kicking off separate negotiations with some ASEAN’s countries that are ready to open their markets, including Vietnam.
  • 15-Oct-2008 GMA News
    Int’l signature drive vs Jpepa launched in Bangkok
    An international signature drive has been launched in Bangkok, Thailand asking the Philippine Senate to recall the ratification of the controversial Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa).
  • 15-Oct-2008 IPS
    India, Brazil and South Africa should gang up with China
    The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) formation could have enough clout to stand up to the European Union and the US but it needs the help of emerging superpower China. Alternatively it should align with the BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) group.
  • 14-Oct-2008 NBR
    NZ keeps pressure on Japan economic partnership
    New Zealand government representatives are still pushing for some form of free-trade agreement with Japan.
  • 14-Oct-2008 Chatham Daily News
    CAW calls for a halt to Korean free trade agreement
    "Regardless of who is in power federally, we cannot afford a free trade agreement with Korea," Canadian Auto Workers member Mike Byrne said, noting Korea sold 130,000 vehicles in Canada in 2005 and Canada sold 400 vehicles in Korea that same year.
  • 14-Oct-2008 News Locale
    India-Myanmar trade and investment talks
    Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh is heading an official delegation for trade and investment talks with the Government of Myanmar in Mandalay today where he will take up the issue of expanding trade centres along the 1600-kms India-Myanmar border.
  • 13-Oct-2008 Reuters
    EU and Morocco eye free-trade deals
    The European Union hopes to reach a deal with Morocco on the liberalisation of agricultural trade this year and on services next year, the bloc said in a statement issued on Monday.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Kampala summit to decide the future of trade blocs
    The first ever tripartite summit of the East African Community, the Common Market for East and Southern Africa and the Southern Africa Development Community takes place in Kampala this week.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Policy delay hits textile industry
    Policy paralysis in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) is compounding problems for the region’s struggling clothing and textiles industry.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    India seeks expansion of border trade with Myanmar
    India would seek to expand border trade by opening more trading points along the 1,600-km border it shares with Myanmar during the two-day talks to be held at Mandalay in that country beginning Tuesday.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    IBSA nations set trilateral trade target of $15 bn
    Reflecting their growing economic ties, India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) have set an ambitious trade target of $15 billion between the three countries by 2010.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Free trade deal will push reform in region
    Advancing a bold free-trade agreement between Australia and Japan would be a "springboard" for influencing economic reform in the region.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    MPs want region to turn away from EU
    East Africa’s increasingly frosty economic ties with the West took a turn for the worse last week when the region’s parliamentarians called for their governments to scrap the interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Japan trade deal unlikely this year
    The proposed India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), involving trade in goods, services and investments, is unlikely to be signed this year.
  • 13-Oct-2008
    Int’l signature drive vs Jpepa launched in Bangkok
    An international signature drive has been launched in Bangkok, Thailand asking the Philippine Senate to recall the ratification of the controversial Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa).
  • 13-Oct-2008 PDI
    Supreme Court asked to nullify JPEPA
    The Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party and eight other organizations asked the Supreme Court on Monday to prevent the implementation of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) that the Senate ratified last week.