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  • 6-Mar-2009 Daily Times
    Pakistan seeks UAE’s help for FTA with GCC
    Pakistan has sought market access from Canada and help from UAE for early completion of Free Trade Agreement with Gulf Cooperation Council.
  • 6-Mar-2009 ABC
    Beef industry keen to see Korean FTA signed
    Australia’s beef industry will be the big winner if free trade talks between the Government and South Korea are successful.
  • 6-Mar-2009 Daily Times
    India’s trade talks with EU may collapse
    India’s trade negotiations with the 27-nation European Union, the country’s largest trade partner accounting for 21 percent of merchandise exports, are threatened to collapse because of the non-trade issues like human rights and democracy issues including investigations into the alleged “extra judicial killings” in Jammu and Kashmir injected in the talks.
  • 6-Mar-2009 Bloomberg
    China seeks ‘comprehensive’ economic pact with Taiwan
    China will push for a comprehensive economic accord with Taiwan and wants to broaden discussions to involve military issues, Premier Wen Jiabao said.
  • 6-Mar-2009 Long Live Palestine
    Sign the petition to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement
    Activists from The Peace Cycle will cycle from the International Courts of Justice in the Hague to the European Parliament in Brussels, to hand-deliver this petition to the European Parliament on 31 March 2009.
  • 6-Mar-2009 Reuters
    ASSOCHAM seeks early India-ASEAN pact to boost trade
    India needs to expedite a free trade pact with the South-east Asian nations to boost exports in the face of a global economic downturn and rising protectionism, an industry body said on Thursday.
  • 6-Mar-2009 Khabrein Info
    EP wants to see EU-India Free Trade Agreement signed by end of 2010
    Disappointed with the slow pace of negotiations, the European Parliament would like to see a Free Trade Agreement between the EU and India signed the end of 2010.
  • 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.