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  • 24-May-2008
    Pacts with developed nations to take Indian trade into new era
    India is currently negotiating preferential trade and investment agreements with some developed countries - the European Union, Japan and Korea.
  • 24-May-2008
    SMEs deserve special attention in Asean, says Muhyiddin
    Malaysian’s International Trade & Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Saturday night that small & medium enterprises (SMEs) deserve special attention in Asean as they are the backbone of the economies of all the member states.
  • 24-May-2008
    India, New Zealand to conclude FTA study process
    India and New Zealand are keen on completing a study by end of the year to find out feasibility of a free trade agreement for boosting bilateral trade.
  • 23-May-2008 Reuters
    Turkey eyes Mercosur trade talks this year - Kayalar
    Turkey aims to start negotiations this year over a free-trade agreement with Mercosur, the South American trade bloc, Turkish Foreign Trade Undersecretary Tuncer Kayalar says
  • 23-May-2008 Gulf News
    Syria-EU relations need review
    Syria remains the only partner out of the nine other Mediterranean countries under the Barcelona process who hasn’t signed an association agreement with the EU.
  • 23-May-2008 Chosun Ilbo
    Farmers in massive protests against FTA with US
    Downtown Seoul saw massive demonstrations by farmers against the Korea-US free trade agreement and import of US beef on Thursday with some 8,000 farmers from 42 groups nationwide including the Hanwoo Association
  • 23-May-2008 Global Atlanta
    Panama projects plow ahead as FTA idles in Congress
    “With the United States, our goal is to have a string of free-trading countries from Alaska down to the tip of Argentina and Chile, and Panama is obviously an important link in that chain,” US ambassador to Panama said.
  • 23-May-2008 Thaindian News
    US official calls for concluding investment treaty with India
    Daniel Sullivan, assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs, said that concluding a bilateral investment treaty with India is an important priority of the present US administration.
  • 22-May-2008 Embassy Magazine
    EU wants provinces on board before talks start
    After years of exploring the feasibility of a free trade agreement with the European Union, Canadian politicians and officials are now turning their attention to the next Canada-EU summit, in Montreal in October, as the venue for finally launching official talks.
  • 22-May-2008
    Muhyiddin suggests a pre-negotiation discussion to move forward FTA deal with US
    Malaysia and US should have a pre-negotiation discussion on some of the contentious issues that have delayed the progress of the Free Trade Agreement with the US, International Trade and Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Wednesday.
  • 22-May-2008
    BITs and peace: The connection
    How beneficial are Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) for Contracting states remains a hotly debated issue, threatening to eclipse the success due to misgivings generated largely by the Latin American experience.
  • 21-May-2008
    India wants trade deal by end of next year
    Australia and India should aim to complete a free trade agreement by the end of next year, says India’s influential Commerce and Industry Minister, Kamal Nath.
  • 21-May-2008
    EU urges India to offer more in bilateral trade talks
    The European Commission called on India on Tuesday to go further with its plans to open up its economy to European exports under a planned bilateral trade deal between the two trade powers.
  • 21-May-2008
    Comesa ministers root for common policy
    Comesa trade ministers are rooting for a crash programme to harmonise intra-regional policies before the December 2008 deadline of signing a joint Customs Union (CU).
  • 21-May-2008
    The EPA conundrum
    There are strident calls for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), due to be signed by Cariforum in July, to be amended, varied or simply not signed. Any possible renegotiation of the treaty, it is acknowledged, might come at a potentially intolerable cost.
  • 21-May-2008
    Whither regional integration?
    As a result of the free trade agreements with the European Union, called economic partnership agreements, regional integration in Southern Africa is in tatters. The question arises: what kind of integration would engender broad-based development?
  • 21-May-2008 Radio Mundo Real
    People’s Summit: Linking Alternatives III declaration
    We reject the project of Association Agreements proposed by the European Union and backed by diverse Latin American and Caribbean governments which only aim to deepen and perpetuate the current system of domination which has caused so much harm to our peoples.
  • 21-May-2008 Venezuela Analysis
    Venezuela proposes food crisis fund at controversial trans-Atlantic summit
    Of primary emphasis at the summit were the EU’s trade deals, termed “association accords,” with South America’s Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and the southern free trade block MERCOSUR.
  • 21-May-2008 Afrika News Update
    Nigeria: Country to lose $478.4 million revenue to EPA
    The country will lose an average of $478.4 million revenue in 2008 if it implements the degree of import liberalization as demanded by the Europeans through the Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA, a top official of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Chibuzo Nwoke has warned.
  • 21-May-2008
    Europe aims to build links with Mediterranean neighbors
    A new body should reinvigorate the proposal for a Euro-Mediterranean free trade zone by 2010, a new European Commission document says.