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  • 1-Apr-2008 IGJ
    ASEAN-EU FTA will bring disaster and sovereignty losing
    Statement from the Institute for Global Justice in Indonesia
  • 1-Apr-2008
    China free to take as tough a line as it likes
    In apartheid days, support for rugby tours used to be called "building bridges". Opponents, among them today’s Prime Minister, thought sports boycotts more likely to effect change. The argument spilled into the streets in 1981.
  • 1-Apr-2008
    Beware FTA, says Kiwi in China
    Shifting production of her brand to China has put more money in Cushla Reed’s pocket, allowed her to make lifestyle choices such as having a baby, and given her business a future.
  • 1-Apr-2008
    Abbasi promises continuity of policies with review
    Shahid Khakan Abbasi, Federal Minister of Commerce hinted review of the Trade Policy and said that his ministry would ensure continuity of policies with review for enhancement of country’s exports.
  • 31-Mar-2008
    Free trade deal also strategic, says PM
    New Zealand’s free trade agreement with China is about more than reducing tariffs - it is also a strategic move which acknowledges that the emerging superpower will become the world’s biggest economy, says Prime Minister Helen Clark.
  • 31-Mar-2008
    Public divided over FTA, poll shows
    The public is divided over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China that Prime Minister Helen Clark is due to sign in Beijing on April 7, a poll published today shows.
  • 31-Mar-2008
    MPs to vote for deal on China
    A free trade agreement with China looks set to win the overwhelming backing of Parliament.
  • 31-Mar-2008 Pinoy Press
    Jpepa ratification to worsen food crisis
    The current rice crisis facing the country should convince the Senate not to ratify the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement because the deal threatens to aggravate the country’s food insecurity, the NO DEAL! coalition said today.
  • 31-Mar-2008 GMANews
    Gov’t eyes April okay for JPEPA
    Philippine Trade Secretary Peter B. Favila wants the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement ratified by the Senate before the end of April.
  • 31-Mar-2008 Jamaica Observer
    ’We will all live to regret it’
    Professor Girvan warns that the EU-Caribbean EPA could widen inequalities among Caricom states
  • 31-Mar-2008 Scoop
    NZ: Anti-Free Trade March April 5
    The Prime Minister has left New Zealand on a trip which will include the signing of a free trade agreement with China in the second week of April. Global Peace and Justice Auckland and Unite Union are organising a protest march to take place shortly before the FTA is signed.
  • 29-Mar-2008
    SA envoy clears mist on economic agreements
    Short-term benefits brought by Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) should not stand in the way of long term prosperity and integration of the SADC region, says South Africas High Commissioner to Botswana, Mr Dikgang Moopeloa.
  • 29-Mar-2008
    Japan, ASEAN sign free trade accord
    Japan signed a free trade agreement Friday with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to promote trade and investment between the two sides.
  • 29-Mar-2008
    ’SADC Secretariat inertia worrisome’
    Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson, Levy Mwanawasa, has said member states and some international cooperating partners are dissatisfied with the SADC secretariat’s lack of capacity to absorb financial aid meant to help the regional body achieve its goals.
  • 29-Mar-2008
    Trade ministers band together
    The Pacific ACP Trade Ministers from the region have agreed to proceed as a group with negotiations of a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with the European Commission by the end of the year.
  • 29-Mar-2008
    Civil Society Vows to Stop EPA
    As the recently initialled interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) continues to take centre stage, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Africa have vowed to step up their stop-EPA campaign saying the pact has contentious issues.
  • 29-Mar-2008
    Shift trade to SAARC region from slowing US, Govt to business
    The government today asked the country’s business houses to shift focus to the SAARC region and exploit the opportunities there, especially when the US and the European economies are slowing down.
  • 29-Mar-2008
    Singapore says FTA with Taiwan possible, without politics
    Singapore Saturday expressed optimism about enhanced economic cooperation with Taiwan as long as issues involving trade are not politicised.
  • 28-Mar-2008
    Canadian ambassador speaks of FTA benefits
    Joseph Caron, the Canadian ambassador to Japan, spoke about the great economic benefits which could be derived from a Free Trade Agreement between Japan and Canada during a seminar in Osaka on Friday.
  • 28-Mar-2008
    Panamanian cabinet approves FTA with Guatemala
    Panama’s cabinet has approved the free trade agreement (FTA) between Panama and Guatemala signed on Feb. 26, Commerce and Industry Minister Alejandro Ferrer said Thursday.