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  • 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.
  • 28-Mar-2008
    Dunne boycotts China trade trip over Tibet
    United Future leader Peter Dunne has turned down a trip to China for the free trade deal signing to protest the treatment of Tibetan people.
  • 27-Mar-2008
    Concern grows over global trade regulation
    Amid the noisy battering the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) is taking from both Democratic presidential hopefuls, one recent statement from Hillary Clinton was particularly resonant. "We will have a very clear view of how we’re going to review Nafta," the New York senator said. "We’re going to take out the ability of foreign companies to sue us because of what we do to protect our workers."
  • 27-Mar-2008
    Venezuela will help Mercosur become continental block
    Mercosur with Venezuela included has “the potential of becoming a trade block of the whole of South America” said Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Ceslo Amorim who also insisted that keeping out of the Washington inspired Free Trade Area of the Americas, FTAA, “has been positive”.
  • 27-Mar-2008
    Greens warn against China FTA
    The Greens are citing past experience as a warning against the upcoming free trade deal with China.
  • 27-Mar-2008
    Ramphal pleads for more equity in EPA
    Sir Shridath Ramphal yesterday made a strong plea to the European Union (EU) for "greater equity" in the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) being negotiated with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and, specifically, the one to be signed this coming June with the Caribbean Community and the Dominican Republic.
  • 27-Mar-2008 Straits Times
    M’sia says no rush to forge FTA with US
    Malaysia’s new trade minister said on Thursday there was no rush to sign a free-trade deal which the United States hopes could be struck before President George W. Bush leaves office this year.