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28-Nov-2007
The Hindu
Fishermen want 40 varieties in the negative list
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28-Nov-2007
Hindu Business Line
In the absence of a clear strategy to put our own house in order, the India-ASEAN FTA negotiations appear to be farcical. Negotiations are conducted between equals and in a level playing field. But here is a situation where everyone knows India is vulnerable.
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28-Nov-2007
Jerusalem Post
Mercosur, South America’s four-nation trading bloc, is poised to clinch a historic free-trade pact with Israel, officials said Wednesday.
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28-Nov-2007
Embassy
Not even the fact that the United Nations has called Colombia the worst humanitarian disaster in the Western hemisphere because of targeted killings of civilians by that country’s security forces that have risen sharply in the last five years, seems to matter as the Canada-Colombia FTA negotiations move forward at break-neck speed.
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28-Nov-2007
Southern African Development Community (SADC) and European Union (EU) negotiators have concluded the first phase of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
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28-Nov-2007
The law, one of the least controversial of the 12, regulates the relationship between foreign companies and their representatives in Costa Rica.
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28-Nov-2007
OneWorld US
Labor rights activists in the United States are trying to organize a nationwide campaign to push Congress to oppose the Bush administration’s plans to promote new free trade agreements.
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28-Nov-2007
Fiji Times
Fiji and Papua New Guinea are silent on reports they were pressured into signing an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
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28-Nov-2007
Reuters
A free trade pact between the United States and Japan would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in economic gains for both countries, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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28-Nov-2007
Daily Times
Pakistan and Mauritius have decided to accord each other preferential status effective November 30, 2007, under the bilateral Preferential Trade Agreement.
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28-Nov-2007
Taipei Times
Taiwan expressed concerns on Monday over the possible impact on the country resulting from its exclusion from Thailand’s free trade agreement (FTA) network.
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28-Nov-2007
Nation
The process of Asean-EU free trade talks may be complicated by the newly-enacted the Constitution which requires the government to seek the parliamental approval, said Pramon Sutivong, chairman of the Board of Trade of Thailand.
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27-Nov-2007
About 40 varieties of fish, cashew kernels and salted and roasted cashew are among the products which should be included in the negative list of items for India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a meeting of stakeholders here has suggested.
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27-Nov-2007
Canada.com
Quebec Premier Jean Charest and his Ontario counterpart, Premier Dalton McGuinty, announced a plan yesterday to negotiate an interprovincial free-trade agreement.
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27-Nov-2007
AHN
An alliance of Philippines fishermen is trying to protect itself and Philippine waters from being over fished by huge Japanese factory fishing ships.
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27-Nov-2007
AFP
The new Vietnam-EU Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which would replace a 1995 pact, will "facilitate deeper economic and commercial integration between the European Union and Vietnam preceding a future Free Trade Agreement between the EU and countries of ASEAN."
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27-Nov-2007
South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon warned Tuesday that the United States could lose out on the "golden opportunity" to secure a firm bridgehead in the Korean market ahead of the European Union, Canada and China if the American parliament fails to ratify a bilateral free trade agreement.
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26-Nov-2007
Reuters
The Commonwealth condemned the European Union on Sunday for scrapping a preferential trade deal with sugar-producing African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries
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26-Nov-2007
e European Union and Vietnam launched talks on a wide-ranging cooperation pact Monday during a visit by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to the fast-growing Southeast Asian economy.
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26-Nov-2007
Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, can expect relatively modest gains from a free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an independent study shows.
