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Draft EU-ESA EPA (August 2006)
23-Sep-2006
UNICE speech - EU-China Business Summit
22-Sep-2006
Outline intervention by Michael Treschow, Vice-President, UNICE (Confederation of European Business)
UNICE - Trade and investment liberalization: An EU business perspective
22-Sep-2006
Presentation at EU-Asia Business Forum, Helsinki, 10-11 September 2006
S. Korea, Canada to hold 7th round of free trade talks
22-Sep-2006
South Korea said Friday it will open a seventh round of formal talks next week on a proposed free trade agreement with Canada.
Thai coup puts FTA, investment in doubt
22-Sep-2006
Tuesday’s bloodless coup in Thailand has left a free-trade agreement negotiated between Tokyo and Bangkok up in the air, a senior Japanese official said Thursday as businesses waited for the dust to settle.
Chile, Japan free trade agreement
22-Sep-2006
Chile and Japan have negotiated a free trade agreement that among other facilities will sever bilateral exchange tariffs by 92 percent.
Japan looks to limit FTA proposal
22-Sep-2006
A proposed free-trade deal between Australia and Japan is looking shaky, with agriculture again the most contentious issue.
France eyes bilateral trade deals after WTO failure
22-Sep-2006 Reuters
France intends to target the Gulf, India, Asia and the Mediterranean basin in a push towards bilateral trade deals following the collapse of global free trade talks, Trade Minister Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.
Chile re-enters Andean Community
22-Sep-2006 MercoPress
A council of Andean foreign ministers yesterday approved Chile’s re-entry to the Andean Community of Nations trade group after a three-decade absence.
Does investment always foster development? The effects of BITs on developing countries
22-Sep-2006 Ohmynews
BITs are generally crafted as political documents and quite often contain no mention of development. Western countries prefer to prioritize investment. If a development objective is involved, it is often generalized to the exclusion of any role for government.
Uruguay marches on free trade scam
22-Sep-2006 Prensa Latina
Hundreds of Uruguayan workers marched July 18 in front of the Economy Ministry in this capital to reject signing of a US free trade treaty.
Japanese Cabinet OKs Chile trade pact
22-Sep-2006 AP
Japan’s Cabinet approved a bilateral free trade pact with Chile on Friday, an official said.
Colombia sees free-trade deal with Chile signed on Nov 27
21-Sep-2006
Colombia and Chile will sign a free-trade agreement on Nov. 27 instead of in January as originally announced because negotiations are going faster than expected, President Alvaro Uribe said in New York on Thursday.
Mercosur, EU to resume trade talks in October
21-Sep-2006
South America’s Mercosur bloc will resume negotiations with the European Union on a free trade deal in late October, following the suspension of talks last year, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Uruguayan workers strike for pay hikes, against U.S. trade deal
21-Sep-2006
Uruguay Labor groups demanding higher wages and an end to Uruguayan efforts for a trade deal with Washington walked off the job for four hours on Thursday, though public transport ran normally and shops and offices stayed open.
S. Korean trade deal will cost jobs: CAW
21-Sep-2006
A free-trade deal Ottawa is negotiating with South Korea could cost Canada up to 33,000 jobs — including 4,000 in the auto industry — this country’s largest private sector union warned yesterday.
Japan, Persian Gulf nations hold first meeting to discuss free trade deal
21-Sep-2006
Japan and six Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia on Thursday began the first round of talks on a free trade agreement, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
Smelters return home from Lanka
21-Sep-2006
A majority of Indian secondary copper smelters based in Sri Lanka are winding up their operations in that country because of economic problem as well as threat perception over local environmental issues.
Political parties flip-flop over US-SK FTA
21-Sep-2006
Regarding the proposed South Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), the true "stance" of the nation’s two main political parties seems to be, "if it succeeds, we are for it. If it fails, we are against it".
International court rules in favor of Hungary in Telenor case
21-Sep-2006
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ruled in favor of the State of Hungary in a case brought against it by Norwegian telco Telenor, business daily Világgazdaság reported on Monday.