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23-Apr-2011
Ska Keller, a Green member of the European Parliament, has warned that the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and European Union will have serious consequences for the Indian people.
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23-Apr-2011
The position taken by Namibia with regard to the signing of the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is commendable and should be a guiding principle for further negotiating trade agreements between Africa and the rest of the world.
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23-Apr-2011
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stressed Thursday in Tokyo the importance of concluding a free trade agreement between the country and Japan, while vowing to remain a reliable supplier of natural resources to the quake-hit nation.
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23-Apr-2011
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation to Seoul next week to build support for the ratification of the pending free trade deal with South Korea, the Commerce Department said Friday.
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23-Apr-2011
The BJP has demanded an immediate halt to all plans to finalise a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) and asked that an all-party meeting be called to analyse the impact assessment reports of such an agreement.
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23-Apr-2011
Japan and Luxembourg agreed Tuesday to push forward the launch of negotiations on sealing a free-trade agreement between Tokyo and the 27-nation European Union, with an eye on reaching an accord during the next Japan-EU summit talks slated for late May in Brussels, officials said.
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21-Apr-2011
CEO
One of the European Union’s official advisory bodies has spoken out about the flawed negotiating process in the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA).
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21-Apr-2011
Foreign Trade Minister Zafer Çağlayan has said a free trade agreement (FTA) between Turkey and India should be signed as quickly as possible to make the best out of what he described as the tremendous trade potential between the two emerging economies.
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21-Apr-2011
Negotiations between India and the European Union (EU) for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) have entered a crucial phase and contours of the deal have started to emerge but there are still some issues which need to be resolved, EU official say.
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20-Apr-2011
Boell India
The Heinrich Böll Foundation along with partners Anthra, MISEREOR and the Third World Network (TWN) organized under the auspices of the Ecofair Trade Dialogue a two day Expert Consultation in New Delhi on the 11. & 12.04.2011 to gauge the perception and threat potential of the FTA on the Right to Food of various marginalized stakeholder groups in India.
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19-Apr-2011
GuinGuinBali
Depuis un mois, la Commission européenne (CE) se pose une question claire et concise : Doit-on inclure le Sahara Occidental dans les accords commerciaux avec le Maroc ?
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18-Apr-2011
Southern Times
Negotiations for a new economic partnership agreement (EPA) between SADC members and the European Union appear to have been shelved with no fixed date for resumption of the protracted trade negotiations.
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18-Apr-2011
IMEU
The rights of the Palestinian minority in Israel are not even mentioned in the "association agreement" between the EU and Israel
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16-Apr-2011
CEPAL
The TPP negotiations offer both Chile and Peru little in terms of improved market access, as well as risks such as having to make new concessions in sensitive areas like intellectual property and investment.
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16-Apr-2011
Antigua Observer
Antigua’s Attorney General Justin Simon has called for regional integration to be a key component of laws being designed to implement the European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EU EPA).
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16-Apr-2011
Buenos Aires Herald
The European Union’s top trade negotiator, Karel de Gucht, accused Argentina of being “the great obstacle” in an association agreement between the EU and the Mercosur, and threatened to take the case before the WTO.
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16-Apr-2011
CAP 2020
With EU-Mercosur FTA talks expected to conclude by July 2011, there are significant concerns being raised about the impact, not only on the EU’s agricultural sector, but also what this might mean environmentally.
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16-Apr-2011
IB Times
Japanese automakers and electronics giants have been ramping up efforts to make the government kick-start free trade talks with the EU, concerned about losing further market share to its South Korean competitors.
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13-Apr-2011
Uprising
Congress is poised to ratify a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia in spite of vehement opposition both here in the US and in Colombia.
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13-Apr-2011
Madison.com
"If the argument in favor of KORUS is increased corporate profit, fine, call it that, but it is a perverse misrepresentation to imply that US farmers and workers will profit," says Wisconsin dairy farmer Jim Goodman
