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  • 7-Dec-2009 ITN
    German investor launches ICSID case against Costa Rica over alleged expropriation of land near endangered turtle habitat
    German investor Reinhard Unglaube, a resident of Costa Rica, has commenced arbitration against his host country over the latter’s refusal to grant the appropriate permits to extend his eco-tourist hotel complex in Playa Grande, Costa Rica.
  • 7-Dec-2009 Bloomberg
    EU delays free-trade, accession pacts with Ukraine
    The European Union will delay signing free-trade and accession accords with Ukraine because of growing skepticism about the former Soviet state’s commitment to economic and political restructuring.
  • 7-Dec-2009 Yonhap
    S. Korea, Colombia open 1st round of free trade talks
    Trade officials from South Korea and Colombia kicked off their first round of negotiations here Monday aimed at forging a free trade agreement (FTA) to boost the flow of goods and investment.
  • 7-Dec-2009 Pakistan Times
    Belgium urged to support efforts for Pak-EU FTA
    Belgium, being the Capital of Europe and centre of European politics and policy making, should support the efforts for signing free trade agreement between Pakistan and European Union, says the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • 7-Dec-2009 CCTV
    China-Peru FTA comes into effect
    Peruvian President, Alan Garcia, has declared the free trade agreement between Peru and China in effect from Sunday.
  • 4-Dec-2009 IPS
    Caribbean: Closer ties with Latin America jolted by EU banana deal
    As the European Union gets ready to sign an agreement with Latin America to end a 16-year trade war over bananas, Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are expressing their frustration at the perceived double standards of the Latin Americans leaders.
  • 4-Dec-2009 IPS
    Trilateral treaty of the South
    Negotiations to form a trade alliance between countries of Africa, Asia and South America stepped up to a political level when ministers discussed the issue this week, giving the initiative a further boost.
  • 4-Dec-2009 COHA
    The ill-advised US certification of Colombia on human rights
    Is certification a signal that Colombia will obtain FTA approval?
  • 2-Dec-2009 Daily Times
    Pakistan, Germany sign new bilateral investment treaty
    Under the bilateral treaty, the German government would provide insurance guarantees to investments by its companies in Pakistan and cover their political and security risks.
  • 2-Dec-2009 AFP
    Jordan, Turkey sign free trade deal
    Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Jordan’s King Abdullah II signed a long-awaited free trade deal on Tuesday before holding talks on further boosting economic ties, the palace said.
  • 2-Dec-2009 The News
    Pakistan wants talks on FTA: Gilani
    Addressing the Fifty Years of Bilateral Investment Treaties Conference in Germany, Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani said: “We are looking forward to early commencement of negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement.”
  • 1-Dec-2009 APP
    Pakistan to co-host world’s first international conference on Investment Treaties
    Pakistan will co-host with Germany world’s first-ever International Conference on Investment Treaties in Frankfurt from December 1-3, aimed at examining the policy issues that will shape international investment laws in the years to come.
  • 1-Dec-2009 Reuters
    US senators urge renegotiation of US trade deals
    A group of US senators urged President Barack Obama on Monday to back legislation requiring the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and a long list of other trade pacts they blame for millions of lost US manufacturing jobs.
  • 1-Dec-2009
    Matrix of FTAs in the world
    Contributed by Amalinov
  • 1-Dec-2009 NAUresistance
    Building Blocks Towards an Asia-Pacific Union
    President Obama has recommitted to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Expanding the TPP would further distinguish it as the only regional free trade agreement that spans both sides of the Pacific, linking Asia with the Americas. It could gradually evolve into a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.
  • 30-Nov-2009 Malaysia News.Net
    India-New Zealand trade talks likely early next year
    ’While Indian agriculture is highly protected, improved access for our agricultural and primary produce, especially in an added-value form, needs to be one of the key focuses of the negotiations,’ India-New Zealand Trade Business Council chairman Wenceslaus Anthony said.
  • 30-Nov-2009 NRCU
    Ukraine and Canada to launch talks on free trade zone agreement in 2010
    The first round of talks will be held in February 2010.
  • 30-Nov-2009 swissinfo
    Sino-Swiss free trade accord weighed up
    Switzerland and China have launched a feasibility study aimed at drawing up a free trade agreement between the two countries.
  • 30-Nov-2009 Manila Bulletin
    Auto workers slam DTI on JPEPA auto tariff talks delay
    A group of 75,000 automotive industry workers has slammed the Philippines Department of Trade and Industry for lack of earnest efforts to negotiate a delay in the tariff elimination of imported vehicles under the signed Japan Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
  • 30-Nov-2009 Meat Trade News
    Colombia-US trade deal stuck in the mud
    The third anniversary of the signing of the US-Colombia free trade pact came and went this month with the Obama administration still negotiating the fine print, Congress showing little interest and business groups frustrated by the lack of action on trade deals.