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Provinces hold key to next stage of EU-Canada trade talks
16-Dec-2010
Free-trade talks between Canada and the European Union will enter a crucial phase early next year, when the provinces will be asked to clarify where they stand on opening their procurement contracts to foreign bidders — a potential dealbreaker for the Europeans.
Çağlayan blames former Turkish ministers for trade ’mistake’
16-Dec-2010
Turkey is offering economic partnership agreements to potential trade partners instead of traditional free trade agreements in an attempt to bypass regulations in its customs union deal with the European Union, a Turkish minister has said.
Taipei flops in trade-pact race
16-Dec-2010
Barely six months ago, Taiwan’s industrialists were jubilant. The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which the island signed with mainland China, was celebrated as a blow against trade arch-rival South Korea.
Europeans put spotlight on Ottawa’s investment restrictions
16-Dec-2010
Talks for a Canada-Europe trade deal haven’t attracted the kind of clamour that surrounded free trade with the United States in 1988, but the Europeans do have a wish list that includes some of Canada’s sacred cows: They want exemptions from our foreign-investment restrictions.
Anti TPP demonstration: Death of democracy?
16-Dec-2010 Stuff
The TPP Action Group held a visual protest today outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Lambton Quay in Wellington, New Zealand
Activists oppose booze deal
16-Dec-2010 Bangkok Post
The Thai government has agreed to include alcoholic drinks in the framework of a free trade agreement being negotiated with the European Union.
Put a hold on FTAs unfavourable to us
15-Dec-2010
The Malaysian government last week negotiated free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States of America (via the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPP) and the European Union (EU).
India-Asean services deal hits roadblock
15-Dec-2010
The negotiations to conclude a services and investment deal under the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the Asean countries have hit a stonewall.
Establishing free trade zone
15-Dec-2010
Syria will sign the Framework Agreement on establishing Free Trade Zone with the Mercosur Bloc during the Mercosur summit to be held later this week in the Brazilian city of Foz de Iguazu with the participation of a Syrian delegation headed by Minister of Economy and Trade Lamia Assi.
GNP, Blue House differ on strategies for FTA vote
15-Dec-2010
The Lee Myung-bak administration and the ruling Grand National Party are at loggerheads over how to get ratification of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement through the National Assembly.
Bilateral deals don’t work: report
14-Dec-2010 ABC
"Oversold" and failing to deliver any real benefits to business. That’s the Productivity Commission’s damning conclusion about Australia’s six bilateral and regional trade agreements.
Brussels closer to drinks trade deal with India
14-Dec-2010 FT
The EU-India FTA could represent a milestone for Europe’s spirits industry, which has long thirsted for a share of the world’s biggest whisky market.
Seminar on Taiwan-Indonesia collaboration opens in Jakarta
14-Dec-2010
A second seminar on Taiwan-Indonesia collaboration opened in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta Tuesday to further explore bilateral ties on a wide front ranging from free trade agreements (FTAs) to challenges facing the media and technology sectors.
Free trade benefits oversold: commission
13-Dec-2010
The positives of free trade agreements have been oversold and the way the deals are done needs to be improved, the Productivity Commission has found.
Free trade is costing millions: report
13-Dec-2010
A year-long investigation of Australia’s free trade agreements has found they are often nothing of the kind.
Productivity Commission urges caution on free trade agreements
13-Dec-2010
The Productivity Commission has released a report backing Trade Minister Craig Emerson’s critique of many free trade agreements.
South Korean President Seeks To Quell Worries Over FTA With U.S.
13-Dec-2010
President Lee Myung-bak assured South Koreans Monday of long-term benefits from a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, saying it will not only expand South Korea’s economic domain but also bolster the Seoul-Washington military alliance, Yonhap news agency reported.
About-turn from SA on sugar access to Europe
13-Dec-2010
The government has thrown its weight behind the South African sugar industry’s demand for preferential access to European markets. If granted, this would put SA on an equal sugar-trade footing with other sugar producing developing economies — the African-Pacific-Caribbean countries and the world’s least developed countries — for the first time since the industry lost its access under apartheid.
Canada nears securing trade agreement with Europe
12-Dec-2010 Canadian Press
It appears the Europeans are increasingly warming up to a Canadian demand that closely resembles the Chapter 11 clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Towards a North American Security Perimeter
12-Dec-2010 Global Research
There are numerous reports that Canada and the U.S. are secretly negotiating a security and trade deal which could be signed as early as January 2011. The proposed agreement would establish a security perimeter as a means to better secure North America and stimulate trade.