10-Oct-2012
PakTribune
Japan on Tuesday termed Pakistan investment policy as best in the region and said Pak-Japan Bilateral Investment Treaty would help encourage Japanese investment in Pakistan.
10-Oct-2012
Reuters
Seeking to reduce its reliance on the sluggish U.S. market, Canada has formally joined 10 other nations in talks on creating an Asia Pacific free trade agreement, the government said on Tuesday.
10-Oct-2012
This Day
The European Union has rebuffed claims that the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement with the West African region and Nigeria within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is out to undermine the region’s nascent manufacturing sector.
9-Oct-2012
The Herald
Zimbabwe and Russia are today expected to sign a proposed Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement in a move expected to enhance investment and trade relations between the countries
9-Oct-2012
Livemint
Signed with much fanfare, an Indo-Bangladesh deal on further trade between two countries is yet to take off
9-Oct-2012
CNN
Mitt Romney stated Monday that US President Barack Obama "has not signed one new free-trade agreement in the past four years." "I’ll reverse that failure," the Republican presidential nominee said. But is his assertion true?
9-Oct-2012
SMH
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has used rising concern in Japan about food security to renew the push to finalise a Free Trade Agreement.
9-Oct-2012
Dow Jones
Ecuador’s Attorney General said Monday his office is preparing the legal basis to contest an international court ruling that ordered the country to pay $1.77 billion plus interest to Occidental Petroleum Corp.
8-Oct-2012
Trade and Industry Minister, Ms Hannah Tetteh has called all stakeholders in the West African sub-region to show extra commitment to the integration agenda and the implementation of various ECOWAS protocols.
8-Oct-2012
The negotiations on a free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union will be intensified after the election to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said at a hot line in "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine" newspaper, the Cabinet’s press service informs.
8-Oct-2012
Julia Gillard announced last night that it was "time to seal the deal" with Japan on what would be Australia’s biggest bilateral free trade agreement.
8-Oct-2012
Veteran business and academic figures are warning free trade agreement negotiations between Australia and Japan are now a matter of urgency as challenges from the Asian Century emerge.
8-Oct-2012
AIE Network
Our recent ADBI Working Paper assessed the scope and depth of the 20 Asia-Latin America FTAs using an inter-disciplinary approach blending concepts in international law with international economics.
8-Oct-2012
TWN
The damaging effects of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and the investment chapters of North-South Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were highlighted at a World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum held last week.
7-Oct-2012
Mr Tetteh Hormeku, Head of Programmes, Third World Network - Ghana, has urged African governments to be wary of the European Union’s agenda to perpetuate and deepen liberalization through the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).
7-Oct-2012
There’s no denying that foreign trade has been the biggest drag on Canada’s economic performance in recent years. Our exports (in real terms) are smaller than way back in 2000, and our balance of payments is mired in record deficit. So it was especially ironic last week to watch business and Conservative leaders pull out the stops to toast the silver anniversary of the Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement.
7-Oct-2012
The fourth round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between India and Australia is expected to be held in November this year, in New Delhi, a top official has said.
7-Oct-2012
Ecuador officially announced on 8 October 2012 that it will request the annulment of the recent decision of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) which was communicated on 5 October 2012 (ICSID Decision ARB/06/11).
6-Oct-2012
Are you fed up with the sorry state of Quebec’s taxpayer-funded roads and highways? Disgusted by widespread allegations of corruption and collusion in the province’s construction industry? Shocked at the kickbacks that organized crime is said to demand to get things built in this province?
6-Oct-2012
Twenty-five years ago this week, the signing of the Canada – U.S. free-trade agreement (FTA) sparked one of the most passionate political debates in Canadian history.
