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RI, South Korea aim to seal CEPA at year’s end
30-Mar-2013
Indonesia and South Korea have agreed to continue talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA), aiming to conclude at the end of this year a deal that will help boost bilateral trade to US$100 billion by 2020.
Programs to train foreign nurses still falling short
30-Mar-2013
With its rapidly aging population, Japan will need to increasingly rely on help provided by foreign health care workers.
EU FTA: Cars may not see sharp cut in customs duty
30-Mar-2013
In a move that could spell relief for the domestic auto industry, India may not offer the European Union (EU) a sharp customs duty cut to 10-30 per cent for imported premium cars as previously envisaged under the upcoming free trade agreement (FTA).
Vietnam, Customs Union kick off FTA talks
29-Mar-2013
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board Viktor Borisovich Khristenko, on March 28, officially launched negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - EU negotiating mandate (draft Mar 2013)
29-Mar-2013 S2B Network
On 13 March 2013, the EU Commission adopted a recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations on a comprehensive trade and investment agreement, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, between the EU and the US
Long line for big free-trade club
29-Mar-2013 China Daily
What is behind the current eagerness to sign free-trade agreements considering that the European Union and the United States also have their own behemoth in sight and what does China have to gain or lose from them?
India-EU FTA may be in jeopardy if April 15 meeting fails
29-Mar-2013 CNBC
The future of the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and EU will now depend on a meeting between commerce minister Anand Sharma and EU trade commissioner Karl De Gucht at Brussels on April 15.
Closing free talks with deal to be harder than opening negotiations for SKorea, China, Japan
29-Mar-2013 AP
Progress toward a free trade zone that would be the world’s third largest could easily be interrupted by any flare-up in political tensions.
Final Push for a Canada-EU CETA and the Coming NAFTA-EU Free Trade Zone
29-Mar-2013 Be Your Own Leader
Just like any of the other so-called next-generation trade and investment deals, CETA is based on the failed NAFTA model with the same false promises. These secretive and binding international agreements are not really about trade, but are in fact designed to reshape regulatory and policy frameworks to further increase the rights of corporations and investors.
EU-India FTA - IP chapter text (draft, date unknown)
29-Mar-2013 KEI
Negotiating text on intellectual property for the EU-India FTA. It does not include Article 6 (patents) or have any text for Article 9 (GIs). Date unknown.
Moldova can sign free trade agreement with EU in no less than year
28-Mar-2013
An agreement on Moldova’s admission to a free trade zone with the European Union (DCFTA) will be signed no sooner than a year’s time, Moldova’s Economy Minister Valeriu Lazar said at a Wednesday press conference.
New hospital in Shenzhen fails to impress Cepa critics
27-Mar-2013
Critics of Hong Kong’s free-trade deal with the mainland maintained their reservations about the scheme as the first wholly Hong Kong-owned hospital in Shenzhen opened yesterday.
India-SACU PTA talks likely to conclude this year
27-Mar-2013
India and South African nations are expected to conclude a preferential trade agreement by the end of this year, aimed at reducing tariffs on certain items traded between the two sides.
Indian pharma sector fears India-European Union FTA could imperil local industry
27-Mar-2013
Drugmakers and healthcare activists are worried that the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is in the works, may contain a provision that could imperil local industry and have urged the government to keep patent infringement issues out of FTAs.
TPP declaration fuels other talks / European nations grow more eager to reach trade deals with Japan
27-Mar-2013 Daily Yomiuri
Shinzo Abe’s recent announcement that Japan aims to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations has sparked life into other trade talks Japan has aimed to start, with those for an economic partnership agreement with the European Union the latest example.
Government moves to protect rooibos in EU — eight years on
27-Mar-2013 Business Day
A French company’s attempt to claim "rooibos" as its own intellectual property has galvanised the South African government into action to protect the term under its talks with Brussels over the EU-South Africa EPA.
See you in court: Russians may sue over Cyprus losses
27-Mar-2013 Reuters
Russian businesses and banks that face losses from the European Union’s bailout of Cyprus are considering legal action but may have a hard time making a case, say lawyers who are combing through treaties find strategies to recover funds.
Experts call for BRICS free trade pact
27-Mar-2013 China Daily
"BRICS should consider proposing a free trade agreement at the summit, regardless of whether it’s feasible right now," said Wang Junwen, chairman of the China Association of International Trade.
Amul requests for a relook at EU-India FTA
27-Mar-2013 Times of India
India’s largest dairy co-operative - Amul - has requested the commerce ministry to relook at the EU-India Free Trade Agreement.
Turkey demands place at table as part of FTA talks
27-Mar-2013 World Bulletin
Turkish economy minister said that Turkey needed a place at the table as part of free trade agreement talks between the European Union and the US.