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America will sign the TPP - John Key
11-Mar-2013 3News
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is confident America will sign one of the world’s largest free trade deals, because its economic hands are tied. “How on earth, if you’re Obama, do you actually stimulate the economy and get jobs? The only way through it for him is basically through exporting, and the fastest way to do that in volume is in Asia. That’s why we think Americans will actually do the deal,” he says.
Businesses want TPP to be concluded
11-Mar-2013 The Nation
Business representatives from around the Asia-Pacific region, gathered for the current 16th round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Singapore, urged negotiators to show flexibility and narrow the range of differences so that the talks can be brought to conclusion as soon as possible.
EU-India FTA - IP chapter (draft 2013)
11-Mar-2013 KEI
Indian negotiators under pressure to give in to European Commission demands
11-Mar-2013 DNP+
Civil society and PLHIV networks across the world need to support us in this unequal and conclusive battle against the unfair demands of the European Commission on IP enforcement and investment standards.
Ecuador plans legal challenge on foreign investment, oil
10-Mar-2013 AFP
Ecuador’s president on Saturday said he planned to challenge several bilateral investment treaties after the South American country was ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages by overseas courts.
Canadian meat producers don’t need CETA, aren’t filling existing export quotas: NFU
10-Mar-2013 rabble
Canadian beef exporters are using less than half of their tariff-free quota access to the European market and pork exporters come nowhere close to meeting their allowances, says the National Farmers Union this week. The data completely undermines the Harper government’s — and the meat sector — case for CETA, which appears to hinge on increased meat quotas for Canadian producers.
China plans study for free trade deal with Europe
8-Mar-2013 China Daily
China and the European Union could start investment talks in the coming months, the Chinese ambassador to the EU said. China has also submitted a proposal on launching a feasibility study on a free-trade agreement with the EU.
Europe’s carmakers look forward to US trade pact
8-Mar-2013 New York Times
Prospects for a trade pact have brightened the spirits of automakers along with many other types of Continental companies. And not only because it might make it easier for their products to compete in America’s giant consumer market.
Colombian trade coup a feather in Key’s sombrero
8-Mar-2013 NZ Herald
The smile on John Key’s face widened as broad as the sombrero that Juan Manuel Santos had just given him, when the Colombian President said, "We would love to have an FTA with New Zealand when they are ready to start negotiations."
Vietnam, EU look to conclude FTA negotiations
8-Mar-2013 VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung wants to speed up negotiations on the free trade agreement between Vietnam and the EU.
Colombia keen on free trade deal with NZ
7-Mar-2013 Radio New Zealand
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos says he would like to negotiate a free trade agreement with New Zealand.
Thai PM puts free trade agreement on the table with EU
7-Mar-2013 Financial Times
If concluded successfully, an FTA would kick in just as Thailand’s cushy preferential trade treatment under the EU’s generalised system of preferences expires in 2015.
India needs a better deal from trade pacts
7-Mar-2013 Business Standard
If India is not deriving much benefit from its bilateral and regional trade deals, why is so much negotiating capital, which is limited, being invested on these?
Merkel, Yudhoyono call for free trade agreement
6-Mar-2013 DW
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a free-trade agreement between the European Union and Indonesia. This, she said, could be a first step towards a wider trade agreement.
Ambitious EU-Philippines FTA could erode people’s rights and undermine development
6-Mar-2013
In the wake of recent pronouncements from the Philippine government of its proposal to begin bilateral free trade negotiations with the European Union this month, the EU-ASEAN FTA network expresses its serious concern that the proposed agreement would be too ambitious for the Philippines, erode people’s rights and undermine development.
EU-Thailand FTA negotiations: What fate for access to medicines?
6-Mar-2013
Health Action International Europe, Oxfam and Action against AIDS Germany have serious concerns over the repercussions the EU-Thailand FTA will have on access to medicines in Thailand and the region.
As clock ticks toward Trans-Pacific trade pact deadline, US must end stall tactics on access to medicines
5-Mar-2013 MSF
As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières calls on the US government to end its stall tactics and revise its proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries.
A Japan–EU free trade deal?
5-Mar-2013 The Diplomat
Amid talk of a super, transatlantic free trade zone, the eurozone now has a new potential partner: Japan. But, in light of Tokyo’s slow progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), can the Abe government match competitor South Korea in inking a trade pact with Brussels?
Local firms reel under free trade deals
4-Mar-2013 Jakarta Post
Indonesian firms cannot compete with lower prices offered by foreign rivals in their home market.
Thai civic groups warn against pact with EU
4-Mar-2013 Bangkok Post
About 1,500 members of the groups under the umbrella network of FTA Watch gathered outside Government House yesterday to voice their concerns.