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  • 23-Dec-2009 AP
    China negotiator: Taiwan trade pact "long process"
    The comments from Chen Yunlin appeared to be aimed at assuaging opposition concerns that the pact could undermine Taiwanese sovereignty and lead to significant job losses on the island of 23 million people.
  • 23-Dec-2009 Bloomberg
    Mexico seeks Brazil free-trade accord by 2012, official says
    Mexico’s government aims to sign a free-trade agreement with Brazil by the end of President Felipe Calderon’s administration in 2012, said Rogelio Granguillhome, head of economic relations at Mexico’s Foreign Ministry.
  • 23-Dec-2009 EU
    EU to launch FTA negotiations with individual ASEAN countries, beginning with Singapore
    "While we don’t lose sight of our ultimate goal of achieving an agreement within a regional framework, I welcome today’s decision which will allow us to move forward and re-engage with this important region through negotiations with individual ASEAN member states," EU Trade Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said.
  • 23-Dec-2009 AFP
    Singapore, EU agree to start FTA talks
    Singapore and the European Union have agreed to begin talks for a free trade agreement, "paving the way for an EU-ASEAN FTA."
  • 22-Dec-2009 Wikileaks
    EU-Canada FTA (CETA) - draft IP chapter (2009)
  • 22-Dec-2009 Toronto Star
    Geist: EU demands in free trade talks would retool our copyright laws
    Earlier this year, Canada and the European Union announced plans to negotiate a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), possibly the biggest Canadian trade negotiations since NAFTA. The first round of talks took place in Ottawa in October, yet the treaty has generated practically no public scrutiny. That may change following the leak last week of the European Union’s proposed intellectual property chapter.
  • 22-Dec-2009 Business Day
    South Africa: Fisheries pact with EU has to wait
    The conclusion of a fisheries agreement between SA and the European Union has had to take second place to other considerations, even though SA’s fish exports to the EU are attracting duties that some other countries’ are not.
  • 22-Dec-2009 ANSAmed
    EU-Morocco: Accord on agricultural trade liberalisation
    The accord, Brussels explained, reinforces the position of European exporters in the Moroccan market, above all in the processed food sector.
  • 22-Dec-2009 AP
    China envoy’s Taiwan visit stirs backlash
    A senior Chinese envoy’s visit to Taiwan for trade talks has sparked a backlash among critics who fear the Taiwanese government’s China-friendly policies are opening the door to eventual unification with the mainland.
  • 21-Dec-2009 Bernama
    Washington awaits KL’s decision on TPP
    The United States is still awaiting Malaysia’s decision on whether to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations.
  • 21-Dec-2009 Jakarta Globe
    Cosmetics association asks for exemption from FTA
    Indonesian cosmetics and herbal medicine producers are calling for an exemption for their products from the Asean-China free trade agreement. “It is not because we are not ready. The question is our products are even now having to compete with illegal Chinese imports which are usually cheaper but of questionable quality.”
  • 21-Dec-2009 Reuters
    Thousands protest in Taiwan over China trade talks
    Thousands of people marched in Taiwan on Sunday to protest against warming ties with political rival China, a day before Beijing’s top negotiator arrives on the island for talks on a landmark free trade pact.
  • 21-Dec-2009 Press TV
    Taiwanese ire at looming free trade with China
    Thousands of protesters have swarmed the streets of the central Taiwanese town of Taichung, promoting resistance against pending trade relations with China.
  • 21-Dec-2009 Xinhua
    Panama advances on free trade dialogue with European countries
    Panama will negotiate a free trade agreement with members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Panaman’s Ministry of Commerce and Industries said on Sunday.
  • 19-Dec-2009 LIP
    Peru seeks to close free trade agreement with EU by Jan. 2010
    "I think negotiations with the European Union will be completed by the end of January 2010," pointed out the Peruvian trade minister, who added that only two or three issues are still yet to solve by both part’s ministers.
  • 18-Dec-2009 Kyodo
    Japan, Mongolia agree to study possibility of bilateral FTA
    Japan and Mongolia on Thursday agreed to hold working-level talks to study whether the two countries should conclude a bilateral free trade agreement, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.
  • 16-Dec-2009 Big Pond News
    Greens on FTA with Japan
    Australia should not agree to a free trade agreement (FTA) with Japan unless the Asian nation stops whaling in the Southern Ocean, the Australian Greens say.
  • 16-Dec-2009 Bernama
    South Korea, Japan to hold free trade negotiations next week
    South Korea and Japan will hold the fourth round of their bilateral free trade talks next week in Seoul next week, Seoul’s trade ministry said Wednesday
  • 16-Dec-2009 Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York
    US think tank admits NAFTA failed Mexico
    The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an influential Washington DC-based think tank, released “Rethinking Trade Policy for Development: Lessons From Mexico Under NAFTA,” challenging what the report notes is a widespread assumption in the US “that Mexico was the undeniable winner from NAFTA.”
  • 16-Dec-2009 Global Times
    China, Norway start sixth round of FTA talks
    Negotiators from China and Norway started in Oslo on Tuesday morning the sixth round of free trade area(FTA) talks, which will last till Thursday.