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  • 1-Dec-2009 Reuters
    US senators urge renegotiation of US trade deals
    A group of US senators urged President Barack Obama on Monday to back legislation requiring the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and a long list of other trade pacts they blame for millions of lost US manufacturing jobs.
  • 1-Dec-2009
    Matrix of FTAs in the world
    Contributed by Amalinov
  • 1-Dec-2009 NAUresistance
    Building Blocks Towards an Asia-Pacific Union
    President Obama has recommitted to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Expanding the TPP would further distinguish it as the only regional free trade agreement that spans both sides of the Pacific, linking Asia with the Americas. It could gradually evolve into a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.
  • 30-Nov-2009 Malaysia News.Net
    India-New Zealand trade talks likely early next year
    ’While Indian agriculture is highly protected, improved access for our agricultural and primary produce, especially in an added-value form, needs to be one of the key focuses of the negotiations,’ India-New Zealand Trade Business Council chairman Wenceslaus Anthony said.
  • 30-Nov-2009 NRCU
    Ukraine and Canada to launch talks on free trade zone agreement in 2010
    The first round of talks will be held in February 2010.
  • 30-Nov-2009 swissinfo
    Sino-Swiss free trade accord weighed up
    Switzerland and China have launched a feasibility study aimed at drawing up a free trade agreement between the two countries.
  • 30-Nov-2009 Manila Bulletin
    Auto workers slam DTI on JPEPA auto tariff talks delay
    A group of 75,000 automotive industry workers has slammed the Philippines Department of Trade and Industry for lack of earnest efforts to negotiate a delay in the tariff elimination of imported vehicles under the signed Japan Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
  • 30-Nov-2009 Meat Trade News
    Colombia-US trade deal stuck in the mud
    The third anniversary of the signing of the US-Colombia free trade pact came and went this month with the Obama administration still negotiating the fine print, Congress showing little interest and business groups frustrated by the lack of action on trade deals.
  • 29-Nov-2009 India Journal
    Only half Asean members ratify FTA with India
    India’s trade with South East Asia will be liberalized only partially from January 2010, as half of the 10-nation bloc has not received parliamentary approval for the Free Trade Agreement signed in August.
  • 29-Nov-2009 Fresh Info
    Spanish claim Moroccan fraud
    Fepex, the association which represents Spanish exporters, has claimed that fraud is taking place in import activity of tomatoes from Morocco into the EU, making a mockery of the constraints of the existing Association Agreement.
  • 29-Nov-2009 Dow Jones
    EU, Mercosur may kick-start trade talks at Portugal summit
    While innovation and development is the official theme of the Iberoamerican summit Sunday through Tuesday, Spain and Portugal want to use the meeting to revive long-stalled talks to reach a free-trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur economic bloc.
  • 29-Nov-2009 Syria News Wire
    Syria considers European deal
    The EU finally agreed to its trade deal with Syria in October. Syria surprised Europe by saying it needed time to decide. Now it has admitted why – Syrian businessmen are concerned about competition from European companies.
  • 29-Nov-2009 Wall Street Journal
    Peru signs agreement with European free trade pact nations
    Peru formally concluded a joint free trade agreement with Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland on Friday, said trade and tourism minister Martin Perez.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Viet Nam Net
    EU wants to negotiate FTA with Vietnam
    After failure in FTA negotiation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the last over one years, Schlegelmilch said that the EU wants to seek another approach before the Vietnam-EC Joint Committee’s meeting on November 26-27 in Hanoi.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Carbbean Net News
    ACP countries: Sidelined by Europe again?
    The European Union (EU) has not included in the Lisbon Treaty a crucial article that was a feature of treaties between the EU and African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Business Daily
    Arusha meeting key to breaking deadlock over EPAs trade deal
    Representatives of East Africa Community governments and the private sector hope to use a two-day meeting that starts in Arusha on Friday to break the deadlock with the European Commission over Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations.
  • 27-Nov-2009 EU Business
    Japan PM suggests trade pact to new EU leader
    Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama stressed the need for a free trade pact with Europe in a phone conversation on Thursday with incoming EU president Herman Van Rompuy, the foreign ministry said.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Times Live
    Farmers protected from Zimbabwe deal
    South African farmers in Zimbabwe will not forfeit their land or investments as a result of a bilateral agreement still to be signed, a Pretoria judge ordered.
  • 27-Nov-2009 Bloomberg
    US asks Japan to join Pacific-rim trade talks, Nikkei ays
    The US government wants Japan to join talks for a proposed free trade agreement involving Pacific Rim countries, Nikkei English News said. Australia, Vietnam, Peru, Malaysia, Singapore, Chile, New Zealand and Brunei have said they will enter the negotiations.
  • 27-Nov-2009 The Gov Monitor
    Australia to review impact of bilateral and regional trade agreements
    The review will examine the effects of bilateral and regional trade agreements on Australia’s trade and economic performance.