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  • 26-Jun-2009 GNA
    EPA October deadline may be missed
    Dr Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, Trade Programme Co-ordinator for Civil Society Organizations in West Africa, is sure that negotiations would probably continue till January 2010 since both the EU and ECOWAS had not agreed on the percentage of the market they intend to be liberalized.
  • 26-Jun-2009 IPS
    Deny neoliberal consensus
    Right now, the EU’s EPAs are devastating Africa’s regional economic blocs through divide-and-conquer, reversing the resistance we saw from African countries a year ago.
  • 26-Jun-2009 AllAfrica.com
    West Africa: Regional EPA targets October
    The European Union and the West African countries have agreed to conclude a regional agreement on trade in goods and development cooperation by October 2009.
  • 26-Jun-2009 Jakarta Post
    RI, NZ bilateral FTA arrangements to conclude within months: FM
    Indonesian and New Zealand Free Trade Agreement talks under the auspices of the ASEAN bloc have been progressing well despite the economic crisis and both countries expect the bilateral arrangement can be concluded within months, say foreign ministers.
  • 25-Jun-2009 Korea Herald
    FTAs intensify competition in imported beef market
    The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada are all vying for Korea’s beef market through FTAs, with Australia currently gaining ground.
  • 25-Jun-2009 The Nation
    Asean-Canada trade, investment pact closer
    Asean and Canada will soon finalise consideration of a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), preparing the way for free-trade agreement negotiations.
  • 25-Jun-2009 Law.com
    Argentine crisis arbitration awards pile up, but investors still wait for a payout
    It’s time for the US Department of State to pressure Argentina to comply with its treaty obligations, some lawyers suggest.
  • 25-Jun-2009 Washington Post
    Many US House Democrats want trade policy revamp
    Political pressure grew on President Barack Obama to reconsider pending trade deals with Panama, Colombia and South Korea as over 100 lawmakers called on Wednesday for a massive revamp of US trade policy.
  • 25-Jun-2009 Mike Michaud
    106 members of Congress introduce TRADE Act, promote a better trade model
    Endorsed by more than a dozen fair trade groups, the TRADE Act would revamp US trade policy.
  • 24-Jun-2009 New Era
    Geingob sheds light on EPAs
    The Minister of Trade and Industry Dr Hage Geingob yesterday provided rare behind-the-scene reasons that have kept the protracted Economic Partnership Agreement between Namibia and the European Union from being concluded despite months of negotiations.
  • 24-Jun-2009 Stikeman Eliott LLP
    Protecting foreign investment from political risk
    In today’s risk averse environment investment protection agreements are also increasingly attractive to protect pension and mutual fund investments.
  • 24-Jun-2009 Moscow Times
    Medvedev trip looks to secure Africa’s riches
    President Dmitry Medvedev is embarking Tuesday on a four-day African tour, beginning with a visit to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak before moving on to Nigeria, Namibia and Angola. Medvedev’s trip appears focused on helping Russian companies gain additional access to the continent’s natural resources wealth.
  • 24-Jun-2009 Korea Herald
    Korea, India to expedite free trade deal
    Foreign ministers from Korea and India agreed on Tuesday to expedite a bilateral free trade agreement between the two countries.
  • 24-Jun-2009 Embassy Magazine
    Peruvian violence prompts concerns over Canada’s push for free trade deals
    While a great deal of scrutiny has been directed toward Canada’s free trade agreement with Colombia, there has been little said about a similar deal with Peru. In fact, last Wednesday, on one of the final days of Parliament, that agreement barely made a ripple as it quietly received Royal Assent.
  • 24-Jun-2009 Institute of International Trade
    “India and Eu’s combined strategy for the free-trade pact worsen its position at WTO”
    The most affected from the EU-India FTA will be India’s dairy farming sector, where regularly five million women and 15 million men work to meet their daily needs.
  • 24-Jun-2009 Business Standard
    Vicious sting in the tail of FTAs
    What is slowly emerging is the beginning of a composite oppositition to FTAs in India.
  • 23-Jun-2009 COHA
    Murder in Peru: Indigenous rights and corporate interests
    Alan Garcia has gotten Peru into an incredibly difficult situation. It is only too likely that governments of nearby countries, like Colombia, will soon find themselves in similarly frustrating situations, whereby foreign investors’ intrinsic power would be equal to, or even greater than, the host government’s ability to legislate on the behalf of the population.
  • 23-Jun-2009 Jordan Times
    Jordan-Canada FTA ’in final stages’
    "This is the fastest FTA we have ever negotiated," says Canada’s ambassador in Amman.
  • 22-Jun-2009 Business Mirror
    RP set to ratify free-trade pact with Australia, New Zealand
    While not part of the official AANZFTA negotiations, the Philippine government is preparing to ratify the free-trade agreement it signed as a member of ASEAN with the governments of Australia and New Zealand.
  • 22-Jun-2009 Panama Star
    FTA between Panama and the United States: Re-negotiations imminent?
    US congressmen are pressuring Panama to reduce the number of people who can form a union from 40 to 20 and to give foreigners the right to head union organizations in Panama.