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  • 1-Jul-2008
    Bimstec meet will focus on poverty, food security
    Seven countries of the Bay of Bengal rim will plan a common agenda for agriculture development to ensure food security and measures aimed at poverty alleviation at their first ministerial meeting here on 9 July.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    European trade bloc EFTA eyes closer ties with Asia
    Ministers from the four-nation European economic grouping EFTA agreed on Monday to extend their network of free-trade and investment pacts to India and key Southeast Asian countries.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    $1bn under threat
    The Fiji Sugar Corporation might not be able to meet the first quota under the billion-dollar export deal with the European Union if cane supply problems continue.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    McCain to talk free trade in Latin America
    John McCain has changed his mind about the president’s tax cuts and drilling for oil off the U.S. coast, but the Republican presidential hopeful says his advocacy of free trade is unyielding.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    China deal lacking support
    The number of no votes, have outnumbered the yes votes in submissions on the government’s Free Trade Agreement with China.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Action alert: Write a letter to the President of South Korea
    Please write a letter to the President of South Korea to immediately stop the police crackdown and imprisonment of people engaged in protest against the Korea-US beef.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Economic Partnerships Matter
    We are told that the fundamental principles and objectives of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and CARIFORUM states are defined by the Cotonou Agreement. We are advised that this agreement seeks to create sustainable development of the states, their smooth and gradual integration in the world market, and eradication of poverty.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Indonesia-Japan economic partnership agreement goes into effect tomorrow
    Tomorrow will be a historic day for Indonesia and Japan as the two countries sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) which will go into effect on July 1, 2008.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Govt ‘must include workers in EPA talks’
    The Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC) has written to the interim Government to include workers in talks regarding the various trade agreements Fiji is treaty to.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Investment a likely hotbed in FTA talk
    Canberra’s decision — or non-decision — about Sinosteel’s move on Murchison came as less of a surprise within China than it did in Australia.
  • 29-Jun-2008 AFP
    More than 100 injured in SKorea beef protests
    South Korean police clashed violently with protesters opposing US beef imports in Seoul, leaving more than 100 people injured
  • 29-Jun-2008 Xinhua
    S Korea, EU to hold minister-level talks on FTA
    Trade ministers from South Korea and the European Union will meet next week to resolve contentious issues such as auto trade and rules of origin in their free trade negotiations
  • 29-Jun-2008 PTI
    India, Indonesia close to sorting differences in ASEAN FTA
    India is believed to be working out a trade off with Indonesia on palm oil, the last hurdle to a Free Trade Agreement that New Delhi has been negotiating with ASEAN for several years.
  • 28-Jun-2008 Engineering News
    Sacu, EU to sign interim economic partnership agreement next week
    The Southern African Customs Union plans to sign an interim economic partnership agreement with the European Union next week. At the end of 2007, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland had all decided to initiate an Interim EPA with the EU, but South Africa had decided against. The union on Friday said all five of its members were now working together, and that the union intended to sign an interim EPA with the EU by July 1.
  • 28-Jun-2008 Xinhua
    Mexico seeks combined FTA with Central American countries
    Mexico has begun negotiations with several Central American countries to merge its three individual Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with them into a single one
  • 27-Jun-2008 TMC Net
    Japan, Switzerland in last-minute talks on free trade accord
    Japan and Switzerland continued last-minute negotiations Friday on a broad agreement to liberalize bilateral trade. They had planned to strike a deal Friday, but some differences apparently remain regarding how to liberalize imports of Swiss agricultural products to Japan.
  • 27-Jun-2008 Hankyoreh
    Opposition parties launch campaigns to nullify beef announcement
    South Korea’s opposition parties declared the official announcement to resume imports of US beef null and void and launched a series of campaigns to have it withdrawn. Opposition party members have also proposed plans to hold a national referendum on the beef agreement and plan to seek other forms of legal action against it.
  • 27-Jun-2008 Reuters
    New protests as South Korea checks US beef for import
    Militant protesters blocked trucks from leaving warehouses for a second day on Friday as South Korea resumed quarantine checks on US beef imports, moving to bring the product to market for the first time in nine months.
  • 27-Jun-2008 Jakarta Post
    RI warned of toxic waste from Japan
    Environmental groups have warned that Japan could "dispose waste" in Indonesia under an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) the countries signed last year.
  • 27-Jun-2008 PIA
    ASEAN SecGen urges early entry into force of ASEAN-Japan Trade and Economic Pact
    The Secretary-General of ASEAN Dr. Surin Pitsuwan welcomed the ratification of the ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP) Agreement by the Japanese Diet on June 21.