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  • 16-Jan-2008 Norman Girvan
    EU-Caribbean FTA (2007)
    As initialled on 16 Dec 2007 and signed on 15 Oct 2008
  • 16-Jan-2008 Norman Girvan
    Implications of the Cariforum-EC EPA
    The Cariforum-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is more than just a trade agreement: its scope embraces many subjects that have up to now been solely or mainly within national and regional jurisdiction. As a legally binding international instrument it embodies a far higher degree of supranational governance than that of Caricom. It will, inevitably, condition the scope and content of future agreements made between Caricom and other major trading partners and the region’s stance in WTO negotiations.
  • 16-Jan-2008 Bulatlat
    Militants hit Roxas statement on JPEPA
    Anti-JPEPA groups criticized Philippine Senator Mar Roxas’ statement that he will advocate ratification of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement as tantamount to "conditioning the public’s mind that the controversial JPEPA will be ratified by the Senate very soon."
  • 16-Jan-2008 Chosun Ilbo
    GNP whip calls for secret ballot to ratify FTA
    In a party caucus on Tuesday, Korea’s Grand National Party floor leader Ahn Sang-soo called on lawmakers to ratify the free trade agreement with the US by secret ballot if necessary.
  • 16-Jan-2008 AllAfrica.com
    East African Community to negotiate trade agreements with the US
    The East African Community (EAC) is preparing to negotiate a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with the United States.
  • 15-Jan-2008 Trinidad Express
    EPA - the MAI in disguise?
    In the late 1990s, Europe attempted to impose investment conditions and policies under the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) which was shot down by the anti-MAI campaign supported by the developing countries. It appears to have achieved much of the same through the Caribbean Economic Partnership Agreement.
  • 15-Jan-2008 MEMRI
    Yemen to join GCC, Gulf-EU Free Trade Agreement to be signed
    Yemen will soon become a regular member of the GCC, following the GCC leaders’ agreement to a request by Saudi King Abdallah. In addition, a GCC-EU free trade agreement is expected to be signed during 2008.
  • 14-Jan-2008 AP
    Malaysia, US resume free trade Talks
    The United States and Malaysia resumed formal talks Monday for a free trade agreement, nearly a year after discussions stalled amid differences over Malaysia’s government procurement policy.
  • 14-Jan-2008 Lanka Business
    Sri Lanka stops pepper exports to India under free trade deal
    Sri Lanka has stopped exporting pepper under the Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) because of restrictions imposed by India, a top exporter has said.
  • 14-Jan-2008 Nation News
    CARICOM/Canada trade talks start next month
    The first full round of negotiations on a Canada/ CARICOM Free Trade Agreement is scheduled to get started next month.
  • 14-Jan-2008 NZ Herald
    Trade: The $1b game of patience
    State of play with New Zealand’s trade negotiations
  • 14-Jan-2008 The Dominion
    Impacting unimpaired
    Both TILMA and the SPP have specific aims that go beyond the usual attempt to enshrine investors’ rights and protect corporations from government regulations. Both agreements pave the way for the largest industrial project in history to move forward: a project that calls for the extraction of over 170 billion barrels of recoverable oil from the tar sands of Alberta’s Athabasca, Peace and Cold Lake regions.
  • 14-Jan-2008 New Straits Times
    Agriculture takes a toll on Japanese economy
    Free-trade deals had been the linchpin of a perceived strategy to break long-standing policy deadlocks in Japan, and to pry open agriculture to market mechanisms and competition. But uncertainty has set in.
  • 14-Jan-2008 FE
    Olive oil imports set to rise post India-EU FTA
    The proposed India-EU free trade agreement may open doors for easy import of olive oil from Europe. Major olive oil exporting countries like Spain, Italy, and Greece are insisting upon India to reduce its duty, remove non-tariff barriers and other local taxes and levies and marketing restrictions like maximum retail price system that guarantee a 35% margin to the retailer.
  • 14-Jan-2008 TOI
    Chinese exports to India rising fast
    India Inc may have got some ammunition to ward off a free trade agreement with China. A study has revealed a steep growth in major manufactured good imports from China.
  • 14-Jan-2008 NUPGE
    Stephen Harper’s bizarre logic of free trade with Colombia
    How can Canada denounce human rights abuses in China while turning a blind eye to the mass political murder of trade unionists in Colombia?
  • 14-Jan-2008 TLB
    Canada announces start of bilateral investment treaty negotiations with Mongolia
    On January 9 2008, Canada announced that it will commence negotiations of a bilateral investment treaty with Mongolia. This is good news for Canadian mining companies...
  • 13-Jan-2008 Business Standard
    India, EU to make trade pact offers in February
    Even as experts doubt the possibility of a “deep free trade agreement” between India and the European Union (EU), both sides are likely to exchange offers on goods and services by the end of the next month.
  • 12-Jan-2008 SunStar
    Senator says passage of JPEPA lost cause
    The passage of the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is most likely a lost cause, said Philippine Senator Pia Cayetano, chair of the Senate committee on environment. She said even Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, chair of the Senate committee on finance, said JPEPA "is not going to make it".
  • 11-Jan-2008 NDTV
    FTA with China unlikely: Nath
    India and China are expected to sign dozens of trade deals during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s three-day visit to China from January 13, but India is wary of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China.