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Services: to liberalize or not?
31-May-2011
The Southern Africa Development Community and the Common Market for East and Southern Africa are currently in the process of liberalizing trade in services.
FTA to give Indian professionals access to New Zealand market
10-May-2011
New Zealand will offer greater market access to Indian professionals in the proposed free trade pact the two countries are currently negotiating, Trade Minister Tim Groser said here today.
Services agreement likely with India as we expand FTA: Abhisit Vejjajiva, PM, Thailand
6-Apr-2011
Six years after India and Thailand executed a limited free-trade agreement involving just 82 products, the two countries are now ready to work on a full-fledged pact in goods, services and investments.
Fear of Indian pros holding up services deal: Malaysia
3-Mar-2011
The proposed agreement between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to open up investments and services sector has met with resistance from some members of the 10-nation bloc who are concerned that free movement of professionals will impact their own workforce.
India urges Saarc states to ratify services trade deal
9-Feb-2011 Economic Times
India on Tuesday urged all member-states to ratify the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Agreement on Trade in Services, terming it a "big step forward" for increasing trade within the region.
India pushing for services pacts with individual Asean members
4-Jan-2011 IIFL
Changing its strategy, India is aiming to enter comprehensive bilateral trade agreements with more individual members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, as a services agreement with the multilateral body remains elusive.
Demystifying regional services trade agreements
17-Dec-2010 Demystifying Regional Services Trade Agreements
Summarises basic features of a regional services trade agreement with specific reference to India and Sri Lanka
India-Asean services deal hits roadblock
15-Dec-2010
The negotiations to conclude a services and investment deal under the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the Asean countries have hit a stonewall.
Negotiating services with ASEAN
8-Dec-2010
What can India do to show flexibility while safeguarding its core market access interests? A solution seems to present itself from the experience of the recently implemented ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA.
India-ASEAN services, investment pact negotiations reviewed
27-Aug-2010
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma met commerce ministers from ten ASEAN Member States at Da Nang, Vietnam, today to review India-ASEAN services and investment agreement negotiations.
ASEAN, Japan aim to strike deal on services, investment next year
23-Aug-2010 Mainichi
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Japan aim to strike a deal on liberalization of trade in services, and investment next year for incorporation into their two-year-old free trade deal, according to the draft of a joint statement for next week’s meeting of their economic ministers in Vietnam.
New FTA policy: Everything or nothing
11-Jun-2010
Unhappy with its free trade agreement (FTA) partners who backtrack on promises to amplify the scope of these agreements with liberalisation of trade in services, the government has decided not to enter into agreements unless talks on services and goods are concluded simultaneously.
Services to be liberalised
9-Jun-2010
If entering into trade agreements is opening up the floodgates to bigger countries, then some in Sri Lanka do not want the flood-gates opened to India, but the government has already done so, for seven other countries besides India. CEPA is carved in stone, some claim, but it is far from reality
DNA wants a CEPA debate
31-May-2010 Daily Mirror
The Democratic National Alliance in Sri Lanka has decided to ask for a parliamentary debate on the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to be signed with India and asked the government to disclose the contents of the agreement.
South Asia Agreement on Trade: 7 countries to ehance trade in services
17-Mar-2010
South Asia Agreement on Trade in Services among seven South Asian countries including Pakistan and India is expected to end by the end of 2010, official sources informed Daily Times on Monday.
FTA with ASEAN to be widened
16-Feb-2010 The Hindu
India and the ten-member ASEAN block will hold parleys on ways to conclude talks before the August 2010 deadline to widen the scope of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to include services and investment expected to provide huge opportunity to Indian professionals to work in Southeast Asia.
India to fast-track talks to sew up ASEAN services trade pact
27-Jan-2010 Economic Times
India will try to expedite negotiations on opening up trade in services with the 10-member ASEAN at a senior officials meeting next week in Jakarta.
EPA deal: Impasse on services persists
18-Jan-2010 The East African
Although the region has concluded a deal on market access to the European Union, there remain fundamental disagreements on trade in services. The EastAfrican has learnt that the matter will be left out of any deals signed this year as countries want it handled at a bilateral level.
India seeks demand list from Asean nations
14-Dec-2009 Economic Times
India has taken the first concrete step towards concluding a deal with the Asean for liberalising trade in services, including cross-border movement of professionals, sending a request list to all Asean members pointing out where exactly the country wants greater access.
Courting a reluctant partner in India
17-Nov-2009
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s current visit to India will be applauded by the Indian diaspora and recognizes both India’s economic rise and its ability to weather the global financial crisis. The visit has replaced mutual indifference with mutual interest.