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US agrees to direct engagement with stakeholders on TPPA, says MTEM
27-Apr-2014
The US has agreed to hold direct engagements with key stakeholders on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), according to the Malay business lobby group Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) today.
US commerce chief sees TPP agreement this year
27-Apr-2014
US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said she thinks the US and 11 other nations brokering an Asia-Pacific trade deal will reach an agreement they can send to the US Congress this year.
Afraid of free trade
25-Apr-2014
Diplomacy in South Asia is given over to give-no-quarter bureaucrats, who cleave to a nationalism that continues to trump economics.
Pak moves int’l forum against Turkish power firm
25-Apr-2014
The Ministry of Water and Power has approached the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and challenged the jurisdiction of a tribunal which has been hearing a damage suit worth $334 million sought by a Turkish power firm, Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim (KKEU), against Pakistan.
Gloom as Kenya fails to meet Comesa rule
25-Apr-2014
Kenyan sugarcane farmers and consumers face a bleak future, as Government departments tasked with implementing reforms in the sector drag their feet.
‘COMESA should settle tariff issues on sugar’
25-Apr-2014
Zambia Sugar Plc has expressed concern at the non-application of tariffs on sugar imported outside the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) as it is displacing regional producers.
PH sorts out Japan trade issues
25-Apr-2014
The Philippine government will continue to sort out the trade concerns raised by the Japanese government during the eighth meeting of the subcommittee on the Improvement of Business Environment under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa).
Dr M: Obama’s visit shouldn’t pressure Malaysia into signing TPPA
25-Apr-2014
Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir said Malaysia should not feel pressured into signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) just because of President Barack Obama’s visit to Malaysia this weekend.
India, US must take tough decisions on bilateral trade: Powell
25-Apr-2014
Outgoing US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell said on Friday that the new government post elections could convene a Track 1.5 event during its first 100 days to begin a conversation on how to accomplish $500 billion in bilateral goods and services trade between the two countries.
Despite all, Mercosur is “working normally”, says Paraguayan foreign minister
25-Apr-2014
Paraguay’s foreign minister Eladio Loizaga said that there is no date for the several times suspended Mercosur summit, but a technical meeting is scheduled for next week in Montevideo when the issue, among others will be addressed. Nevertheless he insisted that the different bodies of Mercosur “are working normally”.
Indonesia latest emerging market to reject investment treaties
25-Apr-2014 Global Risk Insights
With Indonesia and a growing crowd of both emerging and developed sovereigns gradually changing the calculus of investment protection, investors may have to engage in an across-the-board rethinking of their FDI strategy.
Malaysia hopeful TPPA will shape up as broad-based FTA in Asia Pacific
25-Apr-2014
Malaysia is hopeful that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will shape up as a broad-based free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region with the eventual outcome of the negotiations taking into account its interests and concerns.
’Certainty’ will be agenda with India’s new govt: US industry
25-Apr-2014 PTI
The US business lobby has said it wants "predictability, certainty and transparency" in India’s economic and trade policies, and this would be its agenda with the new government to be formed after the poll results of the Lok Sabha elections.
How the revolving door lets Hollywood shape Obama’s trade agenda
25-Apr-2014 Vox
The revolving door between industry groups and the Obama administration’s trade shop has been busy lately.
So far, so SOPA: Web campaigners to protest world’s biggest ever free trade deal
25-Apr-2014 The Register
Internet activists are planning a major on- and offline protest at what has been described as a "secretive, SOPA-like" agreement being hammered out as the world’s largest economies attempt to agree the world’s biggest ever free trade deal.
Pas d’accord commercial USA-Japon, mais un soutien réaffirmé
25-Apr-2014 Reuters
La visite de Barack Obama au Japon, qui s’achevait vendredi, n’a pas permis d’aboutir à la conclusion d’un accord commercial entre Washington et Tokyo mais a été marquée par la réaffirmation du soutien américain face aux ambitions chinoises.
A practical look at the 2013 Myanmar-Japan bilateral investment treaty
25-Apr-2014 VDB Loi
On 25 December 2013, Japan and Myanmar signed their first bilateral investment treaty.
Protest likely on April 28, says Colombian farmer leader
25-Apr-2014 Prensa Latina
Colombian farmer leader César Pachón, a representative of the group Dignidad Papera, said that the movement may take to the roads to protest on April 20 against the delay in goverment compliance with agreements with the sector.
Colombia: Where dockers sell their paycheques for loans
24-Apr-2014 Equal Times
The conditions of Buenaventura’s longshore workers, and the harsh reprisals against them for trying to form unions, dramatically illustrate the failure of Colombia’s Labor Action Plan.
CAP calls on PM to withdraw from TPPA during Obama’s visit or at least not to make any concessions to the US President
24-Apr-2014 CAP
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has called on the Malaysian government to inform the United States President that Malaysia will be withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement when Mr. Barack Obama visits Malaysia later this week.