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Bilateral trade: Pakistan, South Korea reiterate ties
4-May-2012
Islamabad and Seoul can raise bilateral trade up to $3 billion, for which both governments should expedite negotiations to sign a free trade agreement and encourage the visit of business delegations and exhibitors from either side, said a press release obtained from the Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) on Thursday.
US exporting obesity to Mexico
4-May-2012 US News & World Report
According to "Exporting Obesity," a recent paper from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, allowed the U.S. to send even more of its massive quantities of corn, soybeans, sugar, meat, and other foods to Mexico. An influx of cheap calories helped to push Mexico’s obesity rate upward.
Ford asks steep price for Japan to join trade talks
4-May-2012 Reuters
Japan should be required to reduce the size of its auto industry before being allowed into regional free trade talks with the United States and eight other countries in the Asia Pacific, a top Ford Motor Co official said.
The return of investment policy — The U.S. is back in the game
4-May-2012 Huffington Post
Foreign investment policy hasn’t been the main focus of the U.S. government in recent years. However, this may begin to change and industry leaders should not stay behind.
EU trade deal could send drug prices soaring, provinces warn Harper
4-May-2012 Postmedia News
Provincial governments are expressing concern about the prospect of sharply higher prescription drug prices for Canadians if the Harper government accepts European Union demands for expanded drug patent protection laws.
Seoul to limit fallout of China FTA on farm sector
4-May-2012 ThePoultrySite
South Korea will draw up safeguard measures to minimise the fallout of a free trade agreement (FTA) with China on its farming sector, the Seoul government said.
Kaesong Complex could be given special status
3-May-2012
South Korea and China have agreed to designate the Kaesong Industrial Complex an outward processing zone (OPZ). The agreement was made shortly before the two countries’ trade ministers declared the opening of negotiations for a South Korea-China free trade agreement (FTA).
Long, bumpy road to FTA with China
3-May-2012
Trade minister Park Tae-ho has declared the opening of free trade agreement negotiations with China, but a rough road lies ahead. In addition to concerns about the major blow an FTA would deal to the domestic agriculture and fishing sectors and small manufacturers, questions are also being raised about the economic effects of recent FTAs with the European Union and United States.
Free trade plans with China announced
3-May-2012
On May 2, South Korea and China formally announced the beginning of negotiations toward a bilateral free trade agreement.
Agriculture at risk under FTA with China
3-May-2012
Major concerns about a potential South Korea-China free trade agreement are already being voiced by the agriculture community and small manufacturers.
Argentina: Towards a possible new withdrawal from ICSID?
2-May-2012
As long as States, like Argentina and many others, accumulate a large amount of cases against them or obtain sistematically wrong results before ICSID arbitrators — which is the rule, with a very few exceptions — it is possible that the list of ICSID withdrawals will increase in the Americas.
Treaties that gave away the store
1-May-2012 The Hindu
As India grapples with the Vodafone and 2G fallout, the Bilateral Investment Treaties it signed a few years ago are coming back to haunt it.
Supreme Court recommends renegotiation of ISD clause
30-Apr-2012 The Hankyoreh
Controversial KORUS FTA clause could lead to ‘legal chaos’, says Korea’s top legal body
Iran, Syria set to implement free trade agreement
29-Apr-2012 Eurasia Review
Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine and Commerce Mehdi Ghazanfari says the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Islamic Republic and Syria is set to be implemented, according to Press TV.
Canada: The real cost of free trade
28-Apr-2012 Operation Maple
EU and Asean confirm objective of free trade agreement
27-Apr-2012 The Nation
Foreign Ministers of the EuropeanUnion and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) re-stated their commitment Friday to an eventual free trade agreement between the two economic zones.
Blasting ‘weak-kneed’ skeptics, Tories fan out to plug EU trade deal
27-Apr-2012 Globe and Mail
The Harper government’s PR machine will be working overtime Friday as 40 per cent of the Conservative Canadian cabinet fans out across the country to shore up support for a free trade deal with the European Union.
Treaties that gave away the store
27-Apr-2012
As India grapples with the Vodafone and 2G fallout, the Bilateral Investment Treaties it signed a few years ago are coming back to haunt it.
EPAs will take the EAC countries to early grave
26-Apr-2012
East African governments are negotiating for Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU). The EPAs are free trade agreements based on the principle of reciprocity. They require Africa to open up its borders to duty and tariff-free goods and services from Europe. But numerous studies posit that this unequal partnership will have disastrous consequences on African citizens.
’Gringo superpigs’ threaten Colombia’s pork trade: Report
26-Apr-2012 Colombia Reports
The new FTA with the U.S. will bring "gringo superpigs" to Colombia, threatening the country’s domestic pork trade, newspaper Diario Del Huila claimed Wednesday.