19-Sep-2011
Reuters
The European Union’s threat to scrap planned free trade and association agreements with Ukraine if it jails former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is immoral, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Saturday.
19-Sep-2011
Bangkok Post
The Trade Negotiations Department is seeking a clear policy on whether the country will pursue a free trade agreement with the European Union.
16-Sep-2011
Bloomberg
The Pacific partnership, if successful, may eventually expand to include Japan and China, Calman Cohen, president of the Washington-based Emergency Committee for American Trade, a business organization whose members include Citigroup, General Motors and Target, said.
16-Sep-2011
Xinhua
South Africa and the European Union said on Thursday that they will give priority to concluding the EU-Southern African Development Community Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations.
16-Sep-2011
CNA
A visiting high-ranking US official said Thursday that Taiwan’s ban on the importation of specific American beef products is a challenging issue that needs to be addressed before talks can resume over the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) between the two sides.
16-Sep-2011
Xinhua
China and Colombia have taken significant steps toward strengthening their bilateral trade and are expected to soon start negotiations on a free trade agreement, a Colombian economist and diplomat said Thursday.
16-Sep-2011
Bernama
The next round of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between Malaysia and the European Union (EU) is expected to take place next month.
16-Sep-2011
Kyodo
A free trade agreement between Taiwan and the United States is not realistic at the moment as there remain many barriers, a high-level U.S. official said Wednesday.
15-Sep-2011
Seattle to Brussels Network
15-Sep-2011
S2B
On Monday 12 September the General Affairs Council approved negotiating mandates for investment
protection chapters in free trade agreements with Canada, India and Singapore.
14-Sep-2011
APA
The negotiations on Azerbaijan-EU association agreement started last July and cover politics, economy, human rights and trade.
14-Sep-2011
WSJ
India will keep signing free trade pacts with regional blocs and countries to boost merchandise exports, top officials said, as the World Trade Organization’s Doha round of talks remains deadlocked and economies in traditional western markets struggle to recover.
14-Sep-2011
Reuters
The Obama administration on Monday sought to allay concerns that the U.S. push for stronger drug patent protections in a Transpacific trade deal would raise the cost of life-saving treatments out of the reach of the region’s poor people.
14-Sep-2011
India Blooms
The free trade agreement between India and Israel, which has been on the cards for quite some time now, would change the composition of business between the two countries, bringing new sectors like information technology, agriculture and biotechnology into focus, and diversifying away from diamonds
14-Sep-2011
The Namibian
The European Unions’ trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, will meet with Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba, key ministers, as well as the business and civil community in Windhoek today to try and inject new life into the drawn-out negotiations for an economic partnership agreement (EPA) between the two parties.
12-Sep-2011
Pakistan and Malaysia have agreed to enhance bilateral economic cooperation and explore avenues for joint ventures in a host of sectors, including agriculture, construction and Halal industry. The understanding to “tap full potential of bilateral economic relations” was reached in Kuala Lumpur at the first ever meeting of the Pakistan Malaysia Joint Committee on Review of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
12-Sep-2011
Argentina became the last of five South American countries to sign onto a regional free trade agreement with Israel.
12-Sep-2011
India and the European Union (EU) are resuming talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) from tomorrow.
9-Sep-2011
The Guardian
US proposals for the TPP hardly break from the Nafta mold, and many weaken or eliminate the few important advances we’ve seen since Nafta in US trade proposals, write Kevin Gallagher and Timothy Wise in The Guardian
9-Sep-2011
Mainichi
Japan’s new Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd agreed Thursday that the two countries will work toward restarting talks on a bilateral free trade agreement
