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Thousands of Koreans stage street protest against free trade deal with US
13-Dec-2011 Yonhap
Thousands of people rallied in downtown Seoul Saturday in protest of a free trade agreement (FTA) South Korea has signed with the United States, arguing that it unfairly favors Washington.
EU-Georgia free trade agreement takes step closer to reality
13-Dec-2011 The Messenger
The EU and Georgia have launched negotiations on a "deep and comprehensive" free trade agreement
The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter
12-Dec-2011 Be Your Own Leader
A North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control over the continent. Ultimately, the U.S. wants the final say on who is allowed to enter and who is allowed to leave.
New EU trade agreement: Right to food in India threatened
12-Dec-2011 Ecofair Trade Dialogue
MISEREOR, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Third World Network, Anthra and Glopolis decided to conduct their own civil society impact assessment of the proposed EU-India FTA with a focus on the right to food.
Conference on human rights and the EU-India free trade agreement
12-Dec-2011 Greens/EFA
VIdeo of a conference organised by the Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament on 8 December 2011
ACP Group and Brazil make ‘historic’ step towards closer South-South relations
9-Dec-2011 ACP
The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) and the Federative Republic of Brazil today signed a landmark agreement to build South-South solidarity through enhanced technical cooperation and dialogue between the two parties.
Global investment rules: Threat to democracy and the environment
9-Dec-2011 NJGI
Told through the voices of people working to battle the injustices of these rules from countries across the world, the video is a vibrant and visual way to help people understand what is at stake, for our rights, for the environment and for democracy.
EU-India FTA negotiations: DNP+ protest
9-Dec-2011
DNP+ believes that IP should be completely be removed from the trade negotiations.
Legal scholars release critical analysis of US proposals for IP and pharmaceutical chapters of the TPP
9-Dec-2011
The scholars’ analysis concludes that the "US proposals, if adopted, would upset the current international framework balancing the minimum standards for exclusive rights for media and technology owners, on the one hand, and the access rights of the public, competitors, innovators and creators, on the other."
Will the US push for non-labelling of GMOs in trade pact?
9-Dec-2011 TWN
Commentators are worried that the US may be pressuring countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - an Asia-Pacific-wide free trade pact - to abolish the labelling of GM foods, which it regards as a trade barrier.
EU set to launch free trade zone talks with Moldova
8-Dec-2011
The European Union has officially announced that it is preparing to start negotiations to form a free trade zone with Moldova and Georgia, the Moldovan Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry said in a press release, received by Interfax on Tuesday.
ECOWAS Common External Tariff: Examining Pitfalls and Perks
8-Dec-2011
The 11th Meeting of the joint ECOWAS-UEMOA Committee for the Management of the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) opened in Cotonou, Benin Republic on December 5, to review the draft CET Nomenclature, based on the 2012 version of the Harmonized System and the draft ECOWAS CET prepared by the two regional blocs in Banjul, The Gambia, last April.
Japan’s Canadian auto units want Ottawa to strike free-trade deal
8-Dec-2011
The Canadian units of the Japanese auto makers are spearheading an effort to persuade Ottawa to begin negotiations with Japan on a bilateral free-trade agreement amid a new, more liberal attitude the Asian nation is taking toward such deals.
EPAs ‘threaten key sectors’
8-Dec-2011
The signing of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between Europe and the East African bloc (EAC-EPAs) is still uncertain due to disagreements on a number of issues at regional level, as some stakeholders think the signing should not be effected unless some changes are made on the agreement.
Constructing all-round economic and trade partnerships
8-Dec-2011
China stresses all-round development in its foreign trade. China adheres to developing economic and trade partnerships based on practical cooperation and mutual benefit with all countries, no matter whether they are big or small, rich or poor.
Trans-Pacific Trade Talks in Malaysia Underscore Secrecy
8-Dec-2011
The Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks in Malaysia this week underscore the point that critics of this potential trade deal have been making for months: Despite Obama’s pledges to negotiate a high-standard deal and do so transparently, the negotiations continue to take place in extreme secrecy.
Pak-Russia seek trade liberalisation
8-Dec-2011
FTA with EU crucial for Malaysia to become high-income economy by 2020
8-Dec-2011
Malaysia’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) is crucial for the country to achieve its goal of becoming a high-income economy by 2020, says a European Commission spokesman.
FTA will bolster India-Israel trade: Envoy
8-Dec-2011
Bilateral trade between India and Israel is likely to grow to $15 billion from the present $5 billion if the two sides agree to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz said here Wednesday.
Free trade agreements threaten right to food and health
8-Dec-2011
Just on the day when the government suspended its decision on FDI in the retail sector, a report by United Nations’ Working Group on Human Rights in India pointed that the country’s free trade agreements (FTA) threaten the rights to food, health, work and development, especially of vulnerable groups.