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PM sets March 2012 deadline for services FTA with Asean
19-Nov-2011
There are few places in Southeast Asia that carry as deep an imprint of India’s civilisational links as Bali, a majority Hindu island in a country that has the world’s largest Islamic population.
Discussions Start On Industrial Policy
19-Nov-2011
The country’s draft policy on industrialisation is finally ready for public discussion after years of private sector grousing over its absence and the consequent devastating effects on Namibia’s overall market competitiveness.
Botswana stands to lose billions in SACU revenues
19-Nov-2011
The global economic crisis, along with other evolving structural factors within SACU, could cut a P5-billion permanent hole in revenues that Botswana receives from the customs union, the IMF estimates.
U.S. has never agreed to detrimental FTA revision: study
19-Nov-2011
An examination of past free trade agreements ratified by the United States showed there have been no post-ratification amendments detrimental to the United States.
Dissension within DP over united opposition to KORUS FTA
19-Nov-2011
Controversy is flaring within the Democratic Party (DP) over remarks about the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) by Incheon Mayor Song Young-gil and South Chungcheong Governor Ahn Hee-jung.
Trade winds: India-EU FTA may face a delay
19-Nov-2011
There is little chance that the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU) would be signed before or at the India-EU summit to be held in New Delhi in February next year, a top German official said.
Ecuador, ¿verdaderamente libre de transgénicos?
18-Nov-2011 Pandemic of Lies: The Exile
En el Ecuador la entrada de productos de soya provenientes de países donde casi la totalidad de los sembríos de dicha leguminosa es transgénica crea serias sospechas de que se estuviera infringiendo el Art. 401 de la Constitución 2008 que declara al país “libre de cultivos y semillas transgénicas”.
TPP may affect China’s possible FTA with S. Korea, Japan: scholar
17-Nov-2011
An envisioned regional free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific may affect China’s possible free trade agreements with South Korea and Japan, giving the world’s No. 2 economy less bargaining power, a Chinese scholar said Thursday.
ASEAN’s newer members and the Asian noodle bowl: coming to grips with multilateralism
17-Nov-2011 EABER
Jayant Menon discusses the trade policy challenges faced by Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV)—the newest members of ASEAN. The paper concludes that the multilateralised single-rate system is a better alternative to the multiple-rate system and thus suggests that CLMV countries should follow the original ASEAN members and multilateralize their CEPT tariff preferences. It encourages both old and new members to do the same, especially in the context of proliferating ASEAN+1 FTAs
Pak talks trade pact with India, inches closer to MFN status
14-Nov-2011 Business Standard
Bilateral trade talks between New Delhi and Islamabad inched yet another step towards Pakistan granting India a ‘most favoured nation’ (MFN) status, even as both neighbours today laid “strong foundation” for a preferential trade agreement.
European Union hopeful FTA negotiations will be completed by February
14-Nov-2011 First Post
Admitting that some issues are blocking the finalisation of the Free Trade Agreement with India, the European Union on Monday voiced hope that negotiations would be completed by the next India-EU Summit scheduled to be held in February.
Clinton to launch US, PHL partnership on trade, investments
14-Nov-2011 GMA News
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is visiting the Philippines on Tuesday to initiate the Obama administration’s Partnership for Growth (PFG) program for devising measures to facilitate trade and investments in conflict, poverty and graft stricken countries
PM Key says NZ drug-buyer Pharmac may not be changed under Trans Pacific Partnership talks, but fine details still yet to be sorted
14-Nov-2011 Interest.co.nz
New Zealand drug-buying agency Pharmac may not be hit with any changes under the Trans Pacific Partnership deal being negotiated with United States, although the finer details of the Pacific trade agreement are yet to be ironed out, Prime Minister John Key says.
Korea’s imports exceed exports after FTA with EU
14-Nov-2011 Arirang
The rate of imports has overwhelmed that of exports for the past three months from July when the Korea-EU FTA kicked into effect.
40,000 against the KORUS FTA
14-Nov-2011 Hankyoreh
Tens of thousands of laborers hold a “Nationwide Workers’ Rally” hosted by Korea Confederation of Trade Unions in front of Seoul City Hall, Nov. 13 against the far-reaching implications of the Korea-US FTA
American for-profit hospitals to expand under KORUS FTA: report
14-Nov-2011 Hankyoreh
With the passage of the South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA), the American medical industry expects to widen its opportunities to establish for-profit hospitals in South Korea in addition to limiting domestic authority to close them once they are established, according to a report by the US Department of Commerce released Sunday.
WTO fatigue fuels Asia-Pacific trade deal: NZ minister
14-Nov-2011 Reuters
Impatience with long-running world trade talks, and a desire to snap out of slow economic growth, explain why countries are flocking to a US-led Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said on Sunday.
US welcomes Canada and Mexico’s joining TPP free trade talks
14-Nov-2011 Mainichi
The United States on Sunday welcomed Canada and Mexico’s willingness to join negotiations on a Pacific free trade accord.
Japan, US at odds with PM Noda’s free trade comment
14-Nov-2011 Reuters
Japan has denied a White House statement that Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told US President Barack Obama he would put all goods and services on the negotiating table for trade liberalisation. The White House stood by its statement, issued on Saturday, despite Japan’s denial.
S. Koreans demand rejection of US free trade pact
14-Nov-2011 Reuters
Tens of thousands of South Koreans, most of them members of trade unions and farmers, staged a rally on Sunday against a free trade deal with the United States, vowing to block what they called a “pernicious” pact.