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President Zardari, King Abdullah for early conclusion of Pak-Jordan FTA
24-Oct-2011 APP
President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and King Abdullah of Jordan on Saturday called for an early conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement and holding of the second round of talks soon for this purpose.
’Save Act’ skips Obama’s FTAs
24-Oct-2011 MB
President Barack Obama on Friday signed three, and possibly the last of his administration, free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama, but skipped the Philippines proposed “Save Our Industries Act,” which the Aquino administration hoped to become a rider in one of these trade bills.
Mexican truck is first in delayed NAFTA program
24-Oct-2011 AP
A Mexican truck crossed into the U.S. on Friday bound for the nation’s interior, fulfilling a long-delayed provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement that had been stalled for years by concerns it could put highway safety and American jobs at risk.
Trade among Gulf Arab states expected to surge by 14 percent: officials
24-Oct-2011 Reuters
Trade among Gulf Arab oil producing countries is expected to grow around 14 percent in 2011 recovering from a contraction two years ago at the height of the global financial downturn, two officials said on Sunday.
TPP - US regulatory coherence proposal (Sep 2011)
24-Oct-2011 CTC
Citizen Trade Campaign has released this September 2011 proposal from the US on regulatory coherence under the Trans Pacific Partnership
TPP - US transparency proposal (2011)
24-Oct-2011 CTC
Citizen Trade Campaign has released this September 2011 proposal from the US on transparency under the Trans Pacific Partnership
TPP - US TBT proposal (2011)
24-Oct-2011 CTC
Citizen Trade Campaign has released this proposed text from the US on technical barriers to trade relating to medical devices and pharmaceuticals under the Trans Pacific Partnership
TPP - US IPR proposal (Sep 2011)
24-Oct-2011 CTC
Citizen Trade Campaign has released this September 2011 proposal from the US on IPR under the Trans Pacific Partnership
Leaked Trans-Pacific FTA texts reveal US undermining access to medicine
23-Oct-2011 CTC
Leaks of US proposals for the Trans-Pacific free trade agreement reveal that the Obama administration has reversed reforms designed to enhance access to affordable medicines made during the George W Bush administration and is instead demanding new rights for pharmaceutical firms to challenge pricing and other drug formulary policies used by many developed countries to keep down prices,
TPPA ’threatens national sovereignty’
21-Oct-2011 IT Wire
Despite the secrecy, there are some intrepid souls who are mounting opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership. Interview with one of them, Jane Kelsey, a professor of law at the University of Auckland and long-term academic activist in the area of free trade and investment agreements.
Govt likely to expand compensation for farmers
21-Oct-2011 Yomiuri Shimbun
With participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership comprehensive trade talks and resumption of an economic partnership agreement with Australia on the horizon, the Japanese government is likely to increase its direct payments to farmers by several hundred billion yen, it has been learned.
Free trade agreements kill people!
20-Oct-2011 Via Campesina
"In light of threats from FTAs and TPP, we call on our governments to completely reject the attempts to conclude the upcoming agreements and to stop the implentation of the previous FTAs."
Civil society platform on IP in the Trans Pacific Partnership
20-Oct-2011 Infojustice
Eight civil society groups have released a platform on the intellectual property and health content of the Trans Pacific Partnership. The platform calls ex-officio border measures “inappropriate,” rejects a “one size fits all” regime for patent validity, and warns against using the suggested retail price or rightholder-submitted measurements of value in the determination of damages for IP infringement.
EU urges China to open public-contract market
20-Oct-2011 European Voice
The European Union is hoping to use next week’s summit with China (25 October) to press the Chinese authorities on obstacles facing European investors and to discuss access for European bidders to China’s public-procurement market.
Noda, Lee push trade talks / Leaders agree to step up efforts to negotiate bilateral pact
20-Oct-2011 Yomiuri Shimbun
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak agreed Wednesday to speed up working-level talks to resume bilateral free trade negotiations.
SA and the EU trade negotiations - A step closer
20-Oct-2011 FM
In negotiations to forge an economic partnership agreement (EPA), the EU has agreed to improve market access for about 80% of the agricultural products South Africa has asked to be accepted. However, the EU has yet to budge on wine, sugar and starch.
ACP, LDC sugar suppliers deplore EC’s CAP proposals
20-Oct-2011 ACP
The ACP and LDC cane sugar suppliers express their profound concern and dismay at the Commission’s proposals in respect of the elimination of sugar quotas in the context of the CAP reform announced on 12 October 2011.
ACP, LDC sugar suppliers deplore EC’s CAP proposals
20-Oct-2011
Final KORUS FTA battle looms at National Assembly
19-Oct-2011 Hankyoreh
Korea’s Democratic Party has set as its platform an approach of blocking the ratification of the US-Korea FTA through any means necessary if its preconditions are not met.
Most CIS countries sign up to free-trade zone
19-Oct-2011 RFE/RL
Years of fruitless negotiations to create a free-trade zone among the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States unexpectedly came to a successful conclusion on October 18, when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appeared before journalists in St. Petersburg and said: "We discussed [a free-trade agreement], made some corrections, and adopted its final text."