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Building blocks laid for trade deal
10-Dec-2010 Stuff
What was achieved in the fourth round of negotiations, and why exactly a TPP would be good for New Zealand, remains a mystery – strictly controlled daily media briefings with Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry chief negotiator Mark Sinclair were short and impenetrable.
Farmers happy at trade policy shake-up
10-Dec-2010 AAP
Australia’s federal government wants to introduce trade reform that focuses less on geopolitical concerns and more on national productivity.
CIS summit to focus on free trade area
10-Dec-2010 Voice of Russia
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are to create a free trade area and single econonmic area
AFL-CIO, Steelworkers split with auto union on Korea trade deal
10-Dec-2010 Bloomberg
The AFL-CIO, the largest US union group, and the United Steelworkers oppose the Obama administration’s trade agreement with South Korea, splitting with unions representing auto and farm workers.
S. Korea, Malaysia seek bilateral FTA, closer ties on energy, defense
10-Dec-2010 Yonhap
In 2007, South Korea launched an FTA with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which includes Malaysia, but Seoul hopes for a higher-level separate FTA with the country, one of South Korea’s major economic partners.
US group stands by intellectual property protection
9-Dec-2010 Radio NZ
An influential American business lobby, the US Chamber of Commerce, has hit out at New Zealand’s position on intellectual property rights in the TransPacific Partnership trade talks.
Q&A: Business Europe: ’India has advantage compared to the other BRIC countries’
9-Dec-2010 Business Standard
Philippe de Buck, secretary general of Business Europe, the most influential EU industry lobby in the region, spoke to Pallavi Aiyar to reflect on the European businesses’ perspective on the potential trade accord.
EPAs bound to stir unhealthy competition
9-Dec-2010 KBC
Kenya Human Rights Commission has called on the government to discontinue Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations with the European Union arguing that if signed would deepen dependency on Europe.
With UAW’s King for cover, Obama backhands labor in Korea trade deal
9-Dec-2010 Labor Notes
UAW sources suggest King felt he had to back the trade deal as payback to Obama for pumping billions into failing automakers in 2009—although the bailout of Chrysler and GM laid off tens of thousands of workers and cut pay—in half—for future auto workers.
South Korean farmers protest against free trade agreement with US
9-Dec-2010 NTDTV
South Korean farmers staged a protest on Wednesday, urging their government to abolish the US- South Korea free trade agreement.
US union backing helps Korea trade pact chances
9-Dec-2010 NY Times
An unusual split in the US labor movement has developed over President Obama’s proposed free-trade pact with South Korea, with two powerful unions backing the deal — a development that experts say will make Congressional ratification far more likely.
Retailers protest against European push for FDI in retail
9-Dec-2010 NewsWorms
Thousands of retailers marched in the streets of Delhi against the onslaught of neo-liberal economic policies, raising slogans against supermarkets, free trade agreements (FTA), forward trading and goods and services tax.
MEPs protest FTA with Colombia
9-Dec-2010 Colombia Reports
Members of the European Parliament say that the EU’s free trade agreement with Colombia should not be approved as there has been little progress on human rights in the Andean nation, reports ABC.
Korea, EU to reopen talks about car provisions in FTA
9-Dec-2010 Chosun Ilbo
Korea will hold talks with the EU over vehicle gas mileage and greenhouse gas emission standards in the free trade agreement after renegotiations of the FTA with the US opened the door for adjustments.
People before profit: Broad civil society alliance calls on European Commission to halt EU-India FTA
9-Dec-2010
On the eve of the 11th EU-India summit, a broad civil society alliance called on the European Commission and the Indian Government to immediately halt the ongoing free trade negotiations between India and the EU.
Negotiating services with ASEAN
8-Dec-2010
What can India do to show flexibility while safeguarding its core market access interests? A solution seems to present itself from the experience of the recently implemented ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA.
UAW President: Critics of Korea treaty don’t represent workers
8-Dec-2010 In These Times
United Auto Workers President Bob King sparked outraged among progressives and the labor movement by endorsing the Korea Free Trade Agreement. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that the treaty will cost 159,000 American jobs over the next five years.
Negotiations on free trade with EU likely to conclude by March: Anand Sharma
8-Dec-2010 The Hindu
"By March, we expect to conclude the negotiations on the free trade agreement," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told PTI.
Japanese, German automakers to benefit from Korea-US FTA
8-Dec-2010 Chosun Ilbo
Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group is bracing for stiffer competition in the domestic market under the Korea-US free trade agreement, as the pact will likely make Japanese and German cars much more price-competitive here.
Trade Invaders - how big business is driving the EU-India free trade talks
8-Dec-2010 Vimeo
This video illustrates how, in the EU-India FTA negotiations, the EU Commission and the Indian government have handed the agenda over to corporate lobby groups. This big-business-first agenda will put at risk the livelihoods of millions of small farmers, street traders and patients.