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India, Indonesia set to launch talks for FTA
20-Oct-2009 Times of India
After signing India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement as one of the 10 members of the bloc, Jakarta and New Delhi are set to launch negotiations for a similar bilateral deal to open trade in goods and services.
Seventh ALBA Summit prioritises the planet and developing nations
20-Oct-2009 Venezuelanalysis
ALBA countries signed an agreement to implement the common currency "Sucre" (Unified System of Compensation of Reciprocal Payments). The point of the new currency is to use it instead of the US dollar for commercial exchange between member countries.
EU-Korea FTA (2009)
20-Oct-2009
U.S.-Canada Regional Economic and Energy Integration
19-Oct-2009 NAUresistance
Trilateral initiatives, such as NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) have further advanced North American integration. It is also at a state and provincial level that regional integration is being achieved in areas of trade, the environment and energy.
Lawsuit Would Further Expose Secretive SPP Agenda
19-Oct-2009 NAUresistance
The SPP, along with NAFTA have already laid much of the groundwork for a North American Union.
AMCHAM chief rules out FTA renegotiation
19-Oct-2009 Korea Times
The new chief of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea said Monday that the long-stalled Korea-US free trade agreement will not undergo renegotiation, but didn’t rule out "further bilateral discussions" regarding provisions related to the auto sector.
ALBA Alimentos to dodge food crisis
19-Oct-2009 Inside Costa Rica
ALBA Alimentos will emerge as a grand national project aimed at fighting the regional food crisis, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
Statement of Thai Youth Against FTA
19-Oct-2009 ASEAN Youth Movement
“We demand the rights of the people, who are oppressed by the global trade war and join them in a fight for a more just society that consists of an economic system made up of fair trade, diverse socio-cultures, food sovereignty, human rights and a sustainable environment”
Sri Lanka pressed by USTR on IP protection, GM food
19-Oct-2009 Lanka Business
The United States has asked Sri Lanka, ranked high for software piracy in Asia, to better enforce intellectual property rights and also lift restrictions on American imports like genetically modified food.
Sri Lanka may lose clothes trade benefits for alleged human rights abuses
19-Oct-2009 ANI
The European Commission is all set to recommend withdrawal of trade benefits from Sri Lanka after allegations of large scale violation of human rights surfaced during the last stages of the civil war against the LTTE.
ECFA won’t bring laborers: premier
19-Oct-2009 Taipei Times
Premier Wu Den-yih said yesterday that the government would not open the Taiwanese market further to Chinese agricultural products and would not allow the entry of Chinese laborers under the proposed cross-straits FTA, while avoiding questions about how long the bans would be in place.
Syria asks to delay signing of EU partnership agreement
19-Oct-2009 Monsters and Critics
Syria on Sunday asked to postpone the signing of an economic partnership agreement with the European Union, following disputes over provisions covering human-rights and political reform.
Chile asks for revision of FTA
19-Oct-2009 Chosun Ilbo
Chile has asked for a revision of the Korea-Chile free trade agreement, the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Sunday. Chile wants Korea to open its agricultural market wider.
Asia-Pacific businesses losing interest in Doha
19-Oct-2009 Business World
Businesses are becoming less interested in the World Trade Organization’s attempts to forge a global deal as long-standing talks have yet to yield results, a private sector group affiliated with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation warned late last week.
EU trade talks stuck on butter
19-Oct-2009 Globe & Mail
As 200 officials from Europe and Canada gather in an Ottawa meeting room Monday to begin the most comprehensive trade talks in Canadian history, there is great fear on both sides that the whole thing could become bogged down over the price of butter.
EU-India’s free trade deal is still in the talking stage
19-Oct-2009 New Europe
Two years after the European Union and India began negotiating a Free Trade Agreement that has enemies in both places, the talks are continuing with the hope of concluding by the end of the year, but not in time for the EU-India Summit in New Delhi on Nov. 6.
Pakistan and EU to explore possibility of FTA: talks begin on October 20
18-Oct-2009 Business Recorder
Islamabad and the 27-member European Union will start negotiations on a possible free trade agreement, an unfulfilled dream of Pakistan, with a meeting on 20 October.
ALBA strengthens trade alliance, ratifies struggle against the “empire”
18-Oct-2009 LAHT
The 7th Summit of the ALBA approved new steps for strengthening its model of “just and complementary trade” and ratified its struggle against “threats from the empire”
Chavez-led bloc plans to create agriculture, mining businesses
18-Oct-2009 Bloomberg
The Alba trade bloc, led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, agreed to create regional mining and agriculture businesses as the group concluded a second day of talks in Bolivia.
US aims for bilateral climate change deals with China and India
17-Oct-2009 Guardian
Many observers say such bilateral deals risk seriously weakening any Copenhagen agreement by allowing the idea of a global limit on greenhouse gas emissions to be abandoned.