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Obama export plan includes trade deals - Geithner
4-Feb-2010 Reuters
President Barack Obama’s plan to double US exports over five years includes passing free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea that have been delayed for years, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday.
Viet Nam, EU progress in co-operation negotiations
4-Feb-2010 Viet Nam News
Viet Nam and the European Union have fully agreed on two-thirds of the articles after the sixth round of negotiations on the Partnership and Co-operation Agreement, according to head of the European Commission Delegation in Viet Nam Sean Doyle.
Wheat Board eager for Canada-Morocco trade deal
4-Feb-2010 Reuters
US farmers will gain duty-free access for their grain in 2016 because of the US-Morocco free-trade deal. "Canadian farmers really need a similar deal to level the playing field," says the Canadian Wheat Board.
Canada-EU free trade talks will be long and bumpy
4-Feb-2010 Troy Media
But a new wrinkle was added to the negotiations with the final signing of the Lisbon treaty in 2009. Under the treaty, it is now the European Parliament which must approve the final agreement.
Manila government unprepared for tuna ban
3-Feb-2010 UPI Asia
The tuna ban is not meant to preserve tuna stocks in West and Central Pacific, but to dislodge fishing companies from Third World countries from their tuna fishing grounds and allow the tuna fleets of the European Union and Japan to take over these tuna-rich fishing areas.
Trans-Pacific pact will provide better results, says AMCHAM
3-Feb-2010 Business Times
US businesses in Malaysia said a broader trade pact like the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement will provide better results than the stalled US-Malaysia free trade agreement (FTA) talks.
EU FTA quest to test political will
3-Feb-2010 Japan Times
The government under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has never hidden its strong desire to launch free-trade talks with the EU.
A year after implementation of FTA, US and Peru left with broken promises, no new trade model
3-Feb-2010 Public Citizen
Environmental and labor conditions in Peru have deteriorated rapidly since the congressional passage of the FTA in late 2007 and implementation in early 2009.
New TPP trade agreement a framework for the future
2-Feb-2010 CTC
US faith, labor, family farm, consumer, environmental, human rights and social justice organizations within Citizens Trade Campaign wrote Obama urging him to enact meaningful trade reform as his administration enters into negotiations for a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPP).
Reopening of trade negotiations between the EU and Central America within sight
2-Feb-2010 Europa.eu
The elections and investiture of Porfirio Lobo as President of Honduras have cleared the way for the EU to restore normal relations with the Central American country and negotiations for signing a bi-regional Association Agreement may soon resume.
NZ begins talks for free trade deal with India
1-Feb-2010 NZ Herald
India and New Zealand have begun negotiations for a free trade agreement which Trade Minister Tim Groser says will put New Zealand in a prime place to benefit from India’s economic growth.
Free trade and the role of financial globalization
1-Feb-2010 Jakarta Post
The debate on the ASEAN-China FTA has somehow ignored the importance of financial globalization.
ECFA advice for mainland China
1-Feb-2010 Taiwan Today
The Beijing establishment should ask itself: If the US beef controversy was able to cause such a huge ruckus in Taiwan, how much more horrendous would the situation be if hundreds of mainland agricultural goods were allowed entry?
Singapore, Costa Rica conclude free trade negotiations
30-Jan-2010 Inside Costa Rica
The agreement eliminates tariffs, liberalises trade in services and gives new protection to investors.
Obama urged to move on Latin FTAs
29-Jan-2010 LBC
Latin America business leaders and experts are urging President Barack Obama to ask Congress to ratify pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama after his State of the Union speech Wednesday pledged to strengthen ties with those countries.
Indonesians protest government’s first 100 days
29-Jan-2010 AFP
"We reject the ASEAN-China FTA. We’ll lose our jobs, we can’t compete with cheap Chinese products," rally coordinator Agus Supriyanto said.
CP Chairman upbeat over China’s market, Sino-Thai cooperation under FTA
29-Jan-2010 Xinhua
Dhanin Chearavanont, chairman of the Thailand’s conglomerate Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, saya Thailand is gaining more from the FTA than China.
ACFTA worsens unemployment: INDEF
29-Jan-2010 Jakarta Post
Around 1 million Indonesians might lose their job because of ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement
Stubb proposes free trade agreement and “marriage council” for EU and USA
29-Jan-2010 Helsingin Sanomat
Finland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Stubb has proposed a common free trade zone for the European Union and the United States and a kind of marriage counselling for the two.
Shall we protest?
27-Jan-2010 BSS
Documentary film about the Chotbul (« candlelight ») political rallies that paralysed the city of Seoul from May to August 2008. The film explains with great insight and passion how a small online forum of fashion victims called the SoulDresser managed to bring 1 million citizens in the streets to protest against the South Korea/US FTA (free trade agreements).