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  • 1-Mar-2009 Op-ed News
    Majority oppose Chapter 11 of NAFTA
    A recent binational poll commissioned by the Council of Canadians, found that the majority of Americans and Canadians oppose provisions found in Chapter 11 of NAFTA.
  • 1-Mar-2009 Jamaica Observer
    Jagdeo calls for freeze on EPA in light of global crisis
    Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo believes there should be a delay in implementing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) trade deal with Europe because of challenges created by the global financial crisis.
  • 1-Mar-2009 EABW
    EAC seeks trade in services with EU
    Business leaders from East Africa have commenced discussions on how best the five member states of East Africa can export services to European markets under the current Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations.
  • 1-Mar-2009 Dow Jones
    Thailand, Indonesia to sign fishery, food, auto pact by 1st half
    Commerce ministers of Thailand and Indonesia on Saturday agreed to launch a bilateral trade agreement on economic cooperation
  • 1-Mar-2009 Al Jazeera
    Trade deal signed at ASEAN summit
    Australia and New Zealand have signed a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — one of Asia’s largest trade arrangements.
  • 28-Feb-2009 Blacklisted News
    Deeper North American Integration Still in the Cards
    There are fears that under an Obama presidency many on the left will go to sleep, now that Bush is out of office. This includes in Canada, where the left have been instrumental in exposing the SPP and fighting deeper integration into a North American Union.
  • 28-Feb-2009 Opednews.com
    Farmers Call For NAFTA Reforms
    NAFTA has produced winners, mostly multinational corporations and a long list of losers, which includes farmers. The trade agreement has been the source of much discontent and has become an easy target.
  • 27-Feb-2009 IHT
    ASEAN to sign trade pact with Australia, NZ
    Southeast Asian economic ministers signed two pacts on trade and investment Thursday and plan to ink a free trade pact with Australia and New Zealand at an annual summit, where they have vowed to resist protectionism amid the global economic slump.
  • 26-Feb-2009
    MNCs Outside Asean Gaining More From Liberalisation
    Multinational corporations (MNCs) from outside Asean are taking better advantage of the region’s trade and investment liberalisation than the companies from within, Secretary General of Asean, Dr Surin Pitsuwan said.
  • 26-Feb-2009
    Sino-Pak Insurance business can flourish after signing of FTA in Services Sector
    China Thursday hoped to see substantial progress for cooperation between Pakistan and China in the area of Insurance.
  • 26-Feb-2009 ASEAN
    ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (February 2009)
  • 26-Feb-2009 Reuters
    Indonesia details Australia, New Zealand tariff cuts
    Indonesia has agreed to cut import tariffs on range of products from Australia and New Zealand starting this year as part of a wider free-trade agreement with Southeast Asian nations
  • 26-Feb-2009 NUPGE
    Canada-Colombia free trade agreement condemned
    Colombia’s national labour federations and major unions have condemned the free trade agreement (FTA) signed by the governments of Canada and Colombia last year.
  • 26-Feb-2009 AFP
    SKorea lawmakers endorse US FTA bill
    The judiciary subcommittee of South Korea’s parliament Wednesday endorsed a government bill to ratify a free trade pact with the United States. The bill still requires approval by the subcommittees for foreign affairs, trade and unification, before it is submitted to a plenary session of the National Assembly for ratification.
  • 26-Feb-2009 Taipei Times
    Activists demand referendum on CECA proposal
    Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan representative Tsay Ting-kuei said that if Taiwan signs a CECA under the “one China” principle, the agreement would symbolize Taiwan’s surrender to China.
  • 25-Feb-2009 RMR
    FTA: The new Andean disease
    The Free Trade Agreement or the Association Agreement the European Union is promoting with two of the four countries member of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) risks the continuity of this bloc, but it also represents a threat to access to medications and health of the Andean peoples.
  • 25-Feb-2009 Business Standard
    UPA’s FTA success rate 1 out of 15
    India’s United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, which initiated talks on about 15 free trade agreements (FTAs), could sign only one of them during its current tenure.
  • 25-Feb-2009 Houston Chronicle
    Unions back bill trying to stop Mexican trucks in US
    Union officials were confident Tuesday that new legislation in Congress would halt Mexican trucks from making long-haul trips into the United States ending a pilot program backed by the Bush administration as part of NAFTA
  • 25-Feb-2009 JoongAng Daily
    Prospects for ratification of Korea-US FTA shrouded in doubt
    More than a year and a half since Korea and the United States signed a free trade agreement, the deal is still pending. Now attention is focusing on whether the two countries’ legislatures can approve the agreement to mark the one-year anniversary of Korea’s Lee Myung-bak administration and the launch of the new Barack Obama administration in the US.
  • 25-Feb-2009 Ground Reality
    FTAs facilitates biopiracy: The case of Peru
    The United States has done it, and done it again. As part of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Peru, the US has managed to wrest an amendment in the existing Intellectual Property laws that virtually ’facilitates biopiracy and hamper Peru’s position as a protector of traditional knowledge,’ reports SciDev.net