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Le prochain sommet UE-Japon, le 28 avril à Tokyo, ouvrira-t-il la voie à des négociations pour la conclusion d'un accord de libre-échange entre les deux parties?

US Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma signed a framework cooperation agreement on trade and investment on 17 March 2010

As informal talks have started between India and Europe on the free trade agreement (FTA) in New Delhi since Monday, apprehensions over provisions that could impact early access to generic medicines are being voiced in Thailand.

US Trade Representative Ron Kirk will travel to Egypt next week for talks with a key Arab ally that has long wanted a free trade agreement with the United States.

King Abdullah and the Brazilian president agreed to work intensively to wrap up talks towards the signing of a free trade agreement between Jordan and the Mercosur trade bloc, which comprises several Latin American countries, including Brazil.

ActionAid has lauded Ghana as it pledged its support to the nation for not signing the Economic Partnership Agreement, a trade partnership agreement between EU and African/Caribbean countries.

Korea's Ministry of Justice has recently proposed a revision of the commercial law provisions, including the introduction of a "poison pill," which is one of the common tools to enable local firms to defend themselves against hostile takeovers. How will this work in the context of Korea's FTAs?

The postponement is due to prolonged translation procedure by EU and does not mean changes in substance of pact or delay in implementation schedule (October 2010)

CENTAD, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, have come out recently with 4 reports on trade and gender. The first is a backgrounder (literature review) while the other three are on the gender impact of the EU-India FTA in the fields of agriculture, services and health.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign National Committee welcomes the long overdue ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union that Israeli products originating from Israel's colonial settlements built on Occupied Palestinian Territory do not qualify for preferential customs treatment under the EC-Israel trade agreement

A legislative committee meeting to hear a report on the government's proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China was postponed again after Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers dismissed the report as a “false front.”

A group of South Korean and U.S. lawmakers will launch a task force to expedite the ratification of the pending free trade deal, South Korean lawmakers said Wednesday.

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his Development, Industry and Foreign Trade minister Miguel Jorge announced in the Middle East that Brazil and Argentina have already agreed to negotiate a free trade agreement between the Mercosur and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

South Asia Agreement on Trade in Services among seven South Asian countries including Pakistan and India is expected to end by the end of 2010, official sources informed Daily Times on Monday.

The feasibility study on the Indo-Australian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will be finalised by April this year with both governments expected to begin negotiations soon, according to a top Australian official.

According to the OECD, there are 3000 bilateral and regional investment agreements in existence today yet a reluctance to enforce investor-state arbitral awards. OECD wants to draw up a "Model Investment Treaty" to harmonise things.

Syria said on Tuesday it will soon restart talks with the European Union on a stalled partnership agreement, but that its timing will depend on the flexibility shown to Damascus over certain points.

Surveys have consistently shown that most Australians consider the Free Trade Agreement the Howard government signed with the US in 2004 was a bad deal. So why would any Australian government want another trade deal with the US?

This investigatory report was conceptualized, researched, and written by a team of nine students at Georgetown University Law Center, in partnership with the student group Georgetown Human Rights Action and the Law Center's Human Rights Institute, to determine how the intellectual property provisions of the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) affect access to medicines in the Dominican Republic.

Negotiations for a free trade deal between the Southern African Customs Union and the US are not "dead and buried", a US Embassy official said yesterday.