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TPP looking less attractive for NZ
27-May-2014    
Another ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) came and went last week in Singapore. No one here blinked. Trade Minister Tim Groser played it all very low key. No expectations meant no disappointment.
Billionaire Salim seeks sweet Philippine deals
26-May-2014     Bloomberg
Billionaire Anthoni Salim’s First Pacific Co. is seeking to buy sugar companies in the Philippines to expand its footprint in Southeast Asia and tap opportunities from a free-trade agreement in the region.
New environmentalists taking bold actions and it's working
26-May-2014     Dissident Voice
Through trade agreements, Big Energy is trying to weaken environmental protections and increase their power to subvert democracy but people are stopping these too.
De Gucht assures that TTIP will probably be a mixed agreement
26-May-2014     Agence Europe
European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht has said that the national parliaments of the 28 EU member states will “very likely” need to ratify the future EU-US free trade agreement that is currently being negotiated.
Chinese hacking in the US could damage Australia-China free trade prospects
26-May-2014    
Australian businesses may be wondering whether Chinese spies have compromised their databases as well as those of US businesses, write Philip Seltsikas and Max Soyref.
Canada-EU trade deal continues to be hampered by lengthy logistics
26-May-2014    
Cast your mind ahead five years. Most people probably can’t say with certainty what their lives will be like in 2019. In a worst-case scenario, it could take that long to put the much-hyped Canada-European Union free trade deal into place.
Call for TPP deal to liberalise beef trade
26-May-2014    
Some of the world's biggest beef producers are urging the countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations not to water down their ambitions for free agricultural trade.
Govt, COMESA act to boost AGOA exports
26-May-2014    
The Zambian government in collaboration with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has put in place a committee which will look at ways and means of increasing exports to the Africa Growth Opportunity Act market in the United States of America.
Steel should be kept out of FTA: Steel Ministry
26-May-2014    
Worried over growing imports from Japan and Korea with whom India has free trade pacts, Steel Ministry has suggested shipments from these nations be brought under negative list to safeguard the interest of local firms.
EU bans poultry exports from illegal Israeli settlements
24-May-2014     BDS Movement
Palestinian civil society has today welcomed reports that the EU will no longer allow poultry and eggs from illegal Israeli settlements to enter the EU, in what amounts to the first EU ban on any Israeli products.