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Despite all, Mercosur is “working normally”, says Paraguayan foreign minister
25-Apr-2014    
Paraguay's foreign minister Eladio Loizaga said that there is no date for the several times suspended Mercosur summit, but a technical meeting is scheduled for next week in Montevideo when the issue, among others will be addressed. Nevertheless he insisted that the different bodies of Mercosur “are working normally”.
Indonesia latest emerging market to reject investment treaties
25-Apr-2014     Global Risk Insights
With Indonesia and a growing crowd of both emerging and developed sovereigns gradually changing the calculus of investment protection, investors may have to engage in an across-the-board rethinking of their FDI strategy.
Malaysia hopeful TPPA will shape up as broad-based FTA in Asia Pacific
25-Apr-2014    
Malaysia is hopeful that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will shape up as a broad-based free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region with the eventual outcome of the negotiations taking into account its interests and concerns.
'Certainty' will be agenda with India's new govt: US industry
25-Apr-2014     PTI
The US business lobby has said it wants "predictability, certainty and transparency" in India's economic and trade policies, and this would be its agenda with the new government to be formed after the poll results of the Lok Sabha elections.
How the revolving door lets Hollywood shape Obama's trade agenda
25-Apr-2014     Vox
The revolving door between industry groups and the Obama administration's trade shop has been busy lately.
So far, so SOPA: Web campaigners to protest world's biggest ever free trade deal
25-Apr-2014     The Register
Internet activists are planning a major on- and offline protest at what has been described as a "secretive, SOPA-like" agreement being hammered out as the world's largest economies attempt to agree the world's biggest ever free trade deal.
Pas d'accord commercial USA-Japon, mais un soutien réaffirmé
25-Apr-2014     Reuters
La visite de Barack Obama au Japon, qui s'achevait vendredi, n'a pas permis d'aboutir à la conclusion d'un accord commercial entre Washington et Tokyo mais a été marquée par la réaffirmation du soutien américain face aux ambitions chinoises.
A practical look at the 2013 Myanmar-Japan bilateral investment treaty
25-Apr-2014     VDB Loi
On 25 December 2013, Japan and Myanmar signed their first bilateral investment treaty.
Protest likely on April 28, says Colombian farmer leader
25-Apr-2014     Prensa Latina
Colombian farmer leader César Pachón, a representative of the group Dignidad Papera, said that the movement may take to the roads to protest on April 20 against the delay in goverment compliance with agreements with the sector.
Colombia: Where dockers sell their paycheques for loans
24-Apr-2014     Equal Times
The conditions of Buenaventura’s longshore workers, and the harsh reprisals against them for trying to form unions, dramatically illustrate the failure of Colombia’s Labor Action Plan.