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Korea, Vietnam agree to work more closely on FTA
26-Nov-2013    
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on November 24 that it held the fourth bilateral joint committee meeting with the Vietnamese government in Can Tho City. The conclusion of the free trade agreement between Korea and Vietnam is expected to speed up.
FTA talks with Seoul, Beijing start
26-Nov-2013    
Japan, China and South Korea began their third round of free trade talks in Tokyo on Tuesday, with a wide range of areas such as intellectual property and goods and services on the agenda.
Israel's argiculture seeds taking root in Vietnam
26-Nov-2013     Israel21C
An Israeli-Vietnamese agriculture research and development fund — and a free-trade agreement between the two countries — may be established soon, following a series of high-level visits.
Ticfa with US signed at last
26-Nov-2013     Daily Star
The government of Bangladesh, after more than a decade of talks, yesterday inked the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) with the US
Ill-fated India-EU FTA gets new demand from Belgium
26-Nov-2013     Business Standard
Belgium has demanded greater access to public procurement market for large-scale contracts under the proposed India-EU free trade agreement (FTA), whose fate already hangs in balance. The country also stressed on further tariff reduction on goods by India.
Trade unions oppose privileged rights for Big Business in EU-Canada trade deal
26-Nov-2013     4traders
The European Trade Union Confederation strongly opposes the inclusion of ISDS in CETA, and the subsequent creation of a parallel court system which allows multinationals to sue and threaten governments with heavy costs for doing their democratic job of regulating their societies and economies.
Possible FTA with EU raises fears for agriculture
26-Nov-2013     Business World
Further opening up the Philippine’s agriculture industry to competition with the European Union through a free trade agreement may put the sector at risk, according to the head of the non-government organization IBON Foundation, Inc.
More than 100 organizations sign transatlantic statement opposing dangerous investor "rights" chapter in CETA
26-Nov-2013     Council of Canadians
As European and Canadian trade officials meet again in Brussels today to continue negotiating an investment protection chapter in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), transatlantic civil society groups are demanding that this chapter be removed entirely as an affront to democracy, an attack on the independent judiciary, and a threat to climate change and our shared environment.
Access to medecines and the TPP: Open letter to the PM of Canada
26-Nov-2013     GTAG
Delivered by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Turkey: Not making eyes at the Eurasian Union -- for now
25-Nov-2013     Eurasianet
After 26 years of frustration over its start-and-stop bid to join the European Union, would Turkey ever consider joining a rival regional bloc led by the Kremlin? Few observers believe it likely, but it’s not completely out of the question.