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EU angry as investment policy levels playing field
13-Nov-2013     Business Report
Is there something the EU trade guys know that they’re not telling the rest of us? Have they got wind of a dastardly ANC plan to expropriate all European-owned assets in South Africa?
EU-Thailand partnership signed
13-Nov-2013     Bangkok Post
The European Union and Thailand have finalised the text of a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), according to a press statement from the EU office in Bangkok.
Militarization and the Trans-Pacific “strategic economic” Partnership
13-Nov-2013     Global Research
The TPP has been mostly framed as a secret free-trade agreement but it has in large part taken the form of a policy initiative called the Pacific Pivot, a shifting of military resources into the Pacific.
Ukrainian chances of clinching EU deal begin to fade
13-Nov-2013     AFP
Ukraine's union of industrialists and businessmen late Tuesday called on President Yanukovych to delay the signing of the deal by one year, saying it was damaging trade relations with Russia and Kazakhstan.
Harper moves to give up more Canadian sovereignty
12-Nov-2013    
Tthe Harper government recently committed Canada to ratify the ICSID Convention.
No assurance on MFN from Pak
12-Nov-2013    
No assurance was given by the Pakistan government on Tuesday for granting India the Most Favoured Nation trade status, almost a year after it missed the deadline to do so in order to normalise bilateral trading relations.
Free trade agreements are a concern for local industry: Poll
12-Nov-2013    
Australian industry is concerned about the impact of FTAs which the government is attempting to forge with China, South Korea and Japan.
India's imports gained while exports grew negligibly from FTAs: ASSOCHAM study
12-Nov-2013    
After signing 15 regional and bilateral free trade agreements, India's exports to these partner countries either stagnated or registered minimal growth, according to a study by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India.
Putin expects Vietnam and CU to conclude agreement on FTA
11-Nov-2013    
Russian President Vladimir Putin set a task of doubling goods turnover in trade with Vietnam within six years. This was stated by the Russian Head of State in an article published by Vietnamese media on Monday ahead of Putin's visit to Hanoi on November 12.
The Efta court clashes with Norway’s Supreme Court
10-Nov-2013    
Norway’s Supreme Court was wrong to rule that companies posting workers to the Norwegian shipbuilding industry must pay their travel, board and lodging expenses, argues the Efta Court’s President in a general attack on the Supreme Court. He accuses it of being disloyal to the EEA agreement and indicates the last word may still not been had.