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Taiwan trying to secure FTAs with U.S., EU: president
21-May-2013    
President Ma Ying-jeou has said that his administration has been working toward signing free trade deals with the United States and the European Union, a development that sock manufacturers in Changhua County are eager to see.
Kosovo looks to EU trade agreement
21-May-2013     Eurasia Review
By launching a free trade regime with the EU, as part of its Stabilisation Association Agreement, Kosovo is hoping to increase the amount of agricultural products that it exports to the 27 member countries in order to improve revenues.
Historic Indo-Lanka trade pact goes public for the first time
21-May-2013     Lanka Web
The first ever international Free Trade Agreement entered by Sri Lanka has boosted its exports to its partnering country by no less than 16 times-and overall trade volumes grew by eight fold.
Food and capitalism: a crisis of waste and destruction
21-May-2013     PSL
Capitalism and the racing pace of technology at the service of maximizing profits have come together to form a super-crisis of waste and destruction. We can use corn as an example
US livestock industry ready for 'comprehensive' FTA with EU
21-May-2013     Farm Futures
Coalition of ag organizations says previous talks through Trans-Pacific Partnership should be used as model for EU agreement
Turkey-South Korea FTA includes many firsts
21-May-2013     Hürriyet Daily News
A free trade agreement (FTA) between Turkey and South Korea that came into effect at the beginning of this month has registered a number of firsts for Turkey, which had exempted its agricultural goods from deals until the Seoul deal but is now aiming to use the new agreement as a template for future FTAs.
Despite lacking FTA, Japan to get US LNG
21-May-2013     Japan Times
The United States said Friday it will allow exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas to Japan and other countries to which it is not bound by free-trade agreements, authorizing a plan to deliver shale and other gases from Texas.
China willing to launch FTA talks with India: Li Keqiang
21-May-2013     Economic Times
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang today offered Indian goods more access to his country's market for narrowing bilateral trade deficit and expressed willingness to start talks for a free trade agreement with India.
Live from the TPP: IP chapter shows no sign of resolution, end of negotiation in 2013 highly unlikely
21-May-2013     Infojustice
There is a strong sense in the halls of the current TPP negotiation that the end is not in sight. And one of the primary reasons s a lack of consensus on intellectual property and pharmaceuticals issues, reports Infojustice from Lima.
Consumers International releases three new papers on the TPP for the Lima round
20-May-2013    
Consumers International (CI) has commissioned the production of three papers, the first on the competition chapter by one of our members, and the other two by independent experts, respectively covering the investment chapter and how it affects A2K, and the free flow of information provision and its impacts on privacy.