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EU-US FTA (TTIP) - EU negotiating mandate (draft Mar 2013)
29-Mar-2013     S2B Network
On 13 March 2013, the EU Commission adopted a recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations on a comprehensive trade and investment agreement, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, between the EU and the US
Long line for big free-trade club
29-Mar-2013     China Daily
What is behind the current eagerness to sign free-trade agreements considering that the European Union and the United States also have their own behemoth in sight and what does China have to gain or lose from them?
India-EU FTA may be in jeopardy if April 15 meeting fails
29-Mar-2013     CNBC
The future of the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and EU will now depend on a meeting between commerce minister Anand Sharma and EU trade commissioner Karl De Gucht at Brussels on April 15.
Closing free talks with deal to be harder than opening negotiations for SKorea, China, Japan
29-Mar-2013     AP
Progress toward a free trade zone that would be the world's third largest could easily be interrupted by any flare-up in political tensions.
Final Push for a Canada-EU CETA and the Coming NAFTA-EU Free Trade Zone
29-Mar-2013     Be Your Own Leader
Just like any of the other so-called next-generation trade and investment deals, CETA is based on the failed NAFTA model with the same false promises. These secretive and binding international agreements are not really about trade, but are in fact designed to reshape regulatory and policy frameworks to further increase the rights of corporations and investors.
EU-India FTA - IP chapter text (draft, date unknown)
29-Mar-2013     KEI
Negotiating text on intellectual property for the EU-India FTA. It does not include Article 6 (patents) or have any text for Article 9 (GIs). Date unknown.
Moldova can sign free trade agreement with EU in no less than year
28-Mar-2013    
An agreement on Moldova's admission to a free trade zone with the European Union (DCFTA) will be signed no sooner than a year's time, Moldova's Economy Minister Valeriu Lazar said at a Wednesday press conference.
New hospital in Shenzhen fails to impress Cepa critics
27-Mar-2013    
Critics of Hong Kong's free-trade deal with the mainland maintained their reservations about the scheme as the first wholly Hong Kong-owned hospital in Shenzhen opened yesterday.
India-SACU PTA talks likely to conclude this year
27-Mar-2013    
India and South African nations are expected to conclude a preferential trade agreement by the end of this year, aimed at reducing tariffs on certain items traded between the two sides.
Indian pharma sector fears India-European Union FTA could imperil local industry
27-Mar-2013    
Drugmakers and healthcare activists are worried that the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is in the works, may contain a provision that could imperil local industry and have urged the government to keep patent infringement issues out of FTAs.