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Bilateral agreements easy to negotiate’
21-Mar-2013    
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) could be successful if bilateral agreements between the member countries complement them.
President pledges to create conditions for Taiwan's TPP access
21-Mar-2013    
President Ma Ying-jeou said Thursday that his government will work hard to create the conditions for Taiwan to participate in the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership at an appropriate time.
European Union-India FTA may hit generic medical industry
21-Mar-2013    
The free trade agreement that European Union is pushing India to sign could put an end to India's status as the pharmacy of the developing providing affordable medicines, especially HIV drugs to countries like Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and several others. The negotiations with EU are on at a feverish pace this week in Brussels even before the parliamentary standing committee looking into the free trade agreements (FTAs) has submitted its report.
Blanco: Free trade agreements are rendering WTO rules obsolete
21-Mar-2013     This Day
Dr. Herminio Blanco, the Mexican Candidate for the position of the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, says the rules being negotiated in the WTO are becoming obsolete when compared to free trade agreements negotiated all over the world.
Panama-Colombia free trade talks stall
21-Mar-2013     Newsroom Panama
The sixth round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement between Panama and Colombia in Medellin, closed in Medellin last Friday without any agreement being reached.
US says trade talks are ajar for China
21-Mar-2013     China Daily
The United States remains open to including China in a Pacific free-trade zone, Washington's top trade official said less than a week after Japan asked to join the negotiations.
US hoping South Korea will join trans-pacific partnership
21-Mar-2013     Hankyoreh
To counter China, US is seeking to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, and wants SK as a partner
EU-Vietnam weigh FTA
21-Mar-2013     Asia Times Online
While both sides agree an FTA would on the whole be mutually beneficial, negotiations will likely be complicated by the potential socio-economic impacts a pact would have on Vietnam's fragile transitional economy.
CALL TO ACTION! Deal a decisive blow to Neoliberalism - End the WTO and Stop the new wave of Free Trade Agreements - The time is now for Economic Justice!
21-Mar-2013    
The Indonesian People's Movement Against Neocolonialism-Imperialism (Gerak Lawan) would like to work hand in hand with other movements in Asia and around the world, to dismantle the ongoing efforts to revive the WTO in the upcoming Ministerial meeting to be held in Bali, Indonesia on 3-6 December 2013.
EU roadmap for Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
21-Mar-2013     EU
Indicative roadmap prepared by the European Commission for the EU-US FTA negotiations