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EU-Thailand FTA negotiations: What fate for access to medicines?
6-Mar-2013    
Health Action International Europe, Oxfam and Action against AIDS Germany have serious concerns over the repercussions the EU-Thailand FTA will have on access to medicines in Thailand and the region.
As clock ticks toward Trans-Pacific trade pact deadline, US must end stall tactics on access to medicines
5-Mar-2013     MSF
As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières calls on the US government to end its stall tactics and revise its proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries.
A Japan–EU free trade deal?
5-Mar-2013     The Diplomat
Amid talk of a super, transatlantic free trade zone, the eurozone now has a new potential partner: Japan. But, in light of Tokyo’s slow progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), can the Abe government match competitor South Korea in inking a trade pact with Brussels?
Local firms reel under free trade deals
4-Mar-2013     Jakarta Post
Indonesian firms cannot compete with lower prices offered by foreign rivals in their home market.
Thai civic groups warn against pact with EU
4-Mar-2013     Bangkok Post
About 1,500 members of the groups under the umbrella network of FTA Watch gathered outside Government House yesterday to voice their concerns.
EU-Morocco: Barroso launches talks for free trade agreement
3-Mar-2013     ANSAmed
European Commission president José Manuel Barroso was in Rabat on Friday to launch talks for an EU-Morocco free trade agreement. The decision may end up as a major headache for Brussels, however, as the issue of relations with Morocco is a highly sensitive one within some Member States and the European Parliament itself, where the rights of the Saharawi people of the Western Sahara are defended.
Canada worries about US-EU free trade
2-Mar-2013     BBC
Some experts in Ottawa think that the launch of EU-US trade negotiations could derail the EU-Canada talks
Australian-US alliance a factor in Chinese investment decisions
1-Mar-2013     ABC
The growing size and value of China's investments in Australia makes the case for a bilateral investment treaty increasingly urgent, according to a leading China expert.
EU trade talks offer poor deal
1-Mar-2013     Bangkok Post
Should we trade poor people's lives with trade benefits for agro-industry corporations? This question has been posed by civic groups to the Yingluck Shinawatra government concerning the FTA negotiations between Thailand and the EU. It is not the only question that needs to be answered, however.
Panama and Colombia to restart FTA talks
1-Mar-2013     Newsroom Panama
Panama and Colombia are about to restart talks on a free trade agreement From March 11-15 the sixth round of negotiations will take place In Medellin, Colombia.