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'Steel should be excluded from FTA ambit with Japan, Korea'
7-Feb-2013    
Steel products should be excluded from the ambit of FTA with Japan and Korea as these countries are flooding the Indian market, taking advantage of concessional duty rates at the cost of domestic firms, industry body Assocham said today.
India should review FTAs to boost farm exports: CACP chief
6-Feb-2013    
India should review Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that it has entered into with ASEAN, Japan and Korea to boost farm exports, according to a discussion paper co-authored by CACP chief Ashok Gulati.
FTA with South Korea is ‘a car bomb’ for Colombia’s industrial sector: Senator
6-Feb-2013    
One of the most popular and outspoken Colombian senators on Tuesday rebuked the pending free trade agreement (FTA) between Colombia and South Korea on the grounds that it undermines industrial potential.
Canadian seafood industry eyes UK market as free trade deal moves closer
6-Feb-2013    
The European Union and Canada are close to signing a free trade agreement which will almost certainly open the way for more Canadian fish and seafood imports into Britain.
Thailand to go ahead with Thai-EU FTA
6-Feb-2013     Pattaya Mail
The Thai parliament has given a green light to the government to continue talks on the Thai-EU Free Trade Agreement aimed at increasing Thailand’s competitiveness in trade and investment in the EU market.
The future of AGOA and US-Africa trade
6-Feb-2013     The Africa Report
At a time when the US was struggling to stay on its two feet in the heat of a looming economic meltdown in 2008, were hopes of better trade deals with Africa unrealistic when President Barack Obama was elected into office?
Excessive corporate rights in Canada-EU trade deal are unacceptable to broad section of European, Canadian and Quebec society
6-Feb-2013     Market Wire
Labour, environmental, Indigenous, women's, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations from Europe, Canada and Quebec representing more than 65 million people are demanding that Canada and the EU stop negotiating an excessive and controversial investor rights chapter in the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
EU and Canada to continue free-trade negotiations in Ottawa
5-Feb-2013    
The Canadian government is prepared to knock holes in the hefty tariff walls shielding dairy producers from foreign competition and admit more European cheese into this country in return for greater access to EU markets for Canada’s beef and pork.
Reko Diq: the other side
5-Feb-2013    
Earlier last month, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry declared null and void the Reko Diq gold and copper mine agreement, the Chagai Hills Exploration Joint Venture Agreement (CHEJVA), with Tethyan Copper Company (TCC).
The Reko Diq Saga
5-Feb-2013    
The Supreme Court recently declared void and illegal a mining deal for the Reko Diq copper project signed 20 years ago between the Balochistan government and international mining companies.