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Wanted: answers on TPP impact
11-Jan-2013    
This will be a big year for Japan in trade talks. Expanding trade is important for the Japanese economy because Japan lacks natural resources. In conducting trade talks, Japan must (1) try to find agreements beneficial to all negotiating partners while (2) protecting national interests, especially by preventing trade agreements from tearing up communities and from undermining the social policy fabric that Japan has painstakingly established over many decades.
Firm makes history after suing Mauritius in Comesa Court of Justice
11-Jan-2013    
Kenyan firms — regardless of their size — can now sue the government in the Common Market for Southern Africa (Comesa) Court of Justice, the highest in the intergovernmental organisation, if its actions break rules of the trading bloc.
Free trade should follow fair elections
11-Jan-2013    
Should Australia be signing up, and giving the gift of a Free Trade Agreement with countries that are manifestly undemocratic and authoritarian?
First Nations seek to hold up ratification of Canada-China foreign investment treaty
11-Jan-2013     Toronto Star
First Nations groups have added their voices to opposition to Canada’s planned foreign investment agreement with China, notifying the Harper government they are going to court in an attempt to hold up ratification of the controversial treaty.
Thailand to sign FTA with Pakistan
11-Jan-2013     Pakistan Today
Thailand has expressed its intention to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Pakistan to further promote trade and economic relations between the two countries.
Red Electrica seeks arbitration over Bolivia nationalisation
10-Jan-2013    
Spanish power grid operator Red Electrica said on Tuesday it had begun to seek World Bank arbitration over Bolivia's expropriation of its transmission business TDE.
India, Mauritius to meet next month to review tax treaty
10-Jan-2013     PTI
India and Mauritius will meet next month in the capital to review the bilateral Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC) which seeks to prevent misuse of the provisions of the near three-decade old treaty.
Call for speedy signing of India-EU FTA
10-Jan-2013     IANS
Leading industrialists and members of government have gathered in New Delhi in a move to speed up signing of the free trade agreement between India and European Union (EU).
Europe not interested in FTA, PTA with Pakistan
10-Jan-2013     The News
Several European countries have declined Pakistan’s offer for signing a free trade agreement (FTA) or preferential trade agreement (PTA) with them as Pakistan will not agree to their demand of opening the auto sector and government procurement under the said agreements.
Transatlantic trade talks near lift-off
10-Jan-2013     Ip-health
Like putting an astronaut on Mars, a US-EU bilateral transatlantic trade deal has been a long-held dream of policy makers that seemed always out of reach. Yet Brussels and Washington are edging closer to the launch pad.