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New steel policy in India on docket as FTA pressure builds
20-Sep-2012     Metal Miner
While India's steel sector debates the finer points in the draft of a new steel policy, the cry to delete steel from the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and countries like Japan and Korea just got shriller.
Hamas appeals to Egypt over closure of smuggling tunnels
20-Sep-2012     Reuters
Egypt's crackdown on smuggling tunnels along its border with the Gaza Strip is making shortages ever tighter. Hamas officials asked Egypt late on Monday to consider alternative trade routes, such as a free trade zone, a direct deal that could boost Hamas tax revenues and circumvent rival Fatah's and Israel's control of official imports to Gaza.
The European Parliament is rewarding Israel's human rights violations
19-Sep-2012     Huffington Post
On 18 September 2012, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) passed the Protocol on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) by a slim margin.
En mon nom, ne le ratifiez pas!
19-Sep-2012     FTA-EU-LatinAmerica
Signe et envoie une lettre à tes député(e)s européen(ne)s pour exprimer ton refus face à la ratification des Accords de Libre Echange et des Accords d΄Association entre l΄Union européenne et la Colombie, le Pérou et l΄Amérique centrale.
In my name, don't ratify!
19-Sep-2012     FTA-EU-LatinAmerica
Sign and send a letter to your MEPs to reject the ratification of the Free Trade Agreements and Association Agreements between the European Union and Colombia, Perú and Central America.
Sri Lanka to be home to exclusive auto SEZ for Indian companies
17-Sep-2012     Business Standard
The development assumes importance as Sri Lanka did not show positive response to India's offer to expand FTA between two countries to Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
Barroso says EU, Moldova may sign association agreement by September 2013
17-Sep-2012     Kyiv Post
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso believes Moldova and the EU could sign an association agreement within a year, before an Eastern Partnership summit scheduled for September 2013, the Moldovan government reported citing Barroso as saying in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Vlad Filat.
MoF opposes FTA deal with Malaysia
17-Sep-2012     Financial Express
Bangladesh's Ministry of Finance has opposed the move of striking an agreement on bilateral Free Trade Area with Malaysia fearing the proposed deal, if signed, would only increase the trade deficit for Bangladesh.
DTI spreads awareness of free trade agreements to increase their usage
16-Sep-2012    
The Department of Trade and Industry has intensified its information campaign about the country's free trade agreements in a bid to increase their utilization rate this year.
European chamber to release study on potential EU-Taiwan trade pact
16-Sep-2012    
A study on a potential trade agreement between the European Union and Taiwan will be released on Sept. 20 in Taipei, according to the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT).