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Meeting vital to meet minsters deadline
24-Aug-2012    
Pacific-African, Caribbean and Pacific (PACP) trade officials and ministers met in Nuku'alofa, Tonga earlier this month to discuss key issues, which included the Management of PACP Group, Fiji's participation in the PACP and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations with the EU.
Cut wages, sign FTAs, says pro-industry forum
24-Aug-2012    
Industrial heavyweights yesterday urged the government to speed up the signing of free-trade agreements with major trading partners and take concrete steps to make the nation more business-friendly.
Indonesia seeks trade, but not free trade
24-Aug-2012    
Indonesia is eager to boost trade with Canada, but the South Asian country isn't interested in two of the Harper government's top priorities -- pursuing a free-trade deal or buying Alberta oilsands crude.
InCACBI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement
24-Aug-2012     India Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI)
We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
Sri Lanka not keen on CEPA with India
24-Aug-2012    
Sri Lanka has apparently informed Indian authorities it was not keen on having a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India, as it feared granting more Indian access to its markets would destroy that country’s domestic industry. However, it has made its own set of fresh demands to consider under the Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is under operation since March 2000.
FTA Fund to aid development of fish products
23-Aug-2012    
Free Trade Agreement Fund officials are pursuing a plan to develop Thai fish products in local communities, as concern grows that the domestic market is facing an influx of cheaper fisheries produce from neighbouring countries under the Asean seamless market. The plan will focus on developing the procurement and processing of gourami, a freshwater fish currently farmed mainly in Chachoengsao province.
Icsid: Venezuela with the largest amount of ongoing complaints
22-Aug-2012    
Venezuela turned out to be the country with the highest number of complaints filed against it at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Icsid) of the World Bank, after four new complaints lodged in the days prior to its effective pullout of the body.
‘No doubts’ in Caribbean forging ahead with EPA says official
22-Aug-2012    
A top Caribbean Forum (Cariforum) executive wants to put to rest doubts that region will not be able to capitalise on the opportunities offered by the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed into effect between CARIFORUM and the European Union (EU) since 2008.
Lost trade with U.S. prompts Canada to seek other markets
22-Aug-2012    
Eleven years after the 9/11 debacle, the Canada-U.S. border linking the world's two most friendly countries remains a debilitating choke point.
OAE: Thailand still has upper hand in FTAs on farm products
22-Aug-2012    
The Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) has disclosed that Thailand this year still has an edge over its dialogue partners in the free trade agreements (FTAs) on agricultural products.