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Free trade plans with China announced
3-May-2012    
On May 2, South Korea and China formally announced the beginning of negotiations toward a bilateral free trade agreement.
Agriculture at risk under FTA with China
3-May-2012    
Major concerns about a potential South Korea-China free trade agreement are already being voiced by the agriculture community and small manufacturers.
Argentina: Towards a possible new withdrawal from ICSID?
2-May-2012    
As long as States, like Argentina and many others, accumulate a large amount of cases against them or obtain sistematically wrong results before ICSID arbitrators -- which is the rule, with a very few exceptions -- it is possible that the list of ICSID withdrawals will increase in the Americas.
Treaties that gave away the store
1-May-2012     The Hindu
As India grapples with the Vodafone and 2G fallout, the Bilateral Investment Treaties it signed a few years ago are coming back to haunt it.
Supreme Court recommends renegotiation of ISD clause
30-Apr-2012     The Hankyoreh
Controversial KORUS FTA clause could lead to ‘legal chaos’, says Korea's top legal body
Iran, Syria set to implement free trade agreement
29-Apr-2012     Eurasia Review
Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine and Commerce Mehdi Ghazanfari says the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Islamic Republic and Syria is set to be implemented, according to Press TV.
Canada: The real cost of free trade
28-Apr-2012     Operation Maple
EU and Asean confirm objective of free trade agreement
27-Apr-2012     The Nation
Foreign Ministers of the EuropeanUnion and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) re-stated their commitment Friday to an eventual free trade agreement between the two economic zones.
Blasting ‘weak-kneed’ skeptics, Tories fan out to plug EU trade deal
27-Apr-2012     Globe and Mail
The Harper government’s PR machine will be working overtime Friday as 40 per cent of the Conservative Canadian cabinet fans out across the country to shore up support for a free trade deal with the European Union.
Treaties that gave away the store
27-Apr-2012    
As India grapples with the Vodafone and 2G fallout, the Bilateral Investment Treaties it signed a few years ago are coming back to haunt it.