6-Apr-2012
Prices of certain imports from Europe and the U.S. have remained the same despite tariff cuts from free trade agreements with both economic blocs, the Fair Trade Commission in Seoul said Thursday.
6-Apr-2012
India plans to abolish the investor-state dispute system and renegotiate FTAs with South Korea, Singapore, and other countries, an Indian newspaper reported.
6-Apr-2012
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday said the government will complete negotiations on the cross-strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China in the next two years, as well as deepen economic and trade relations with other countries to raise the nation’s economic competitiveness.
5-Apr-2012
China Daily
Compared to ten years ago, China is now better prepared to initiate talks with the US on establishing an FTA, and accelerating the implementation of the FTA is an important part of its further opening-up policy. Furthermore, it is one of the strategic tasks of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15).
5-Apr-2012
Japan Times
The so-called scoping exercise, aimed at identifying matters of mutual concern and interest related to a free-trade agreement, will conclude "probably in weeks," Arianespace Chairman Jean-Yves Le Gall said at a news conference in Tokyo following a two-day meeting of the EU-Japan Business Round Table.
4-Apr-2012
Reuters
China is eager to begin talks on a free trade pact with the United States and key leaders seem willing to step away from the state capitalism Beijing has been pursuing, a senior U.S. executive with access to China's leadership said on Tuesday.
4-Apr-2012
Tax News
Negotiating at a regional level rather than on a country by country basis is still the EU's preferred option in the long-term
3-Apr-2012
The News
The draft of the Pak-US Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) has been sent to the Pakistani cabinet for approval, official sources told The News on Monday.
2-Apr-2012
Mondaq
On February 8, 2012, Canada and China signed a Declaration of Intent, signalling that the substantive negotiations between them on a bilateral investment treaty have come to a close. What do we know about this treaty?
2-Apr-2012
Bernama
"We would probably have made decision by June whether we should proceed or review the proposed FTA," Malaysia's trade minister said after meeting the EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht on the sideline of the Asean-EU Business Summit, in Phnom Penh.
