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Need to assess costs and benefits of FTAs
28-Nov-2011    
Free trade agreements designed in a different era can prevent or hinder the policy measures developing countries need to address the growing global economic crisis, and deserve to be reviewed.
ÉTATS-UNIS-COLOMBIE - Clauses sociales : l’APC-TLC relance-t-il la discussion ?
28-Nov-2011     alterinfos
Ce texte a comme principal propos de s’interroger sur la possibilité que les clauses sociales et environnementales des traités de libre échange deviennent un instrument important de la protection des droits du travail et des droits environnementaux en Amérique latine.
Opposition parties launch anti-FTA campaign
28-Nov-2011     The Hankyoreh
South Korea’s five opposition parties will challenge the constitutionality of the KORUS FTA
India-EFTA IP chapter (draft, 2009)
28-Nov-2011     donttradeourlivesaway
South Koreans continue street potests against FTA
27-Nov-2011     VoA
At least 2,000 people gathered in South Korea's capital late Saturday to protest parliament's ratification of a free trade agreement with the United States.
Solo IEPA will destroy Ghanaian Businesses
26-Nov-2011    
Since the beginning of the year, the Trade and Industry Minister, Hon Hannah Tetteh has continued with her push for Ghana to sign and ratify the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (IEPA) that was initialled in 2007 to save small proportion of exporters whose main export destination is the European market.
EPA negotiations coming to a close, says EAC head
26-Nov-2011    
Experts from the East African Community secretariat will next month fly to Brussels Belgium for an audience with European Union officials to finalise the long-standing negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).
Korea`s next problem after FTA ratification: trade lawyers
26-Nov-2011    
Korea’s Office of the Minister for Trade recently attempted to recruit lawyers specializing in international trade before the effectuation of the free trade agreement with the European Union.
Call for an alternative investment model
26-Nov-2011     NJGI
If your organisation would like to join the call, please do so before 7 December
Judge under fire for post critical of FTA railroad
26-Nov-2011    
Controversy is expected following a Supreme Court decision to deliberate in its public officials' ethics committee over the appropriateness of a sitting associate judge’s Facebook post critical of the railroading of the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA).