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Europe opens new front against affordable medicines in trade deal with India
7-Apr-2011     MSF
As free trade agreement talks between Europe and India resume in Brussels today, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about new measures Europe is pushing to restrict the production of affordable generic medicines that MSF and others rely on to treat patients across the developing world.
Colombia is said to reach labor deal with US to advance trade agreement
7-Apr-2011     Bloomberg
Colombia and the US may announce a deal as soon as today on measures clearing the way for a stalled free-trade agreement, according to six people familiar with the talks.
Commission and New Delhi in fresh FTA push
7-Apr-2011     Europolitics
The outcome of this week's meetings will reveal whether India and the EU can clinch a historic free trade agreement by the summer, Europolitics understands.
Peru, Mexico sign trade deal
7-Apr-2011     EFE
Peru and Mexico on Wednesday here signed a trade agreement with the aim of jointly reaching out to Asia, an undertaking that they want Chile and Colombia to join.
Peru, Mexico move toward Latam trade integration
7-Apr-2011     Reuters
Mexico and Peru signed a trade agreement on Wednesday after five years of negotiation
The India-EU FTA and its implications on India’s food and farm sector
7-Apr-2011     Madhyam
This factsheet exposes the inherent dangers of the ‘free trade’ agenda pushed by corporate agribusiness under the aegis of India-EU FTA.
PM panel to review India-EU free trade pact on Wednesday
6-Apr-2011     PTI
The panel would also clear negotiations for India-Australia FTA and examine setting up a joint study group for a possible free trade pact between India and the Common Market For Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).
Canadian court finalizes Colombia free trade deal
6-Apr-2011     NAFB
Last week, Canada's Constitutional Court gave the go-ahead to place into effect a free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia. The agreement could take effect as soon as July 1.
Colombian minister in France to push EU trade deal
6-Apr-2011     Colombia Reports
Colombia's social protection minister has met with members of the European Parliament to explain his country's advances in human rights issues as it pertains to the pending free trade agreement between Colombia and the EU, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday.
Global Insider: Canada-Japan trade relations
6-Apr-2011     WPR
Canada and Japan announced in February that they were formally studying the possibility of concluding a bilateral free trade agreement. In an email interview, Carin Holroyd, a political science professor at the University of Waterloo, discussed economic relations between Canada and Japan.