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EU NZ trade talks 'premature'
21-Mar-2011     NZ Herald
Talks on a free trade agreement between the European Union and New Zealand would be premature at this point, says EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht.
More free trade agreements? When NAFTA failed?
21-Mar-2011     Huffington Post
With the Republicans and the Obama administration attempting to rush headlong into a new trade agreements with Korea, and possibly also with Panama and Colombia, it is incumbent on Americans to apply a bit of empiricism. How have our past trade agreements worked out? Above all, how's the grand-daddy of them all, NAFTA, doing?
Australia-Korea FTA on the way
21-Mar-2011     JoongAng Daily
Jim Lim, the newly appointed chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Korea, or AustChamKorea, expects the free trade agreement between Korea and Australia to be signed in the first half of this year.
US-Brazil ATEC (2011)
21-Mar-2011     USTR
US, Brazil sign trade, economic agreement as Obama visits
21-Mar-2011     Bloomberg
The US and Brazil signed a trade and economic cooperation agreement which is considered "among the first steps on the road to a free-trade agreement".
US ties visa waivers to progress on beef exports to Taiwan
19-Mar-2011     Taipei Times
Taiwan has been informed that the import ban on US beef products containing ractopamine residue could have repercussions for the nation’s long-standing request to be included in the US visa-waiver program
Obama to announce framework trade deal in visit to Brazil
19-Mar-2011     Reuters
US President Obama hopes to lay the groundwork for more trade with Brazil when he visits there this weekend, with announcements of a framework for negotiating future trade deals and a new round of US-backed financing for American companies bidding on Brazilian projects, foreign trade sources said Thursday.
NGOs urge EU to strike down Colombia trade deal
19-Mar-2011     Colombia Reports
More than 200 non-governmental organizations sign a manifesto calling on the European Union to strike down its free trade agreement with Colombia, EFE reported Wednesday.
HAI Europe on EU-India & EU-Mercosur trade agreements
19-Mar-2011    
All eyes are on the EU-India trade agreement, and the repercussions it will have on access to medicines in India and other developing countries. At the same time, the EU is in the process of negotiating other trade agreements that could harm or hinder access to medicines, such as this week's negotiations between the EU and the Mercosur countries.
Unexpected obstacles hinder ratification of US, EU FTAs
18-Mar-2011     Dong-a Ilbo
Korea`s free trade agreements with the US and the European Union, which Seoul hopes to ratify by this year`s first half, face unexpected obstacles to parliamentary ratification.