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Pacific region health groups urge TPP ministers to end harmful impact of FTAs on access to medicines
18-Feb-2011    
This week at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement trade negotiations in Santiago de Chile, civil society stakeholders urged delegates to end the harmful impact of trade agreements on access to medicines, with this letter.
Problems in trade talks with EU
18-Feb-2011     Hindu Business Line
EU is pushing India to relax controls on capital flows and conditions on investment, such as export obligation and local content requirement.
Teamsters head opposes Korean trade pact
18-Feb-2011     DN
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa, in a break from the Obama administration and the United Auto Workers union, opposes the Korea free trade agreement. "The last thing America’s middle class needs right now is ’Son of NAFTA,’ " Hoffa said.
Solidarity in action: Unionists across North America to protest for Mexican workers’ rights
18-Feb-2011     In These Times
This week, people across the United States and Canada will demonstrate at Mexican consulates and embassies in protest of violations of the right to organize in Mexico. Of particular concern to protesters will be the bitter strikes and repression of unions representing miners and electrical workers, and the escalating practice of government and corporate entities forcibly installing company unions known there as “protection unions.”
Chile official: Asia-Pacific trade bloc may not be ready in 2011
18-Feb-2011     Dow Jones
An Asia-Pacific free-trade agreement nine nations are negotiating might not be ready this year as originally expected, Chile's chief trade negotiator said Thursday.
New leaks of TPPA text show US is playing hardball
18-Feb-2011     TWN
There has been another leak of the secret documents at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Santiago this week, this time involving United States’ negotiating text.
EU, South Korea trade agreement overcomes final European hurdle
18-Feb-2011     Bloomberg
EU companies that may benefit include pharmaceutical producers GlaxoSmithKline Plc, chemical makers BASF SE, and consumer electronics manufacturers Royal Philips Electronics NV. Farm exporters, shipping businesses and the financial- and legal-services industries also stand to gain.
India, Malaysia to sign free trade pact tomorrow
18-Feb-2011     PTI
India will sign another free trade agreement with Malaysia tomorrow to boost the $8 billion bilateral trade by further reduction of duties by the two countries
Europe ratifies free trade deal with S. Korea
18-Feb-2011     AFP
Europe gave its final approval on Thursday to a major free trade deal with South Korea, eliminating most tariffs in a pact hailed as a model for future agreements with other Asian nations.
S. Korea eyes growing competition following Japan-India FTA
18-Feb-2011     Yonhap
Competition between South Korean and Japanese businesses in India will likely intensify following New Delhi's signing of a free trade agreement with Tokyo this week, a local trade body said Friday.