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Thailand seeks adjustment on Australia FTA
3-Feb-2011     The Nation
Thailand will soon start talks with Australia on opening up the two countries' markets to more goods and services under their five-year-old free-trade agreement.
Peru-EU FTA legal review to conclude on Friday
3-Feb-2011     Andina
Once the text is finalised, the Peruvian Chancellery is in charge of determining whether the FTA should be ratified by Congress or the Executive, while the EU will determine whether the agreement is “mixed” or not, reports Agencia Andina.
Libre-échange: un accord Canada-Europe serait néfaste pour le Québec
2-Feb-2011     La Presse Canadienne
La signature d'un traité de libre-échange entre le Canada et l'Union européenne serait néfaste pour le Québec, qui verrait s'effriter sa souveraineté économique, conclut une étude de l'Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine (IRÉC).
Free trade: US corn flows south, Mexico exports men
2-Feb-2011     McClatchy
"The government [of Mexico] didn't so much pull the plug on corn. The government pulled the plug on family farmers who grow corn because the big guys who grew corn got massive subsidies and protection from imports," said Jonathan Fox, an expert on rural Mexico at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Textile groups oppose KORUS FTA
2-Feb-2011     Textile World
Five organizations representing interests of the US textile industry have sent a letter to members of Congress urging defeat of the pending US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, and a campaign has begun to include the voices of the wider community in a grassroots expression of opposition to the treaty.
India-EU FTA: Grave implications of unrestrained investments
1-Feb-2011     Madhyam
The EC recommendations contain several alarming policy provisions and therefore should receive public attention both in Europe and India. If implemented, these provisions would seriously undermine development priorities and restrict policy space to regulate investments in the public interest.
Don’t swallow this pill
1-Feb-2011     Indian Express
Troubling news reports indicate that a newly-minted Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and India would permit companies to circumvent visionary safeguards built into India’s 2005 Patents Act, widely seen as one of the most progressive patent laws in the world.
Business as usual - How free trade agreements jeopardise financial sector reform
31-Jan-2011     SOMO
In contrast with the current wide-ranging financial reform agenda in the European Union, the EU continues to liberalise a wide range of risky and non-risky financial services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services and other Free Trade Agreements as if the financial crisis never happened. This SOMO briefing paper gives specific examples on how new EU regulations are in contrast with the pre-crisis model that is still being applied in the GATS negotiations, the Cariforum-EU Economic Partnership Agreement and the EU-South Korea FTA.
Deepening Canada-US security and military ties‏
31-Jan-2011     Be Your Own Leader
Recent Canada-U.S. bilateral talks further deepened security and military ties.
US: More than 250 economists call for trade reforms to allow capital controls
31-Jan-2011     IPS
In a letter delivered January 31, more than 250 economists urged the Obama administration to reform US trade rules that restrict the use of capital controls.