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AFL-CIO, Steelworkers split with auto union on Korea trade deal
10-Dec-2010     Bloomberg
The AFL-CIO, the largest US union group, and the United Steelworkers oppose the Obama administration’s trade agreement with South Korea, splitting with unions representing auto and farm workers.
S. Korea, Malaysia seek bilateral FTA, closer ties on energy, defense
10-Dec-2010     Yonhap
In 2007, South Korea launched an FTA with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which includes Malaysia, but Seoul hopes for a higher-level separate FTA with the country, one of South Korea's major economic partners.
US group stands by intellectual property protection
9-Dec-2010     Radio NZ
An influential American business lobby, the US Chamber of Commerce, has hit out at New Zealand's position on intellectual property rights in the TransPacific Partnership trade talks.
Q&A: Business Europe: 'India has advantage compared to the other BRIC countries'
9-Dec-2010     Business Standard
Philippe de Buck, secretary general of Business Europe, the most influential EU industry lobby in the region, spoke to Pallavi Aiyar to reflect on the European businesses’ perspective on the potential trade accord.
EPAs bound to stir unhealthy competition
9-Dec-2010     KBC
Kenya Human Rights Commission has called on the government to discontinue Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations with the European Union arguing that if signed would deepen dependency on Europe.
With UAW's King for cover, Obama backhands labor in Korea trade deal
9-Dec-2010     Labor Notes
UAW sources suggest King felt he had to back the trade deal as payback to Obama for pumping billions into failing automakers in 2009—although the bailout of Chrysler and GM laid off tens of thousands of workers and cut pay—in half—for future auto workers.
South Korean farmers protest against free trade agreement with US
9-Dec-2010     NTDTV
South Korean farmers staged a protest on Wednesday, urging their government to abolish the US- South Korea free trade agreement.
US union backing helps Korea trade pact chances
9-Dec-2010     NY Times
An unusual split in the US labor movement has developed over President Obama’s proposed free-trade pact with South Korea, with two powerful unions backing the deal — a development that experts say will make Congressional ratification far more likely.
Retailers protest against European push for FDI in retail
9-Dec-2010     NewsWorms
Thousands of retailers marched in the streets of Delhi against the onslaught of neo-liberal economic policies, raising slogans against supermarkets, free trade agreements (FTA), forward trading and goods and services tax.
MEPs protest FTA with Colombia
9-Dec-2010     Colombia Reports
Members of the European Parliament say that the EU's free trade agreement with Colombia should not be approved as there has been little progress on human rights in the Andean nation, reports ABC.