9-Nov-2010
Yonhap
Top trade officials from South Korea and the United States will hold further talks on Wednesday as the countries are struggling to resolve outstanding issues that have stalled the ratification of their free trade agreement signed more than three years ago, a Seoul trade official said.
9-Nov-2010
Reuters
Brazil and Mexico said on Monday they would start talks toward a bilateral trade deal in a bid to draw Latin America's top two economies closer together.
9-Nov-2010
Japan Times
Senior regional officials concluded their meeting Monday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Yokohama with a decision to pursue a regionwide free-trade zone.
9-Nov-2010
BusinessWorld
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday renewed calls for the government to start negotiating a free trade deal with the European Union, after noting that more Southeast Asian neighbors have begun talks with the Western bloc.
9-Nov-2010
Radio Fiji
Fiji has ceased exporting sugar to the Pacific region in order to meet its export quota to the UK (meaning Tate & Lyle) under preferential prices of the Economic Partnership Agreement.
8-Nov-2010
Al Jazeera
How a trade deal being brokered between Europe and India could cut off the developing world's supply of cheap medicines. Al Jazeera reports.
8-Nov-2010
AP
Pacific Rim economies are debating whether to change the informal Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum so that it can negotiate the creation of a Pacific-wide free trade zone.
8-Nov-2010
Reuters
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday in a largely peaceful protest against this week's G20 summit as the city went on heightened alert for the meeting of world leaders.
8-Nov-2010
Japan Times
"Japan is talking about a free-trade agreement for the Asia-Pacific region. But for Asian laborers, realization of this goal will mean increased unemployment or the shedding of full-time employees in favor of contract workers and the lowering of wages and salaries," union representatives say
8-Nov-2010
FT
This week’s talks are likely to try to come up with a side letter about the car market rather than attempt to reopen fundamentally the draft deal, a course of action to which Seoul is vehemently opposed.
