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A North American Security Perimeter On The Horizon
12-Jan-2010     beyourownleader
We are well on the way towards a North American security perimeter where trade and investment will be able to roam freely, while we are all forced to endure new security practices dominated by U.S. interests.
ALBA will start using the Sucre
12-Jan-2010     Capitales
Sucre is a virtual “currency” which will be used in the Alba countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, San Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela.
Protesters want boycott of Japanese products
12-Jan-2010     Stuff
Anti-whaling protesters have called for Kiwis to boycott Japanese goods over the slaughter of whales as the protest ship Ady Gil sank in the Southern Ocean.
Human rights and the ASEAN-China FTA
12-Jan-2010     Jakarta Post
Entering year 2010 is marked by the entry into a free trade area agreement between ASEAN and China, also known as the ASEAN-China FTA. Little attention was given to the possible impact of this FTA agreement to fulfill human rights in Indonesia.
Free trade agreements may aid toxic-waste trade
12-Jan-2010     DNA India
As Indian negotiations for signing free trade agreements (FTAs) with trade partners such as Japan and the European Union (EU) gather momentum, so do concerns over environment and waste dumping.
S'pore, Costa Rica, to ink FTA
12-Jan-2010     Straits Times
It will be Costa Rica's first with an Asian country
Israel pushing for trade pact with India
12-Jan-2010     The Hindu
Israel on Monday said it wants to push for a free trade agreement with India with an objective of tripling bilateral commerce to USD 12 billion over the next four-five years.
China trade deal to cost Indonesia 'millions of jobs’
11-Jan-2010     Jakarta Globe
In the latest and most authoritative warning about a new region-wide free-trade agreement with China, an executive with the state social security provider PT Jamsostek predicts that as many to two million Indonesians will be laid off because their firms can’t outperform their Chinese rivals.
Will beef derail US-Taiwan trade relations?
11-Jan-2010     Time
The U.S. Defense Department's approval of a new arms package to Taiwan on Wednesday was the best new year's gift that President Ma Ying-jeou could ask for
Palestinians seek to shut down settler trade
10-Jan-2010     Reuters
Prime Minister Fayyad said if Palestinians wanted to persuade the European Union to ban trade with the settlements -- considered illegal under international law -- they would have to do it themselves first.