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Matrix of FTAs in the world
1-Dec-2009    
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Building Blocks Towards an Asia-Pacific Union
1-Dec-2009     NAUresistance
President Obama has recommitted to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Expanding the TPP would further distinguish it as the only regional free trade agreement that spans both sides of the Pacific, linking Asia with the Americas. It could gradually evolve into a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.
India-New Zealand trade talks likely early next year
30-Nov-2009     Malaysia News.Net
'While Indian agriculture is highly protected, improved access for our agricultural and primary produce, especially in an added-value form, needs to be one of the key focuses of the negotiations,' India-New Zealand Trade Business Council chairman Wenceslaus Anthony said.
Ukraine and Canada to launch talks on free trade zone agreement in 2010
30-Nov-2009     NRCU
The first round of talks will be held in February 2010.
Sino-Swiss free trade accord weighed up
30-Nov-2009     swissinfo
Switzerland and China have launched a feasibility study aimed at drawing up a free trade agreement between the two countries.
Auto workers slam DTI on JPEPA auto tariff talks delay
30-Nov-2009     Manila Bulletin
A group of 75,000 automotive industry workers has slammed the Philippines Department of Trade and Industry for lack of earnest efforts to negotiate a delay in the tariff elimination of imported vehicles under the signed Japan Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
Colombia-US trade deal stuck in the mud
30-Nov-2009     Meat Trade News
The third anniversary of the signing of the US-Colombia free trade pact came and went this month with the Obama administration still negotiating the fine print, Congress showing little interest and business groups frustrated by the lack of action on trade deals.
Only half Asean members ratify FTA with India
29-Nov-2009     India Journal
India’s trade with South East Asia will be liberalized only partially from January 2010, as half of the 10-nation bloc has not received parliamentary approval for the Free Trade Agreement signed in August.
Spanish claim Moroccan fraud
29-Nov-2009     Fresh Info
Fepex, the association which represents Spanish exporters, has claimed that fraud is taking place in import activity of tomatoes from Morocco into the EU, making a mockery of the constraints of the existing Association Agreement.
EU, Mercosur may kick-start trade talks at Portugal summit
29-Nov-2009     Dow Jones
While innovation and development is the official theme of the Iberoamerican summit Sunday through Tuesday, Spain and Portugal want to use the meeting to revive long-stalled talks to reach a free-trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur economic bloc.