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Beyond TRIPS: The Current Push for Greater International Enforcement of Intellectual Property
5-Nov-2009     Event and Webcast at American University
Passing on the Mantle of Deep North American Integration
4-Nov-2009     NAUresistance
All the talk of renegotiating NAFTA appears to have revived the trade accord and renewed the push for North American integration. This could lead to NAFTA’s expansion into a North American Union and might serve to further spread its failed model to other parts of the Western Hemisphere.
Nov. 19 Nl: Workshop on Global Europe and strategies on European Free Trade Agreements
4-Nov-2009    
Australia-Malaysia FTA Should Be Comprehensive - Envoy
3-Nov-2009    
Australia is looking forward to a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) with Malaysia but has set no timeframe to conclude negotiations on it.
NZ agrees trade deal with six Gulf states
3-Nov-2009    
New Zealand has successfully concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement with six oil-rich Gulf states, Trade Minister Tim Groser announced yesterday.
Nepal: US floats TIFA for zero-duty facility
3-Nov-2009     Republica
The US Trade Representative has floated an option of Washington and Kathmandu signing a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement and it has forwarded a text of the TIFA to the Commerce Ministry for necessary study for further negotiations.
Liser urges firmer ties between US, COMESA
3-Nov-2009     The Post
US assistant trade representative for Africa Florizelle Liser yesterday said there is need to strengthen her country’s relationship with the COMESA region through various trade and investment agreements.
Leuthard keeps to agriculture course
3-Nov-2009     swissinfo
Swiss Economics Minister Doris Leuthard is keeping to the policy of liberalising agriculture, and negotiating an FTA with the European Union, despite mounting criticisms and boot lobbing by angry farmers.
Dairy sector welcomes FTA with Gulf States
3-Nov-2009     TVNZ
The New Zealand industry expects to make substantial gains through preferential market access to the GCC and leverage off growing dairy consumption in the region.
India-EU summit on Friday
3-Nov-2009     IANS
The daylong India-EU summit is expected to give a decisive political push to negotiations over the long-deliberated, broadbased trade and investment pacts that are currently dragging due to differences over the EU’s bid to bring in non-trade issues into the talks.