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EU, South Korea ink free-trade deal: commission
15-Oct-2009     AFP
The European Union and South Korea on Thursday signed a free trade deal which Brussels said would be worth 19 billion euros (28 billion dollars) in new trade for EU exporters.
S.Africa farmers want land in Zimbabwe investment pact
15-Oct-2009     Reuters
While Agri SA has been leading a push for South African farmers to invest and farm in a number of other countries across Africa, including the Republic of Congo, Libya and Zambia, the union has urged its members to stay away from countries where South Africa has no investment protection agreements.
EU-RP partnership deal will take 2 years - MacDonald
15-Oct-2009     GMA News
The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the Philippines and the European Union, a prerequisite for an FTA, might take two years before being realized, an official said Wednesday.
Mexico revs up war on workers; Obama shrugs
13-Oct-2009     Huffington Post
Last Saturday night, October 10, several thousand Mexican government agents and police stormed into the headquarters and a hundred substations of the publicly owned electric utility, Luz Y Fuerza.
For safety’s sake
13-Oct-2009     The Star
Malaysia is about to adopt its biosafety regulations despite pressure from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation that called on the US trade representative to reject mandatory labelling of GM products in the US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement, claiming that labelling is tantamount to trade barrier.
World's poor see few job benefits from trade boom
12-Oct-2009     Reuters
The boom in global trade over the last two decades has not improved the quality of most jobs in poorer countries, the World Trade Organisation and United Nations labour agency (ILO) said on Monday.
Costa Rica: March against impacts of CAFTA
12-Oct-2009     Infoshop
On 6 October, two years after the fraud that ordered the adoption of the FTA with the US, there was a People's Walk for Dignity in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica.
Why did Seoul change to favour free trade with China?
12-Oct-2009     DPA
Last weekend's news that South Korea and China had agreed to begin serious negotiations aimed at forging a free trade deal took many analysts by surprise, leading some to ask: What's in it for Seoul?
New Via Campesina publication: FTAs in South East Asia and East Asia
12-Oct-2009     Via Campesina
This book is a compilation of various papers that were presented at a strategic meeting organized by La Via Campesina in South Korea in December 2008.
No CEPA with Pakistan before India
11-Oct-2009     The Island Business
Sri Lanka is very likely not pursue a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with Pakistan because a similar agreement with India was put in cold storage last year amidst mounting domestic pressure.