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Case for NZ-US free trade deal to be nudged along
5-Oct-2009     New Zealand Radio
The case for a free trade agreement with the United States will get another nudge this week when more than 100 leaders from both countries will take part in discussion hosted by the United States-New Zealand Partnership Forum on strengthening the economic relationship.
Malaysia plans to start FTA talks with GCC countries
5-Oct-2009     Business Times
Malaysia hopes to start negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council countries this week.
CPM forms human chain in Kerala over FTA with ASEAN
5-Oct-2009     Stockwatch
CPM chooses a unique way to express its reservation over Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN in Kerala. The party activists formed a 550 km human chain on a rainy Friday evening to register their protest against the pact scheduled to be effective from January, 2010.
The iniquitous perils of the free trade pact
5-Oct-2009    
Kerala’s rubber sector, in particular, will vanish if the free import of rubber from outside India under the FTA is allowed. Pepper, coconut, plantation products and similar commodities which form the backbone of Kerala’s economy will die, too.
EAC service industry practitioners meet
4-Oct-2009    
Services industry practitioners and representatives from the East African region met to discuss and seek ways of building services coalitions to confront challenges in the sector and help unlock the region’s economic potential.
E.Africa traders seek ways to boost exports to Europe
4-Oct-2009    
Players in the services industry from across the East Africa Community region are working on a raft of reforms that could unlock potential ahead of the signing of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the European Commission.
Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement comes into effect
4-Oct-2009    
The Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA) has come into official effect on October 1, thus import duty rates will be cut in accordance with the agreed roadmap.
‘FTA with Asean won’t hit fisheries’
4-Oct-2009    
Amid criticism by political rivals and apprehensions that the recently signed free trade agreement (FTA) with the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) would be detrimental to India’s agricultural and fisheries sectors, the government today said such fears had no basis.
Eureko secures exit from Polish PZU row
2-Oct-2009     IPE
An agreement has been signed between the Polish Ministry for State Treasury and Eureko to pay the insurer an interim dividend in November 2009 worth €1.85bn.
Kerala ready for massive rally to oppose Asean-India FTA
2-Oct-2009     Bernama
"We are apprehensive about the agreement with Asean. This agreement is not going to protect Kerala farmers. Majority of our farmers survive on small scale farming and they can't compete when the markets open up," Kerala's Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran told Bernama in a telephone interview Thursday.