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US gets tough on Canadian border
11-May-2009     LA Times
The Obama administration says security should be as stringent as on the Mexican frontier. Border residents and Canadian officials disagree, saying the terrorism threat is exaggerated.
Ma calls for fresh talks on FTA with Singapore
11-May-2009     Taipei Times
President Ma Ying-jeou says he expects Taiwan to sign a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore.
Indigenous leaders declare hunger strike in Peruvian Congress to protest FTA decrees
11-May-2009     Prism Webcast News
As the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency in the face of one month long indigenous protests, 42 indigenous leaders have entered the Peruvian Congress to announce a hunger strike until the issue of a repeal of decrees affecting the territorial rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon is debated by the full legislature. The decrees, which were passed to facilitate the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, facilitate the transfer of Amazon land and resource rights to oil, mining, logging and agricultural companies to the detriment of indigenous and campesino inhabitants. They also set the stage for the privatization of water resources.
Some possible Canada EU FTA IP issues
11-May-2009     Excess Copyright
The Canada/EU FTA negotation process is underway. From an intellectual property standpoint, there are many clear opportunities and pitfalls for Canadian interests depending on point of view.
China to offer more concessions to Hong Kong companies
11-May-2009     WSJ
Under new supplements to their Closer Economic Partnership Agreement, China will further open banking and securities services to Hong Kong companies
Activists oppose Igantieff's support of CCFTA
9-May-2009     Hour
Despite calls from labour and human rights organizations across Canada, on May 1 Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff announced that the party would support the ratification of a proposed Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).
EU agrees to final push in South Korea trade talks
9-May-2009     AFP
EU governments renewed on Friday their support for wrapping up floundering free trade talks with South Korea, a European Commission spokesman said.
Swine flu highlights the problem of accepting the intellectual property protections promoted by the European Union
8-May-2009    
Confronted by a potential pandemic, negotiations for FTAs with the European Union are taking place in Brussels this week, where more extensive protections for intellectual property will be discussed.
BIO position on Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA
8-May-2009     BIO
Position paper of the US-based Biotechnology Industry Organisation on the US negotiation of a Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA with Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand and Peru
Don't sign EPAs - COSATU urges Namibia
7-May-2009     Informante
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions has urged Namibia to follow South Africa and Angola's footsteps in refusing to sign the much-debated Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union, alleging that the purported agreement has a ‘hidden' agenda.