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Goodwill with Japan on FTA
19-Mar-2009    
Japanese demand for Australian commodities may be waning, but the Rudd Government insists there is still the political will for Tokyo and Canberra to find common ground on free trade.
Renowned professor calls for KORUS FTA renegotiation
19-Mar-2009     Hankyoreh
Lee Hae-young, a professor of international trade at Hanshin University, has proposed that the South Korean government renegotiate the free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States, saying the government should embrace repeated requests for renegotiation from the United States as a chance to review provisions it feels are unfair.
Protesters detained outside European Commission office
18-Mar-2009     Times of India
As the sixth round of negotiations related to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) got underway on Tuesday, the police detained a couple of representatives of public interest groups during a peaceful protest in front of the office of the European Commission (EC).
Will The SPP Rise Again?
17-Mar-2009     Border Fire Report
The global elite have not abandoned their vision for a North American Union and the SPP will rise again in one form or another.
Israel's government abuses Free Trade Agreement with US
17-Mar-2009     TAM
According to a chart of lost revenues and jobs between 1999 and 2008, the last 10 years of the FTA with Israel, the jobs lost to the American public is now an irreversible attribute of the US-Israeli trade relationship.
Amid protests, EU-India trade talks begin today
17-Mar-2009     WSJ
Ahead of the three-day free trade negotiations between India and the European Union, starting on Tuesday, a campaign group led by trade unions and non-profit organizations have asked the government to halt the talks.
FTA with China and Rio deal 'not linked'
17-Mar-2009     Sydney Morning Herald
A free trade deal between China and Australia won't be conditional on the government giving the green light to Chinalco's grab for a bigger share of Rio Tinto, Trade Minister Simon Crean says.
US farm exports at risk over Mexico truck dispute
17-Mar-2009     Reuters
US wheat, beef, rice and bean exports to Mexico face possible retaliatory duties in a dispute over whether Mexican trucks will be able to operate in the United States, Republican lawmakers said on Monday.
Jane Kelsey: Free trade deal may not make sense in these hard times
17-Mar-2009     NZ Herald
The careful stage management of announcements on free trade agreements is not new. But the US decision to defer negotations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership should encourage us to look beyond the simplistic assumptions that the more free trade agreements we sign, the better off we will be, based mainly on some fanciful modelling of the gains to agricultural exporters.
Globalization: The Long and Winding Road
17-Mar-2009    
It has been widely announced that the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is dead, as well as plans for a NAFTA Highway which many assured me never even existed in the first place.