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CAW calls for a halt to Korean free trade agreement
14-Oct-2008     Chatham Daily News
"Regardless of who is in power federally, we cannot afford a free trade agreement with Korea," Canadian Auto Workers member Mike Byrne said, noting Korea sold 130,000 vehicles in Canada in 2005 and Canada sold 400 vehicles in Korea that same year.
India-Myanmar trade and investment talks
14-Oct-2008     News Locale
Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh is heading an official delegation for trade and investment talks with the Government of Myanmar in Mandalay today where he will take up the issue of expanding trade centres along the 1600-kms India-Myanmar border.
EU and Morocco eye free-trade deals
13-Oct-2008     Reuters
The European Union hopes to reach a deal with Morocco on the liberalisation of agricultural trade this year and on services next year, the bloc said in a statement issued on Monday.
Kampala summit to decide the future of trade blocs
13-Oct-2008    
The first ever tripartite summit of the East African Community, the Common Market for East and Southern Africa and the Southern Africa Development Community takes place in Kampala this week.
Policy delay hits textile industry
13-Oct-2008    
Policy paralysis in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) is compounding problems for the region's struggling clothing and textiles industry.
India seeks expansion of border trade with Myanmar
13-Oct-2008    
India would seek to expand border trade by opening more trading points along the 1,600-km border it shares with Myanmar during the two-day talks to be held at Mandalay in that country beginning Tuesday.
IBSA nations set trilateral trade target of $15 bn
13-Oct-2008    
Reflecting their growing economic ties, India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) have set an ambitious trade target of $15 billion between the three countries by 2010.
Free trade deal will push reform in region
13-Oct-2008    
Advancing a bold free-trade agreement between Australia and Japan would be a "springboard" for influencing economic reform in the region.
MPs want region to turn away from EU
13-Oct-2008    
East Africa's increasingly frosty economic ties with the West took a turn for the worse last week when the region's parliamentarians called for their governments to scrap the interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
Japan trade deal unlikely this year
13-Oct-2008    
The proposed India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), involving trade in goods, services and investments, is unlikely to be signed this year.