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Don't use trade for resolving non-trade issues: Kamal Nath
29-Sep-2008     Economic Times
"Increasingly we hear about proposals in the EU for levy of carbon tax on imports into EU, ban on imports on allegations of labour law violations and use of child labour etc. Any effort to combine trade with other social issues would prove to be disastrous for bilateral trade" says India's commerce minister about the EU-India FTA.
India seeks ADB funding to help FTA-hit firms
29-Sep-2008     Financial Express
India has asked the Asian Development Bank to contribute to a fund to help compensate industries in the country, such as pepper growers in Kerala, that are adversely hit by the market-opening free trade agreements with several Asian countries.
Economic pact not good for us - farmers tell ACP delegates
29-Sep-2008     Graphic Ghana
Peasant farmers and some civil society groups in Ghana have called on African Ministers and negotiators to reject the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union.
India to sign ASEAN trade deal mid-Dec - minister
29-Sep-2008     Reuters
India will sign a free trade deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as expected in December after around four years of talks, an Indian minister said on Monday.
India trade unions, people's movement and civil society groups call for immediate halt to EU-India FTA negotiations
29-Sep-2008     CEC
As the two day (29-30 September, 2008) EU-India summit begins at Marseilles in France, civil society groups from across India demand a complete halt of the ongoing EU-India FTA negotiations.
Trade deal poses grave risks for India's workers and poor
29-Sep-2008     Traidcraft
A proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the EU poses a real threat to millions of small businesses, workers and farmers, according to a report published today by Traidcraft.
Japan agrees on concluding FTAs with Vietnam, Switzerland
29-Sep-2008     TMC
Japan has struck separate basic deals with Vietnam and Switzerland to conclude bilateral free trade agreements after more than one year of negotiations, government officials said Monday.
SA, India in preferential trade talks
29-Sep-2008     Business Day
South Africa has started talks on a preferential trade agreement with India. The trade and industry department last week gazetted the launch of the trade talks for November, urging industry to make inputs in the compilation of the list of goods of export interest to SA.
Who wins if we get a free trade with the US?
29-Sep-2008     Scoop
As New Zealanders have learned from the China FTA, we would be foolish to listen uncritically to the promises already being made for a trade deal with the US. The US drives a hard bargain.
Businesses say Sri Lanka cannot implement CEPA with India
28-Sep-2008     Sunday Times
Inadequate regulatory and monitoring measures, say local businesses, allowed corruption into the Indo-Lanka FTA implementation and allowed unscrupulous investors to violate local laws and benefit from the FTA.