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‘Increased foreign investment will not lift all boats'
6-Aug-2008    
Paul Moist, the President of Canada's largest union, expressed concern about a free trade deal between Canada and Colombia during a recent meeting with Fabio Valencio, Colombia's Minister of the Interior.
Taipei aims to throttle Taiwan-Dominican Free Trade Deal
6-Aug-2008    
Taiwan president Ying Jeou Ma today said he's interested in accelerating talks for a Free Trade Agreement with Dominican Republic, for which his country's representatives were already instructed to expedite them.
Jordan, Canada to sign joint free trade agreement
6-Aug-2008    
Jordan and Canada will initially sign a joint free trade agreement at the end of this month and will be officially approved by the end of this year, Jordanian General Secretariat for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Muntaser Al-Aqla said on Tuesday.
EAC to carry out worker's survey
5-Aug-2008    
The East African Community is to conduct a regional manpower survey to establish the workforce base in the regional market ahead of coming into effect of the Common Market for East Africa in 2010.
JPEPA 'edges' toward Senate ratification
5-Aug-2008    
The controversial free trade agreement between the Philippines and Japan is "edging" toward ratification with 12 senators signing a committee report recommending its approval by the Senate, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago said Tuesday.
CEPA draws flak
5-Aug-2008    
The political parties debated the pros and cons of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in Parliament yesterday with the JVP and its breakaway group which is now called the National Freedom Front (NFF) asking the government to scrap it.
Korean activists to protest Bush's visit
5-Aug-2008     Korea Times
Left-wing activists are hoping to use Bush's two-day visit to Korea to press for a renegotiation of the beef deal and reignite the candlelight protest movement. The protest will also raise calls to nullify a bilateral free trade agreement and withdraw Korean troops from Iraq.
Kamal Nath calls for greater Indian access to Japanese agriculture market
5-Aug-2008     PIB
Shri Kamal Nath, India's Minister of Commerce and Industry has expressed hope that the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) could be concluded during the next round of talks which are scheduled to be held in New Delhi in September 2008.
Former USTRs talk trade
5-Aug-2008     WWD
Four former architects of US trade policy, sharing nearly 20 years of negotiating experience between them and spanning three administrations, laid out to Congress last week their blueprints for a future agenda.
Dhaka mulls free trade pacts with India, Pak, Sri Lanka
5-Aug-2008     Economic Times
Bangladesh has decided to sign bilateral free trade agreements (FTA) with three major South Asian trading partners - India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - in view of the failure of multilateral trading arrangements to serve the country's interests.