29-Mar-2008
Japan signed a free trade agreement Friday with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to promote trade and investment between the two sides.
29-Mar-2008
Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson, Levy Mwanawasa, has said member states and some international cooperating partners are dissatisfied with the SADC secretariat's lack of capacity to absorb financial aid meant to help the regional body achieve its goals.
29-Mar-2008
The Pacific ACP Trade Ministers from the region have agreed to proceed as a group with negotiations of a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with the European Commission by the end of the year.
29-Mar-2008
As the recently initialled interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) continues to take centre stage, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Africa have vowed to step up their stop-EPA campaign saying the pact has contentious issues.
29-Mar-2008
The government today asked the country's business houses to shift focus to the SAARC region and exploit the opportunities there, especially when the US and the European economies are slowing down.
29-Mar-2008
Singapore Saturday expressed optimism about enhanced economic cooperation with Taiwan as long as issues involving trade are not politicised.
28-Mar-2008
Joseph Caron, the Canadian ambassador to Japan, spoke about the great economic benefits which could be derived from a Free Trade Agreement between Japan and Canada during a seminar in Osaka on Friday.
28-Mar-2008
Panama's cabinet has approved the free trade agreement (FTA) between Panama and Guatemala signed on Feb. 26, Commerce and Industry Minister Alejandro Ferrer said Thursday.
28-Mar-2008
United Future leader Peter Dunne has turned down a trip to China for the free trade deal signing to protest the treatment of Tibetan people.
27-Mar-2008
Amid the noisy battering the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) is taking from both Democratic presidential hopefuls, one recent statement from Hillary Clinton was particularly resonant. "We will have a very clear view of how we're going to review Nafta," the New York senator said. "We're going to take out the ability of foreign companies to sue us because of what we do to protect our workers."
