22-Sep-2006
Outline intervention by Michael Treschow, Vice-President, UNICE (Confederation of European Business)
22-Sep-2006
Presentation at EU-Asia Business Forum, Helsinki, 10-11 September 2006
22-Sep-2006
South Korea said Friday it will open a seventh round of formal talks next week on a proposed free trade agreement with Canada.
22-Sep-2006
Tuesday's bloodless coup in Thailand has left a free-trade agreement negotiated between Tokyo and Bangkok up in the air, a senior Japanese official said Thursday as businesses waited for the dust to settle.
22-Sep-2006
Chile and Japan have negotiated a free trade agreement that among other facilities will sever bilateral exchange tariffs by 92 percent.
22-Sep-2006
A proposed free-trade deal between Australia and Japan is looking shaky, with agriculture again the most contentious issue.
22-Sep-2006
Reuters
France intends to target the Gulf, India, Asia and the Mediterranean basin in a push towards bilateral trade deals following the collapse of global free trade talks, Trade Minister Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.
22-Sep-2006
MercoPress
A council of Andean foreign ministers yesterday approved Chile's re-entry to the Andean Community of Nations trade group after a three-decade absence.
22-Sep-2006
Ohmynews
BITs are generally crafted as political documents and quite often contain no mention of development. Western countries prefer to prioritize investment. If a development objective is involved, it is often generalized to the exclusion of any role for government.
