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Investment provisions in economic integration agreements
23-Aug-2006     UNCTAD
The growing proliferation of economic integration investment agreements (EIIAs) has led to a multilayered and multifaceted web of investment rules.
Competition provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
23-Aug-2006    
Papers from a Yeditepe University conference on competition policy and regional trade agreements.
Conclude an Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and India at an early date - Nippon Keidanren
23-Aug-2006     Nippon Keidanren
A plea from the Japan Business Federation for a Japan-India FTA, outlining what the corporations would like it to provide.
Japan's efforts on Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
23-Aug-2006     MOFA
Snapshot of Japan's current bilateral free trade agreement efforts, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Senators demand US retain tariff on S Korean autos even after FTA
23-Aug-2006     Asia Pulse
Two US senators proposed a bill demanding the United States retain the existing import tariff on South Korean automobiles regardless of a future trade agreement as a way to pry open the Asian trade partner's market.
The 3rd round of Korea-US FTA talks coming...
23-Aug-2006     KoA
The third round of talks over the Korea-U.S. FTA will be held in Seattle in the United States -- a famous battleground of the WTO protests in 1999 -- from 6th to 9th September.
Patent or patient? How Washington uses trade deals to protect drugs
23-Aug-2006     Financial Times
The controversy over the impact of bilateral trade agreements on public health poses particular difficulties for the Geneva-based WHO, which is gearing up for the highly political election of a new director-general.
India, Nepal set to resume trade talks
23-Aug-2006     Financial Express
After a gap of almost two years, India and Nepal are all set to resume trade talks. Commerce secretaries from both the sides will meet in New Delhi on August 24 and 25 for consultations and to review bilateral trade, investment, infrastructure and transit issues.
US trade sanctions seek to pressure Latin America
23-Aug-2006     IRC Americas Program
The US government's announcement that it will review the possibility of limiting, suspending, or withdrawing trade preferences under the General System of Preferences (GSP) to three Latin American countries--Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela--is political pressure to make these nations participate in the model of regional integration proposed by the United States.
Impasses probables dans les négociations internationales : Le fameux Plan B du ministre «Decroix»
22-Aug-2006     Le Quotidien
Le Sénégal ne voit plus, semble-t-il, le besoin de poursuivre les négociations commerciales internationales si les choses n'évoluent pas.