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SL-China FTA to allow skilled workers here
17-May-2015    
A storm is brewing over renewed negotiation of the proposed Indo-Sri Lanka Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi threw the ball in the Sri Lankan court saying India was interested in finalising this agreement.
Chief negotiators resume TPP talks in Guam
17-May-2015     Kyodo
Chief negotiators from 12 countries resumed talks Saturday in Guam on a US-led Pacific free trade initiative, to be capped by ministerial-level talks from May 26 to 28.
Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector: The portraits
17-May-2015     La Silla Rural
A new book “puts faces” on the realities rural people are experiencing two years into the US-Colombia FTA.
Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector
17-May-2015     Biodiversidad en América Latina
This report looking at specific cases that reflect the farming reality of Colombia allows us to verify what happened with the promises around the US FTA and open a broad debate about it.
ECOWAS ministers dialogue on EPAs, common external tariff in Accra
16-May-2015    
The 74th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers for sub-regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), opened here on Friday to discuss among other things the memorandum relating the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) .
ECOWAS urged to strengthen efforts to economic integration
16-May-2015    
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms Hannah Tetteh, has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to strengthen its efforts to promote regional economic integration and harmonise trade policies.
Eurasian union okays free trade with Iran
16-May-2015    
The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has given the initial go-ahead to signing a free trade agreement with Iran, a senior official of the bloc has said.
More than 1,000 plaintiffs file lawsuit to keep Japan out of TPP
15-May-2015     Japan Times
More than 1,000 people filed a lawsuit against the government on Friday, seeking to halt Japan’s involvement in 12-country talks on a Pacific Rim free trade agreement, which they called “unconstitutional.”
Reject TPP dispute settlement: ALP
15-May-2015    
Labor has called on the federal government to follow the example of the Howard years and oppose the inclusion of a controversial dispute-settlement provision in trade talks with the US.
Diet OKs trade agreement with Mongolia
15-May-2015    
The Diet approved an economic partnership agreement with Mongolia on Friday.