New Zealand Prime Minister John Key would like to see a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea agreed this year in order to bolster bilateral trade links, despite admitting Monday that some South Korean industries would resist a deal.
An ad hoc coalition of 40 food and agricultural organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council in a letter sent yesterday to the Obama administration and Congress expressed concern that a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union might fall short of long-established US objectives for trade pacts.
Japan, South Korea and China have wrapped up a three-way investment treaty seen as an important stepping stone toward the far more ambitious goal of forging a free-trade zone among the Asian neighbors despite a history of tension and distrust that have hindered closer ties.
Kenya's flower exports to the European Union will be subjected to a 16 per cent duty should a proposal to impose a deadline on the Economic Partnership Agreements negotiations sail through the European Parliament this year.
Some African countries could lose tax-free access for exports to the European Union if they fail to sign a deal by next year to replace preferential agreements that the World Trade Organisation has rejected, an EU lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Japan should adopt a two-pronged trade strategy — participate in the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement and further deepen economic ties with the rest of Asia — to achieve economic growth, according to the top economist at the Asian Development Bank Institute.
The United States could soon suspend trade benefits for Argentina because of that country's failure to pay awards in two long-running investment disputes with U.S. companies, a U.S. trade official said on Monday.
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday said he was concerned about the nation’s economic development after a free-trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US came into force last week, adding that the government’s plan to partially lift a ban on US beef imports would help facilitate trade relations with other countries.
A cargo plane that departed from Chicago arrived at Incheon International Airport at 7:39 a.m. Thursday. The plane was the first vehicle to bring U.S. freight to Korea since the bilateral free trade agreement took effect Thursday.
A bid by European parliament to impose a deadline for reaching a binding trade pact with East Africa is driving a wedge between the Government and exporters who feel the matter is not being addressed urgently enough.
The latest round of negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership nine-country trade pact has wrapped up without an American offer on access to its prized dairy markets.
The Fourth Round of Negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Chile and Thailand seeks to promote a productive exchange between the economies of both countries, starting with tariff reductions and the reduction of technical barriers to trade.
