Korean prosecutors said Monday they will resort to arrests and physical detention in dealing with protesters against the country's long-stalled free trade agreement with the US.
The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) is advocating the enactment of Sustainable Energy Trade Agreements to speed up the development and adoption of renewable energy and clean technology globally.
The Director General of the EAC Customs and Trade Directorate, Mr. Peter Kiguta has confirmed that the East African Community (EAC)-European Union (EU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Negotiations is on course and Partner States are not being bulldozed.
Google, Microsoft , Citigroup , IBM , GE and other top-tier American companies on Thursday urged the United States to fight for trade rules that protect the free flow of information over the Internet.
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads for the Maldives next week to participate in the 17th Saarc summit, it is expected that he will be suggesting some mechanisms to promote a greater level of regional economic integration.
With many of its big ideas still await implementation, the eight-member South Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries seem to have gone for a modest agenda this time.
The main opposition Democratic Party stepped up its public campaign against the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement over the weekend, as the ruling Grand National Party mulled pushing a final vote at a plenary session Wednesday.
Confrontation at South Korea's parliament over a free trade deal with the United States showed no sign of easing Friday, as some opposition lawmakers took to the streets while others continued sit-ins.
Argentina hopes to start exporting corn to China in a few months but is still finalizing details of a bilateral market access agreement, a senior Argentinian official said Thursday.
The Ghana government is likely to tell ECOWAS of its plans to go solo on the signing of the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (IEPA) when Trade Ministers in the sub-region meet in the country later this month.
European Union Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht took a “conciliatory but firm stance” on economic partnership agreement (EPA) negotiations when he recently met with Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) countries.
The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has just completed its seventh year. The US Bureau of Census calculated that most marriages that end last for eight years - the itch is supposed to begin in the seventh - so the fundamental issue is whether the relationship has been good for both parties.
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall will take advantage of an "extraordinarily powerful legal tool" now available to the world's corporations to sue the German government for phasing out nuclear power, it was confirmed this week.
