South Korea and the European Union failed on Thursday to finalize a free trade deal, South Korean officials here said, adding they would seek a way to conclude the deal. South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon and his EU counterpart Catherine Ashton met here to narrow differences on some remaining sticky issues, including a so-called duty drawback scheme and rules of origin, but failed to wrap up the agreement.
Opposition is growing over a controversial bilateral trade agreement Canada signed with Colombia in November, the largest trade accord in the Americas after NAFTA.
Militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is urging the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to divulge the content of the RP-European Union Partnership and Cooperation Agreement or (PCA).
Access to direct investments in China has become a bigger priority for Australia as it negotiates a Free Trade Agreement, Trade Minister Simon Crean told reporters on Tuesday.
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is appealing to the federal Liberal Party to join with other opposition parties to block the new Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
A potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Taiwan would have no direct link to Taiwan's proposed economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China, according to a senior U.S. official in Taipei.
Members of the Ghana Agricultural Producers and Traders Organisation (GAPTO) have called on the governments of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) not to conclude the Regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with European Union (EU) in June, this year.
Why is the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) an issue again? The administration of President Lee Myung-bak is trying to use the global economic crisis to force its market fundamentalism on the country. The FTA is the final push.
Parliamentary hearings will give a fulsome airing to critics of Canada's proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia, says the Harper government's Latin American cabinet minister, Peter Kent, the minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
In a report released today, Traidcraft shows that the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) under negotiation, would strip away essential policy tools that India needs to support its economy and safeguard jobs -- when European governments are doing all they can to rescue their own economies during these exceptional times.
