ISDS Case Map
corporate interests
Meat & Wool New Zealand describes the prospect of a free trade agreement between New Zealand and South Korea as a "big deal" for domestic beef producers.
Australia's red meat and live cattle export trade to South-East Asia received a boost last week, with the signing of a new trade deal.
Australia's beef industry will be the big winner if free trade talks between the Government and South Korea are successful.
India needs to expedite a free trade pact with the South-east Asian nations to boost exports in the face of a global economic downturn and rising protectionism, an industry body said on Thursday.
At a hearing on proposed free trade negotiations with countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership area (TPP), the US National Council of Textile Organisations opposed the proposed inclusion of Vietnam in the negotiations and said the textile industry would oppose any agreement that included Vietnam.
Multinational corporations (MNCs) from outside Asean are taking better advantage of the region's trade and investment liberalisation than the companies from within, Secretary General of Asean, Dr Surin Pitsuwan said.
More than a year and a half since Korea and the United States signed a free trade agreement, the deal is still pending. Now attention is focusing on whether the two countries' legislatures can approve the agreement to mark the one-year anniversary of Korea's Lee Myung-bak administration and the launch of the new Barack Obama administration in the US.
The Scotch Whisky Association will this week call on the European Union to step up the pressure on South Korea to lower its punitive 20% import tariffs in a groundbreaking free trade agreement that will help unlock the fifth largest whisky market in the world.
Efforts by the European Union to insert strong provisions on pharmaceutical patents in free trade agreements it is negotiating with India, Colombia, Peru and ASEAN could imperil access to medicines in developing countries, global public health activists have alleged.
Two key figures in Chinese politics embarked on a tour of Latin American countries on February 9, in a sign that the Asian superpower is intent on consolidating its already substantial stake in the region.
