ISDS Case Map
medicines
Thailand was Robert Zoellick's first stop on a week-long visit to Southeast Asia to discuss economic, security and political issues.
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India sees tremendous scope for enhancing economic ties with Europe and has mooted a four pronged strategy for expanding India's trade basket with the enlarged EU in areas such as information technology & communication, biotech & pharmaceuticals, agro foods processing and textiles.
The United States and the Southern African trade bloc are set to revive free trade talks next month, but analysts say intellectual property rights for urgently needed AIDS drugs remain a stumbling block.
Thailand-US FTA: "Whatever we have to sacrifice must be sacrificed, if that helps get a better deal"
The third round of Thailand-US free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations ended on 8 April with great disappointment for civil society activists because people's demand and concerns were cast aside.
Public health experts fear that hope might fade for thousands of the region's chronically ill if the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, is approved this year.
During the ninth round of negotiations of a free trade agreement between the United States and three South American nations in the Andean region -- Colombia, Peru and Ecuador -- Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo called for ”greater flexibility” on the part of Washington.
One important provision in a China-Australia Free
Trade Agreement could be the establishment of a Medicines Working
Committee. This committee would facilitate cooperation, collaborations
and joint ventures between Australian and Chinese pharmaceutical
regulators, clinical trial and biotechnology researchers, as well as
generic manufacturers.
US chief negotiator Barbara Weisel assured that the FTA agreement would not affect drug prices in Thailand.
US negotiators on Friday wound up a third round of negotiations with their Thai counterparts on a proposed free trade agreement, saying they were pleased with the progress made.
More than 1,200 Thai farmers, slum dwellers and HIV/Aids patients from 30 civic groups staged a six-kilometre walkathon yesterday from a temple in Jomthien to the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel to drive home their demand that intellectual property rights be removed from free trade talks with the United States.
