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EPA deal: Impasse on services persists
Although the region has concluded a deal on market access to the European Union, there remain fundamental disagreements on trade in services. The EastAfrican has learnt that the matter will be left out of any deals signed this year as countries want it handled at a bilateral level.
Palestinians declare war on Jewish settlements' products
The PNA campaign is accompanied by an international campaign to boycott any product made in Israeli settlements that the PNA considers illegal.
Palestinians seek to shut down settler trade
Prime Minister Fayyad said if Palestinians wanted to persuade the European Union to ban trade with the settlements -- considered illegal under international law -- they would have to do it themselves first.
FFII calls to remove IP chapter from EU-Korea free trade agreement
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) calls upon the EU Parliament and member states to remove the intellectual property rights chapter from the EU - Korea Free Trade Agreement.
Minister: Peru set to sign EU free trade accord in May
Peru's free trade agreement with the European Union should be signed in Madrid in May, Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said Thursday.
Expectations, Burma case derail FTA
Continuing political turmoil in the military-ruled Burma have caused major hurdles in the proposed free-trade deals being negotiated by members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with the European Union, Canada and the United States.
Spain to boost EU-L.America ties during its EU presidency
Spain will seek close association agreements between the EU and Central America, boost trade agreements between the EU and Colombia and Peru and resume talks between the EU and the Common Market of the South, during Madrid's rotating EU presidency in the first half of 2010
EU to launch FTA negotiations with individual ASEAN countries, beginning with Singapore
"While we don't lose sight of our ultimate goal of achieving an agreement within a regional framework, I welcome today's decision which will allow us to move forward and re-engage with this important region through negotiations with individual ASEAN member states," EU Trade Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said.
Singapore, EU agree to start FTA talks
Singapore and the European Union have agreed to begin talks for a free trade agreement, "paving the way for an EU-ASEAN FTA."
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) - draft IP chapter (2009)