ISDS Case Map
EU
European Union
Tanzania is lagging behind in preparing to sign a deal that will determine how it trades with Europe for a long time to come.
Karl Falkenberg, Deputy Director-General of Trade at the European Commission, says its is not worth having an Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and ECOWAS if the Agreement did not enshrine Free Trade Agreement-style full reciprocity between the parties and liberalised rules for Investment.
A special luncheon was held in downtown Seoul on July 4, 2006 to explain the advantages and disadvantages of a Korea-EU FTA. The European Union Chamber of Commerce Korea hosted the event.
The European Union wants a free-trade deal with Russia once the country joins the World Trade Organization, the European Commission president has said.
In this speech to ACP Ministers in Brussels EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson argues that EPAs offer the best possible framework for a new generation of trade relations between the EU and the ACP countries.
At the initiative of the Network of Farmers' and Agricultural Producers'
Organizations of West Africa (ROPPA), leaders of three small farmers'
networks from ACP regions met in parallel to the Joint Parliamentary
Assembly in Vienna on 19 June 2006 to assess the process of
negotiation of Economic Partnership Agreements between their regions and
the European Union.
Costa Rican trade union leaders on Wednesday said that that they will support the Association Treaty with the European Union for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but ruled out any similarity with US-sponsored accords.
The Dominican Republic, jointly with the other CARICOM (Caribbean) nations will propose to the ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) countries, creating structural adjustment funds to cover costs of the transition toward free trade, within the framework of negotiations with the European Union.
Pacific Island countries want the European Union to allocate additional resources to cover the costs of the regions adjustments when the Economic Partnership Agreement comes into effect.
The Pacific ACP Trade Ministers Meeting was held in Nadi, Fiji, on 19 and 20 June 2006.
