ISDS Case Map
Thailand
Drug patent restrictions by the United States and the European Union in trade negotiations with emerging countries will harm the Thai pharmaceutical industry and affect local patients, say researchers.
The government is coming under increasing attack from activists for pushing ahead with EU-Thailand free trade agreement talks which include alcohol, tobacco and medicines.
During a gathering of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations, Chile inked a free-trade agreement with Malaysia, the first signed under the administration of President Sebastian Pinera, and started talks with Thailand for a similar agreement.
A series of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) is threatening the livelihoods of India's fishermen on the 8,000 km peninsular coastline -- among the longest in the world -- and the diets of millions of Indians for whom fish is a cheap source of protein.
In a move that can change the dynamics of trade in East Asia and also throw a challenge to China's economic dominance in its own backyard, India is looking forward to negotiate comprehensive free trade agreements with Indonesia and Thailand.
Peru will sign its free trade agreement with Thailand during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Japan next month.
A public hearing on whether to include alcohol and tobacco in the Thailand-EU free trade agreement talks was a non-starter yesterday as activists boycotted the event.
The Asia Europe Meeting to be held in Brussels next week will provide the first platform for high-level bilateral talks between the EU and Thailand, including ways to launch an EU-Thailand FTA, since Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted as prime minister, the chief of the European Commission in Thailand says.
The Early Harvest Protocol of the Partial Agreement for Bilateral Preferences negotiated with Thailand will take full effect in the first half of next year, according to Peru's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur).
Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) announced that the Early Harvest Protocol signed by Peru and Thailand in 2005 would enter into force in the first half of next year.
