Negotiations
Sri Lanka to be home to exclusive auto SEZ for Indian companies
17-Sep-2012Business Standard The development assumes importance as Sri Lanka did not show positive response to India’s offer to expand FTA between two countries to Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
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17-Sep-2012 Kyiv Post
Barroso says EU, Moldova may sign association agreement by September 2013
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso believes Moldova and the EU could sign an association agreement within a year, before an Eastern Partnership summit scheduled for September 2013, the Moldovan government reported citing Barroso as saying in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Vlad Filat. -
17-Sep-2012 Financial Express
MoF opposes FTA deal with Malaysia
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Finance has opposed the move of striking an agreement on bilateral Free Trade Area with Malaysia fearing the proposed deal, if signed, would only increase the trade deficit for Bangladesh. -
17-Sep-2012 Xinhua
L’accord de libre-échange Suisse-Hong Kong entrera en vigueur le 1er octobre 2012
L’accord de libre-échange entre la Suisse et Hong Kong entrera en vigueur le 1er octobre 2012. Le gouvernement suisse (Conseil fédéral) a avalisé vendredi les modifications du tarif des douanes suisses nécessaires à la mise en vigueur. -
16-Sep-2012
DTI spreads awareness of free trade agreements to increase their usage
The Department of Trade and Industry has intensified its information campaign about the country’s free trade agreements in a bid to increase their utilization rate this year. -
16-Sep-2012
European chamber to release study on potential EU-Taiwan trade pact
A study on a potential trade agreement between the European Union and Taiwan will be released on Sept. 20 in Taipei, according to the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT). -
16-Sep-2012
As the China FTA stagnates, Ted Baillieu gets on with business
At first blush, it looks like a suicide mission - taking hundreds of businesspeople to China for a big encounter with a one-party state, just weeks before that one party is to stage a 10-yearly leadership transition that will cascade down through every significant job in the country. -
13-Sep-2012 Univisión
Retraso en TLC entre Panamá y EEUU por falta de aprobación de leyes
La implementación del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre Estados Unidos y Panamá se retrasará más allá del 1 de octubre, debido a que el Congreso panameño no ha podido aprobar leyes necesarias para que el acuerdo entre en vigencia, dijo el ministro panameño del ramo. -
12-Sep-2012 RECALCA
Colombia: el TLC y el acceso a los medicamentos
El TLC acordado con Estados Unidos incrementará el número de medicamentos patentados al “relajar los criterios de patentabilidad”. -
12-Sep-2012 Perú 21
Perú insta a Indonesia a iniciar diálogo para un TLC
El ministro de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, José Luis Silva Martinot, confirmó que el Gobierno ha planteado al país asiático iniciar las conversaciones para llegar a un acuerdo. -
12-Sep-2012 Artículo 7
México y Brasil revaluarán posibilidad de TLC
El presidente electo de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, aterrizará la próxima semana en Brasil dispuesto a pasar la página de una reciente crisis comercial entre las dos mayores economías de América Latina.more
Key issues
Los daños del sistema alimentario industrial y la crisis del campo mexicano
12-Sep-2012 Greenpeace MéxicoComo serpiente que se muerde la cola, el sistema alimentario industrial –que es el principal causante del cambio climático global– se sacude por las pérdidas de cosechas debido a intensas sequías en EEUU. Todo está relacionado al mismo sistema industrial: semillas uniformes, sin biodiversidad, con agrotóxicos y fertilizantes sintéticos, con alto uso de transportes, energía y petróleo –por tanto gran emisor de gases de efecto invernadero– y controlado por transnacionales.
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6-Sep-2012 Nature
Trade deal to curb generic-drug use
Some countries whose governments purchase drugs with a set budget are also alarmed by signs that the TPP may grant new negotiating powers to the industry. -
29-Aug-2012 Reuters
Australia scraps carbon floor price, agrees EU link
Australia and the European Commission on Tuesday agreed to link their carbon trading schemes by 2018, allowing Australian companies to buy cheaper EU carbon credits and providing a much-needed boost for the flagging European market. -
29-Aug-2012 La Tribune
Les quotas de carbone vont "voyager" entre l’Europe et l’Australie
Les ministres européen et australien en charge du climat ont annoncé ce mardi 28 août leur projet de lier leurs systèmes d’échange de quotas de carbone d’ici à 2018. Une première qui pourrait être suivie d’autres alliances, comme l’espèrent les experts de la lutte contre le changement climatique. -
22-Aug-2012
Icsid: Venezuela with the largest amount of ongoing complaints
Venezuela turned out to be the country with the highest number of complaints filed against it at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Icsid) of the World Bank, after four new complaints lodged in the days prior to its effective pullout of the body. -
20-Aug-2012 IPS
Ile Maurice : Les pêcheurs veulent voir les bateaux de l’UE hors de leurs mers
Les pêcheurs locaux disent qu’un accord signé en février entre l’UE et cette nation insulaire de l’océan Indien, qui autorise les navires européens à attraper 5.500 tonnes de poissons par an pendant trois ans pour un coût de 660.000 euros par an, a fait empirer la situation. -
13-Aug-2012 PR Newswire
Almost 50 executives from the top US companies to take part in the 2012 Uzbekistan-US Annual Business Forum in Tashkent
The American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce has been arguing strongly to bring the US-Uzbek bilateral investment treaty into force. The Uzbeks have signed it, but the US has not yet ratified it.more
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