ASEAN
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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.
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3-Sep-2012
Korea, Vietnam Hold 1st Round of FTA Talks
The first round of free trade agreement talks between Vietnam and Korea kicked off on Monday in Seoul. During the talks that will continue until Tuesday, the two countries will discuss how to proceed with the negotiations. Seoul’s foreign ministry expects the bilateral trade pact to enhance an existing free trade agreement with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations that took effect in 2007.
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3-Sep-2012 Yomiuri Shimbun
Pact among ASEAN, partners could kickstart Japan’s stalled policy
The agreement reached Thursday to start negotiations in November for a new regional economic and trade area among ASEAN countries and six partners, including Japan, is a lifeline for the nation, as its trade policy has come to an impasse.
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3-Sep-2012 Les Echos
L’Asean annonce des progrès vers une zone de libre-échange en Asie
Seize pays d’Asie, comptant pour la moitié de la population mondiale environ, ont conclu un accord de principe pour créer une zone de libre-échange, a annoncé vendredi Surin Pitsuwan, le secrétaire-général de l’ASEAN, l’association des nations d’Asie du Sud-Est.
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31-Aug-2012
Pan-Asian FTA possible
Sixteen nations home to roughly half the world’s population have agreed "in principle" to create a free trade area spanning Asia, according to Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan.
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29-Aug-2012
India, ASEAN to review talks on FTA in services and investments
Trade ministers of India and 10-member ASEAN will review the progress of ongoing negotiations to widen the base of free trade agreement between them by including services and investments.
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14-Aug-2012 Live Mint
Whither the Asian FTA?
East Asia may be on its way to stitch a regional trade agreement. This will be at the cost of an Asia-wide deal, writes Biswajit Dhar.
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7-Aug-2012 Chosun Ilbo
Korea, Vietnam to start FTA talks
Korea and Vietnam have agreed to start formal talks toward a free trade agreement. Seoul and Hanoi already have a preliminary FTA, because Korea signed a trade pact with ASEAN. But Korea’s key exports — cars, components and IT products — are not included in the pact with ASEAN, so Seoul is now seeking separate FTAs with each ASEAN member country.
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29-Jul-2012
Impact of EU trade pact studied
The government will soon start consultations to identify sectors that stand to gain or lose from a free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), a senior official told reporters on Friday.
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21-Jul-2012
HK accession means opportunities
If Hong Kong accedes to the China-Asean Free Trade Area (CAFTA), Malaysia would find opportunities to expand its services sector through Hong Kong’s established service-based economy.
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16-Jul-2012 Yonhap
Korea ratchets up drive to upgrade FTA with ASEAN
Korea is stepping up efforts to seal high-level bilateral free trade pacts with some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in a bid to further boost trade volume, Seoul’s Trade Ministry said Sunday.
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2-Jul-2012
EU, PH to engage in fresh FTA talks
The Philippines may start fresh talks with the European Union in the third quarter to iron out a proposed bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), according to the country’s chief trade negotiator.
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10-Jun-2012
‘India-Asean FTA has more potential for bilateral trade’
Hyderabad/The India-Asean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is under-utilised, as it has more potential for increasing bilateral trade, according to Mr Vichael Angelo, Commercial Attache, the Philippines Department of Trade & Industry.
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21-May-2012
Among Neighbours - How to energize India’s Look East policy
India has traditionally looked West for trade, investment, and economic cooperation. But since the late 1990s, trade policy rightly focused on the Look East policy, and recognized that India needs to become integrated into the cross-border production and trade networks in Asia. The immediate attention was towards South Asian integration. But since the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and the South Asian Free Trade Area remained just on paper on account of the yet unresolved differences between India and Pakistan, the government simultaneously initiated trade agreements with Southeast Asia.
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27-Apr-2012 The Nation
EU and Asean confirm objective of free trade agreement
Foreign Ministers of the EuropeanUnion and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) re-stated their commitment Friday to an eventual free trade agreement between the two economic zones.
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22-Apr-2012
Tokyo’s trade priorities
Achieving full free trade among its members by 2020 remains the stated goal of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) group, but few expect it to materialise due to the non-binding nature of the agreement.
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20-Apr-2012
PM: Still work to do on trade with Indonesia
Despite the free trade agreement between New Zealand and Indonesia which came into force early this year there is still much to do to remove barriers to trade between the two countries, Prime Minister John Key says.
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20-Apr-2012
Study investment provisions before an FTA says advocacy group
The country should carefully study investment provisions before entering into foreign trade agreements (FTAs) as these may infringe on government’s regulatory power on foreign firms, an advocacy group on Friday said.
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19-Apr-2012 Prensa Latina
Asean y Unión Europea acarician un TLC
Representantes de la Asociación de Estados del Sudeste Asiático (Asean) prosiguieron hoy buscando esclarecer con la Unión Europea (UE) la factibilidad futura de establecer tratados de libre comercio (TLC) entre distintos bloques integracionistas.
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18-Apr-2012 Vietnam+
L’ASEAN et l’UE discutent d’un accord de libre-échange
Les officiels des pays membres de l’ASEAN et de l’Union européenne ont entamé lundi dans la capitale indonésienne Jakarta des discussions sur la question de l’Accord de libre-échange (FTA) bilatéral et du commerce international en matière agricole.
