05 marzo, 2013

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As clock ticks toward Trans-Pacific trade pact deadline, US must end stall tactics on access to medicines | 5-March-2013
As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières calls on the US government to end its stall tactics and revise its proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries.

A Japan–EU free trade deal? | 5-March-2013
Amid talk of a super, transatlantic free trade zone, the eurozone now has a new potential partner: Japan. But, in light of Tokyo’s slow progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), can the Abe government match competitor South Korea in inking a trade pact with Brussels?

Colombia y Panamá reanudan negociaciones del TLC | 4-March-2013
Colombia y Panamá retomarán, a mediados de este mes, las negociaciones del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC), congeladas desde octubre del 2010, cuando los dos países acordaron abrir un paréntesis ante la imposibilidad de avanzar en el proceso.

Local firms reel under free trade deals | 4-March-2013
Indonesian firms cannot compete with lower prices offered by foreign rivals in their home market.


Thai civic groups warn against pact with EU | 4-March-2013
About 1,500 members of the groups under the umbrella network of FTA Watch gathered outside Government House yesterday to voice their concerns.

EU-Morocco: Barroso launches talks for free trade agreement | 3-March-2013
European Commission president José Manuel Barroso was in Rabat on Friday to launch talks for an EU-Morocco free trade agreement. The decision may end up as a major headache for Brussels, however, as the issue of relations with Morocco is a highly sensitive one within some Member States and the European Parliament itself, where the rights of the Saharawi people of the Western Sahara are defended.

Canada worries about US-EU free trade | 2-March-2013
Some experts in Ottawa think that the launch of EU-US trade negotiations could derail the EU-Canada talks

Australian-US alliance a factor in Chinese investment decisions | 1-March-2013
The growing size and value of China’s investments in Australia makes the case for a bilateral investment treaty increasingly urgent, according to a leading China expert.

TLC con UE hace peligrar los genéricos contra el sida en Tailandia, según ONG | 1-March-2013
La fundación AIDS Access afirmó hoy que el tratado de libre comercio (TLC) entre Tailandia y la Unión Europea (UE) pondrá en peligro el acceso de los enfermos de sida a los medicamentos genéricos en el país asiático.

Hoy entra en vigencia TLC entre Perú y la Unión Europea | 1-March-2013
En la víspera, el Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo dispuso, mediante un decreto supremo, la puesta en ejecución del acuerdo.

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