After more than two and a half years of talks, the EU and Singapore have concluded negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA). Singapore has agreed to establ...
The ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus Japan, China and the Republic of Korea are developing plans for a 700,000-800,00...
Part of the challenge in moving toward freer trade in the world is opposition from farmers in developed countries with protected status not interested in fac...
President Obama’s state visit November 13-19 to Asia is occurring at a time when economic conditions allow for a new focus on trade issues. The economic ...
Investor's Business Daily
By Doug Tsuruoka
May 13, 2009
www.investors.com
Cash-rich and hungry, it eyes pacts with more nations around globe
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U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab recently announced the launch of negotiations for the U.S. to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPSE...
Reports that Thailand is interested in starting an international cartel of rice producing countries, the Organization of Rice Exporting Countries, should not be...
Like most Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), the U.S.-Korea FTA is a combination of major policy breakthroughs and work-in-progress. The agreement was reached becau...
With the Doha Round of WTO trade policy negotiations suspended, a logical question is what happens next. The Economic Ministers of the ten members of the Assoc...