Ag groups reinforced support for Japan in TPP, vow to increase participation in reaching agreement on sanitary and phyto-sanitary barriersIncreased exports resulting from a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement would create thousands of direct and indirect jobs, with the vast majority generated by Japan alone, ag stakeholders said in a press conference Mond

PTI/BONN: India and the European Union (EU) on Monday opened a new round of trade talks in an attempt to overcome their remaining differences, which have been holding back the signing of a long-awaited free trade agreement ( FTA).Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma held discussion with EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht at the European

A bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between Iceland and China was signed on April 15 in Beijing by Ossur Skarpheoinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland, and Gao Hucheng, China's Minister of Commerce, and witnessed by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir.The Iceland-China FTA is t

Lawmakers from key automaking states have expressed opposition to a proposed deal with Japan to reduce vehicle tariffs and loosen restrictions, Bloomberg reports.The deal, which allows Japan to join Pacific-region trade talks, doesn't do enough to indicate Japan will open its auto market to foreign competitors, Representative Sander Levin, D-Michigan, sai

Peru is illegally protecting its farmers against falls in global commodity markets, according to Guatemala, which has launched a challenge against Peru's policy at the World Trade Organization.Peru, which is one of the countries negotiating the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal, imposes an extra import levy on rice, sugar, corn, milk and

PTI/BERLIN: India and EU will hold a crucial meeting on the proposed free trade agreement tomorrow in Brussels to iron out the impediments in concluding of the bilateral pact.The meeting which is also seen as a last ditch effort to resolve the differences before India gets into the election mode where the manoeuvring of decisions regarding the pact will b

NEW DELHI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- India is concerned that a free trade agreement with the European Union could jeopardize the country's pubic health, as such an agreement with EU would lead to a restriction of supply of generic medicines in the country and abroad as well, according to local media reports.There are genuine concerns that the Free Trade Agreem

The United States will scrap auto tariffs gradually under an extended period under a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact, the Japanese government said in a statement after the two countries agreed on a deal that will allow Tokyo to take part in talks on the Asia-Pacific trade agreement.The bilateral agreement brings Japan closer to entering TP

The recent proliferation of regional FTAs is good news for the parties involved.But FTAs cannot be substitutes for a global solution in world trade.