DUBAI - Defying a challenging economic climate, Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone (RAK FTZ) on Monday announced that it registered over 2,000 companies in 2011, which represents 17 per cent growth over 2010.
At stake is an agreement that would create one of the world's largest free-trade zones by population - covering 1.8bn, or more than a quarter, of the world's people.
Hopes of India and the European Union striking a free trade deal at a summit this week are fading fast, with differences over duties on cars and market access for software and service companies standing in the way of an accord.
By Sebastian Moffett and Matthias Williams BRUSSELS/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hopes of India and the European Union striking a free trade deal at a summit this week are fading fast, with differences over duties ...
PM Julia Gillard is refusing to put a new timeline on Australia's free trade negotiations with South Korea.
New Zealand expects Indonesia to improve its trade and investment climate to allow both countries to reap greater benefits from a recently implemented free trade agreement (FTA) among the Association .....
The governments of Indonesia and Pakistan plan to follow up their PTA by discussing the conclusion of a free trade agreement [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday the United States and Georgia were exploring the possibility of a free trade agreement to expand commerce and strengthen trade relations. In a White House meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Obama said the two countries had agreed to start a dialogue that would look at various trading options "including the possibility ...
Nearly five years after the Bush administration first negotiated free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, revised versions of those pacts were finally approved by the U.S. Congress last fall and will be implemented during 2012. Although global companies reacted with an anti-climactic sense of relief, many trade analysts welcomed the new opportunities that the pacts will open ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron has backed the idea of a free trade deal between the European Union and the U.S., claiming that a trans-Atlantic pact could deliver a much-needed boost to global commerce.