Everything will be on the table when US and EU negotiators restart talks on ambitious transatlantic free-trade deal with a new wind in their sales, Washington's top trade negotiator said Wednesday.

Everything possible will be covered in the coming US-European Union talks for a free-trade deal announced by President Barack Obama, Washington's top trade negotiator said Wednesday.

The EU and the United States are to negotiate the biggest free trade agreement ever, a global "game-changer," boosting growth and providing much-needed jobs, European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said Wednesday.

The United States and Europe will launch talks on what would be the world's largest free trade zone, US President Barack Obama declared in his State of the Union address.

Scotland should keep the pound if it votes to leave the United Kingdom in the 2014 referendum, First Minister Alex Salmond's economic advisers concluded in a report due out Monday.

Two days of face-to-face meetings between Canada's trade minister and his EU counterpart, ending late Thursday, failed to break a deadlock on the last stumbling blocks to reaching a free trade pact.

Two days of face-to-face meetings between Canada's trade minister and his EU counterpart, ending late Thursday, failed to break a deadlock on the last stumbling blocks to reaching a free trade pact.

US and European Union negotiators made some headway Wednesday toward a trans-Atlantic free trade pact, a person close to the talks told AFP.

The last of a record nine candidates to lead the World Trade Organization finished defending their candidacies on Thursday, but the real campaign is only just getting started.

Laos joins the World Trade Organisation on Saturday, a major step for the small communist country but one that experts say may not break its powerful neighbours' stranglehold over its economy just yet.

Four candidates made their case for the top job at the World Trade Organization on Wednesday three of them from developing countries.

The fight for the top job at the World Trade Organization, which oversees global trade practices and efforts to reduce tariff barriers, goes into a second day on Wednesday with four candidates making their case, three of them from developing countries.

Candidates from nine mainly developing nations face off this week for the job of reviving stalled global trade talks as the new head of the World Trade Organization.

Cuba formally assumed the presidency of a key Latin American group here Monday, scoring a major diplomatic coup at a summit at which it urged regional integration and independence from the United States.

Latin American and European leaders agreed to boost bilateral trade as they ended a two-day summit overshadowed by a nightclub fire that killed at least 233 people in Brazil.

Spain's bid to join the Pacific Alliance illustrates the growing clout of the trade association between Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, a new rival to the South American trading bloc Mercosur.

European and Latin American leaders have pledged to shun protectionism and boost their strategic partnership to foster free trade and sustainable development based on close international cooperation.

Leaders of crisis-hit Europe kicked off a two-day summit Saturday with their counterparts from resource-rich Latin America, seeking closer trade ties but also assurances against protectionism.

European leaders kicked off a two-day summit with their Latin American counterparts here Saturday seeking closer trade ties but also assurances on free trade and investment protection.

Leaders of crisis-hit Europe are meeting their counterparts from resource-rich Latin America in Santiago Saturday to press for closer trade ties to spur global growth.