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  • 6-Jan-2006
    Thai-US FTA talks ’’unconstitutional’’, senate panel says
    The Senate committee on foreign affairs will petition the Constitutional Court on Tuesday to seek a review of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) proceedings, claiming they have contravened the constitution.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Korea, US agree to start FTA negotiations
    Korea and the U.S. could start negotiations for a free trade agreement in April, an insider said Friday. The government is reportedly thinking of announcing the expected benefits of an FTA in President Roh Moo-hyun’s New Year’s meeting with the press around Jan. 17. The FTA could be concluded around next March after a year or so of negotiations, the source added.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Thai-US FTA: Kraisak turns up heat on Thaksin
    Opposition to a proposed Thai-US free-trade pact is threatening to escalate into a political time bomb, as a senator yesterday moved to challenge the deal’s constitutional legitimacy and called for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to step down.
  • 6-Jan-2006 Asia Pulse
    S. Korea, India adopt final framework on FTA talks
    South Korea and India adopted a final framework Friday to begin talks on a free trade agreement, Seoul officials said.
  • 6-Jan-2006 Manager
    IPR debate centers on cheap drugs
    The heated debate over intellectual property is one of the sticking points in the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Thailand and the United States, which are scheduled to resume next week.
  • 6-Jan-2006 PhRMA
    PhRMA statement on US-Egypt free trade agreement
    PhRMA believes that a strong FTA is in the interests of Egyptian patients as well as the business community.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Free and fair trade
    TWO new developments have raised alarm bells about the free trade agreement between Australia and the US.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    At last, a done deal
    Days before 2005 closed, Egypt and Turkey finally signed a free trade agreement (FTA) the negotiations of which began in 1997.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    OSG asks SC to reverse NAIA 3 ruling
    The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) yesterday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision allowing the government to take over Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) only after payment of an initial P3.002 billion to the Philippine International Air Terminals Co. (PIATCO) representing the proffered value of the facilities.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Rachid strikes trade deal with Turkey
    A high-powered Turkish delegation, headed by President Ahmed Necdet Sezer, arrived in Cairo last month to sign a free-trade deal with Egypt in what an editorial in the Turkish Daily News said could be a “turning point in relations between two regional powers.”
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Chian Mai meeting: 10,000 expected to protests US free-trade talks
    Farm workers, HIV/Aids, poverty NGOs vow to disrupt event. The sixth round of free-trade talks with the United States next week in Chiang Mai will face the wrath about 10,000 protesters from 12 special-interest groups which have vowed to rally throughout the five-day meeting.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Ministry decries failure to benefit from trade pacts
    RELEGATION of the trade ministry to peripheral roles in anticipation that the private sector will drive development has made Uganda fail to benefit from regional and bilateral trade associations.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Bilateral trade deals to end, predicts expert
    Country-specific trade agreements might finally give way to an integrated trade agreement or organisation, indicated Abdul Quader Shaikh, Senior Economist, United States (US) Department of Commerce at a seminar on the WTO today.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Done like a dinner on free trade deal
    TO laugh or to cry? That is the question. Do you laugh at the increasingly ludicrous attempts by defenders of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement to explain away the results of the FTA’s operation since it came into effect on January 1 last year?
  • 5-Jan-2006
    FTA ’a dud deal’
    There are calls today for Australia to scrap the free trade agreement.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Civic groups to protest at Thai-US FTA meeting in Chiang Mai
    Eleven civic groups plan demonstrations at the venue where the Thai and US governments will hold the sixth round of FTA negotiation next week, their leaders said Thursday.
  • 5-Jan-2006 Khaleej Times
    Pakistan, US to hold final round of BIT talks
    A high powered US delegation is arriving here on 18 of this month to hold talks with the Pakistani authorities to finalise the BIT, in the absence of which, Washington was unprepared to sign Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Pakistan.
  • 5-Jan-2006 ABC
    US sugar farmers say they will strongy oppose any changes to the FTA
    The US Sugar Alliance, representing cane and beet farmers, says it will lobby strongly against any further opening of the US market to Australian sugar. Meantime, there are calls today for Australia to scrap the free trade agreement.
  • 5-Jan-2006 Arab News
    GCC-India FTA talks give fillip to ‘Asian Community’
    The regional economic diversification plan gets a boost with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and India - which signed a framework agreement for economic cooperation in August 2004 - announcing final negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) starting January 2006 to thrash out niggling issues like rules of origin and differential tariffs.
  • 5-Jan-2006 The Nation
    Thai-US FTA talks: Deadlock looks set to be broken
    Thai finance officials will for the first time make an offer to open up the country’s financial services, which should make or break the proposed Thai-US free-trade agreement (FTA) during talks next week, says a Thai finance source.