18-Sep-2006
Canada Agri-Food Trade Alliance
Canada Agri-Food Trade Alliance Comments on Free Trade Negotiations with Korea, House Standing Committee on International Trade, June 14 2006.
18-Sep-2006
New Straits Times
Some 11,700 tobacco farmers in Malaysia - most of them in Kelantan - will be affected come 2010 when the original Asean members of Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore enact zero tariff rates on virtually all imports.
13-Sep-2006
New Straits Times
Foreign food products are making their way into the country under the Free Trade Agreements and market liberalisation, while Malaysian products are struggling to penetrate foreign markets.
13-Sep-2006
Stop CAFTA Coalition
Over the past four months members of the CAFTA Monitoring Working Group have coordinated the
drafting of this report with friends and allies in Central America. While it is far too early to detail
long-term trends in labor, textiles, agricultural practice and policy, investment patterns, services, and
environmental consequences of CAFTA, in this report we have looked primarily at the process of
implementing CAFTA since January 1, 2006 and some early trends and concerns that have emerged,
many of which we will continue to monitor.
13-Sep-2006
Manila Standard
A free trade pact with Japan has given Philippine agricultural products like sugar wider access to the world’s second-largest economy, an agriculture official said yesterday.