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Free trade agreement: impact in Thailand
6-Sep-2005
This booklet by FTA Watch is aimed at disseminating information to international civil society for the purpose of sharing the analyses and experience of the FTA struggle in Thailand.
UPS keen to cash in on possible China-Australia FTA
31-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
The president of United Parcel Service (UPS) said today a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and China could deliver the logistics giant a similar surge in business that followed the signing of the Australia-US FTA in May last year.
Academic: China to be free trade driver
24-Aug-2005 China Daily
China is likely to eclipse the World Trade Organization and regional market-opening pacts to become the main driver of freer global trade in the 21st century, a prominent trade academic said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
Korea-China FTA talks gather steam but a sticky path ahead
23-Aug-2005
As economic interdependence between Korea and China grows significantly, government officials and economists find it more and more necessary to form a free trade agreement to strengthen bilateral economic relations.
Asia/FTA brings hope to poorest region
20-Aug-2005
Left behind for years while China’s economy was taking off, the Guangxi Zhuangzu autonomous region is finally showing signs of life thanks to Beijing’s free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2002.
Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (2003)
20-Aug-2005 Ministry of Commerce of the PRC
FTA with China likely to get a fresh look
18-Aug-2005 Financial Express
Indicating that the idea of a free trade agreement with China has not been abandoned, the Indian government has begun a fresh exercise to explore the pros and cons of such an accord.
All talk, no action at FTA meeting
18-Aug-2005
AUSTRALIA and China are unlikely to start real negotiations for a free trade agreement this year, and it could take a long time to end up with a result that tackled "behind the border" issues, a senior trade official has warned.
Australian firms raise concerns over FTA with China
18-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
Australian companies have raised serious concerns they may not be able to surmount Chinese regulations and restrictions ahead of the first in-depth free trade negotiations between the two countries.
Indonesia, China find love
17-Aug-2005 Asia Times
China’s sustained growth will depend on how well it manages its political and trade relationships. Acquiring concessions and investing directly in natural-resource-based projects in Indonesia makes a great deal of sense for China.
Can CAFTA save textile and apparel producers?
16-Aug-2005 EPI
The notion that 283,000 textile and apparel jobs will be created in Central America as a result of CAFTA is a pipedream.
Free trade deal with Chile in the pipeline
16-Aug-2005 China Daily
China is expected to ink its first free trade agreement (FTA) with a single country this year: Chile.
Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (2003)
16-Aug-2005 Trade & Industry Department, Government of Hong Kong SAR
CEPA Legal Text
Downer’s Asia trade vision
16-Aug-2005 Herald Sun
The Federal Government wants to establish a powerful free trade bloc with Asia, giving Australia unprecedented economic access to almost half the world’s population.
East Asian Free Trade Agreement (EAFTA): The road to better quality life?
15-Aug-2005 AIM
Countries in East Asia that are parties to, or in the process of negotiating, one or more free trade arrangements not only with countries within the region but outside the region as well, are looming to take the “hub and spoke” characteristic — for example, ASEAN-China (2010), ASEAN-Japan (2012), and ASEAN-Korea, and Japan-Singapore (2002) and Japan-Philippines. Whether ASEAN would be the hub or spoke remains to be seen.
China-ASEAN FTA: trade in goods (2004)
15-Aug-2005 ASEAN Secretariat
China-ASEAN FTA: framework agreement (2002)
15-Aug-2005 ASEAN Secretariat
First round of trade talks with China from Aug 15
13-Aug-2005
The first round of negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement between Pakistan and China is scheduled to be held on August 15 and 16 at Urumqi, China.
ASEAN and China on track to sign free-trade deal by 2013
13-Aug-2005 AFP
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Friday said a free trade agreement with China will be signed by 2013, and that Malaysia’s exports to China surged 25 percent to a record high last year.
FTA to strengthen M’sia-China trade
12-Aug-2005
Malaysia’s ties with the economic powerhouse of China are set to strengthen further with the implementation of the Asean-China Free Trade Area (FTA), Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Friday.