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Stop the mad pursuit of bilateral free trade and economic partnership agreements!
26-Jan-2005 IMC QC
We - farmers, fisherfolks, rural women, workers from the formal and informal sectors, and NGOs belonging to the Stop the New Round! Coalition - express our strong opposition to the Philippines government’s mad pursuit of bilateral free trade agreements particularly with Japan, China and the USA.
US-Middle East Free Trade Coalition congratulates Moroccan Parliament
26-Jan-2005 National Foreign Trade Council
As an important lynchpin between Europe, Africa and the Middle East, access to the Moroccan market is essential for the U.S. banking, insurance and telecommunications industries.
Trade pact proposal has US upside
25-Jan-2005 NWAnews
A proposal to liberalize US trade with six Central American and Caribbean nations has received broad support from US agricultural groups. But the fate of the US-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement remains uncertain.
CARICOM considers FTA with US, Canada
22-Jan-2005 Nassau Guardian
As the outlook for the Free Trade Area of the Americas continues to be shrouded in uncertainty, CARICOM is looking to bilateral Free Trade Agreements as a means of improving market access for countries in the region.
Morocco’s parliament approves FTA with US
20-Jan-2005 Khaleej Times
Morocco’s parliament approved a free-trade accord (FTA) with the United States, paving the way for its implementation in two months and bringing Washington closer to its goal of sealing a free trade agreement covering most of the Middle East and North Africa by 2013.
Pumping for Mideast business
20-Jan-2005 Forbes
While the media and the public focus on the deadly turmoil in Iraq, business lobbyists have turned their attention to another side of the fragile Middle East region.
UAE is analysing impact of free trade agreement
20-Jan-2005 MENAFN
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Finance and Industry has contracted an international consultancy firm, Maxwell Stamp, to undertake an impact analysis of the effects a US-UAE Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the local economy.
US manufacturers group to call for FTA with S. Korea
20-Jan-2005 Yonhap
After picking South Korea, India, Malaysia, New Zealand and Egypt as potential FTA partners, the National Association of Manufacturers of America (NAM) will soon recommend the Bush administration and US lawmakers to seek free trade accords with the countries.
US yet to act on FTA amendments
19-Jan-2005
The United States has yet to follow through on threats to challenge amendments made to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
FTA may force debtors to reform
19-Jan-2005
Banking liberalisation under the Thai-US free trade agreement will affect not only local banks, but also debtors, according to Twatchai Yongkittikul, the secretary-general of the Thai Bankers’ Association.
New head of AMCHAM pushes treaty on investment
18-Jan-2005
In his first address as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, Wayne Chumley said yesterday that the United States and Korea needed to make progress on a free trade agreement this year.
Free trade: Time to take your partners
17-Jan-2005
Queensland could reap $1b a year from the Free Trade Agreement with the US, but it’s not going to be easy.
UAE, Oman must make new move for FTA, says US
17-Jan-2005 Khaleej Times
The United Arab Emirates and Oman must make new efforts to qualify for proposed free trade pacts with the United States, a US official said on Friday in response to objections raised by labour groups.
Bill Day: Bring back the multilateral pact
16-Jan-2005
Now that Trade Representative Robert Zoellick is moving to the State Department as Condoleezza Rice’s deputy, U.S. trade policy may see a shift from small bilateral pacts back to big, sweeping multilateral trade agreements.
End the Saudi-Bahrain FTA row
16-Jan-2005
As a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizen, it is extremely disappointing to note that the controversy surrounding Saudi Arabia’s objections to the Bahrain-US free trade agreement (FTA) is threatening the future of the GCC economic integration.
Egypt, US consider free trade talks
15-Jan-2005
The United States and Egypt are studying the possibility of opening talks for Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 2005, a U.S. Trade Representative release said.
Adoption par les députés marocains de l’accord de libre-échange avec les Etats-Unis
14-Jan-2005 Yabiladi.com
L’accord de libre-échange conclu entre le Maroc et les Etats-Unis en 2004 a été adopté le 13 janvier à Rabat par la Chambre des députés.
Business group calls for dynamic global trade policy
13-Jan-2005 Business Roundtable
In a white paper released today, Business Roundtable called on Congress and the Bush Administration to continue the nation’s history of economic growth through liberalized trade and investment policies by pursuing a vigorous international trade agenda for 2005.
Zoellick plies a new trade
13-Jan-2005
Although not part of the new right’s militarist and neo-conservative camps, Zoellick’s personal arrogance, his unilateralism, and his loyalty to Bush and the Republican Party’s new radical elite make him a perfect fit for Bush’s new foreign policy team.
FTA: Facing The Apocalypse?
12-Jan-2005
The graffiti on the walls in Quito ask if the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that the US is pushing on Colombia, Peru and Ecuador means that our days are numbered.