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Pakistan and Singapore to hold talks on FTA soon
18-Aug-2005
Pakistan and Singapore will formally initiate 3-day technical parleys on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on August 24, a senior government official told Online here on Thursday.
India’s new investment norm
17-Aug-2005 Rediff
The tax holiday provided under the India-Singapore agreement, which Indian companies may take advantage of, is part of a trend that will make it increasingly difficult to tax capital in almost any country.
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (2005)
16-Aug-2005
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement. Brunei Darussalam, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore (P4)
Saudi, Kuwait want India to give ’S’pore treatment’
16-Aug-2005 Economic Times
India’s decision to grant tax sops to Singapore-based FIIs under the comprehensive economic cooperation agreement (CECA) has prompted oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to pitch for similar concessions in the double taxation avoidance treaties that are being negotiated with Indian tax authorities.
S. Korea, Singapore sign FTA
4-Aug-2005 Xinhua
South Korea and Singapore formally signed a free trade agreement (FTA) here Thursday, reported the South Korean Yonhap News Agency.
Korea-Singapore FTA (2005)
4-Aug-2005 MITI
CECA and free trade agreements
27-Jul-2005 PIB
A Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between India and Singapore has been signed on the 29th June in New Delhi by the Prime Ministers of two countries.
FTA with Singapore to benefit India: NCAER
25-Jul-2005
Changing its views on India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (ISCECA), the Delhi-based think-tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has said that India will be benefitted from ‘plus’ component of the free trade agreement (FTA).
FTA signed: NZ, Chile, Singapore and Brunei to end tariffs
19-Jul-2005
Government officials today signed off on a multi-nation free trade agreement that will end all trade tariffs among New Zealand, Chile, Singapore and Brunei by 2015.
What does India-Singapore agreement hold in store?
6-Jul-2005 Economic Times
The India-Singapore CECA which will be effective from August 1, ’05 is reckoned to be forerunner for similar such agreements which are now being finalised and are close to fruition.
India-Singapore CECA (2005)
30-Jun-2005 Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry
India, Singapore sign CECA to boost investments
29-Jun-2005 India Daily
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Wednesday, signed the much awaited Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement (CECA).
S’pore pact gets Cabinet nod
21-Jun-2005
India has agreed to provide a series of tariff concessions to Singapore under the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which was approved by the Union Cabinet today.
Singapore and Qatar close to ink FTA
11-Jun-2005
Singapore and Qatar are close to signing a free trade agreement after ending their final round of negotiations yesterday, the city-state’s trade ministry said.
Investment regime takes shape
11-Jun-2005 Seeurope.net
Investment rules are not on the agenda of the current Doha Round of global trade talks. Instead, bilateral, regional and other level agreements are building a de facto international regime for investment.
India hopeful of FTA with S’pore soon
6-Jun-2005
The South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) is expected to be signed by January 2006, while India is hopeful of a free trade agreement with Singapore very soon, said S.N. Menon, Secretary in the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Brunei too in historic free-trade agreement
5-Jun-2005
Brunei Darussalam together with Chile, New Zealand and Singapore are now the founding members of the first ever Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement.
P4 Economic Partnership Agreement - key outcomes
5-Jun-2005 Scoop
Press release from NZ government outlining key features of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore.
The rise and rise of Asian trade
4-Jun-2005 Business Times
A mammoth regional grouping involving Asean and other countries and groups is in the works.
Media info note: Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement
3-Jun-2005 Singapore FTAs
On 3 Jun 05, the trade ministers of Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore announced the substantive conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (“Trans-Pacific SEP”) on the sidelines of the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) meeting in Jeju (Korea).