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1,200 march to urge dropping of intellectual property from US-Thai deal
6-Apr-2005 Bangkok Post
More than 1,200 Thai farmers, slum dwellers and HIV/Aids patients from 30 civic groups staged a six-kilometre walkathon yesterday from a temple in Jomthien to the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel to drive home their demand that intellectual property rights be removed from free trade talks with the United States.
Towards a US-Indonesia free trade agreement
6-Apr-2005 CSIS
This May 2004 paper examines the main issues in designing an FTA between Indonesia and the United States.
CAFTA passage by US Congress far from certain
5-Apr-2005
Supporters of the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have attempted to create the impression that the United States Congress is likely to ratify CAFTA in the coming session. This is a concentrated effort to spread disinformation about the true nature of the situation in Washington.
Silence on Thai-US FTA broken: 1,500 people said NO to FTA!
5-Apr-2005
It took over a thousand and five hundred people blowing their whistle for the Thai government to come out and listen to its people. But did Mr. Nitya Pibulsongkram, head of the Thai negotiating team for the Thai-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), actually hear them?
US-Thai free trade negotiations: There’s little trust in trade talks
5-Apr-2005 Bangkok Post
Negotiators say the FTA will be open to comment, but critics want their say now before it is too late
Businessmen air view on UAE’s FTA talks with US
4-Apr-2005
Representatives from the business and the academic segments have discussed the strong debated issue, the agreement, including real objectives behind it, probable local and regional advantages and disadvantages and the UAE’s readiness for signing such agreement.
Thai-US FTA will make medicine unaffordable
4-Apr-2005
A Democrat Party MP has expressed fresh concerns over the possible social and economic implications of the free trade agreement currently being negotiated between Thailand and the US.
US-Thailand TIFA (2002)
4-Apr-2005
US-Malaysia TIFA (2004)
4-Apr-2005
FTA Watch protests trade pact
3-Apr-2005
An advocacy group opposed to bilateral free trade agreements, FTA Watch and several other non-government organisations protested in front of the US Embassy in Bangkok on Friday, ahead of the third round of trade talks scheduled to take place in Pattaya next week.
Indonesia, US revive bilateral trade and investment talks
3-Apr-2005 Jakarta Post
Indonesia and the United States met and revived bilateral talks on trade and investment here on Friday — a move that could lead to free trade negotiations between the two countries.
FTA talks, and the right to know
2-Apr-2005 Bangkok Post
The third round of talks towards a bilateral free trade agreement between the US and Thailand opens in Pattaya on Monday, against vocal clamouring for public participation in the process. The Thaksin administration would do better to absorb the decibels from FTA critics by opening rather than closing the door on them.
Warning on cost of vitamins under US FTA
1-Apr-2005 The Age
The cost of vitamins could rise by 8% under the Australia-United States free trade agreement, vitamin makers have warned.
CAFTA’s profit motive
31-Mar-2005 Washington Post
The fundamental reality of most of the US’ trade accords is that they are designed to maximize corporate profits no matter the cost to the peoples of the signatory nations.
Sandinistas say FTA bad for health
31-Mar-2005 Prensa Latina
Sandinista National Liberation Front legislators will present a minority report against ratification of the FTA (Free Trade Agreement) with the United States, Nicaraguan Congresswoman Alba Palacio said.
Thai govt urged to remove medicines from FTA deals
31-Mar-2005 TNA
Non governmental organizations (NGOs) yesterday made an impassioned plea to the government to remove the subject of medicines from negotiations on the proposed Thai-US free trade area (FTA), warning that Thai patients suffering from chronic conditions could be hit with sky-high costs for medication.
USTR 2005 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
31-Mar-2005 USTR
Office of the US Trade Representative has released its 2005 report on country-by-country barriers to US global trade interests.
Mideast building trade ties with US
29-Mar-2005 LA Times
The Bush administration’s plan: to negotiate a series of trade agreements that would eventually fuse one of the world’s most economically and politically unstable regions into a giant free-trade zone.
UAE to only amend existing labour law
24-Mar-2005 Khaleej Times
Dr Khalid Mohammed Al Khazraji, UAE Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, denied reports that the country would be enacting a new labour law, stressing that the UAE Labour Law No. 8 of 1980 is undergoing several amendments. He also denied any link between the amendments under way and proposals submitted by the US delegation in the context of the US-UAE FTA negotiations.
Indigenous groups against the FTA
23-Mar-2005
On March 6, six indigenous communities in the Cauca valley in southwest Colombia voted in a referendum to reject the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States.