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Pak commerce minister arrives April 19
28-Mar-2006
The commerce minister of Pakistan will make a three-day visit to Dhaka from April 19 to attend the Safta Ministerial Council (SMC) meeting and initiate talks on signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh.
NZ to seek FTA talks with Arab countries
28-Mar-2006
New Zealand is to seek negotiations on a free trade agreement with a trade bloc of oil rich Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia.
’Spring struggle’: Industrial peace determines nation’s economic future
28-Mar-2006
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) has announced it would stage a general strike in April 3-14 in protest of parliament’s passage of a bill that labor thinks unfavorable to irregular workers and the government’s "labor road map," followed by walkouts of some industrial unions. KCTU also opposes the Korea-US free trade agreement, while calling for the provision of free medical and educational services.
Pakistan refuses to give MFN status to India even after Safta ratification
28-Mar-2006 Financial Express
Pakistan has decided not to give most favoured nation (MFN) status to India, even under the recently ratified South Asia free trade agreement (Safta), and has indicated that it will continue to trade with the country on the basis of a positive list.
Ecuadorean team eyes trade deal with US this week
28-Mar-2006 Reuters
Ecuador could reach a free trade deal with the United States by the end of this week if the two sides can resolve difficult agricultural issues, Ecuadorean negotiators said on Monday.
Colombia and Guatemala plan free trade talks in June
28-Mar-2006 Bloomberg
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said in January the South American nation would negotiate free trade agreements with Guatemala and El Salvador.
Colombia FTA could help sell more US rice
28-Mar-2006
The USA Rice Federation says the new US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement could mean increased sales of US rice - thanks, in part, to the persistence of the U.S. Trade Representative’s chief agricultural negotiator Richard Crowder.
Equitable trade and Southern Africa: A cookie cutter approach will cost lives and livelihoods
28-Mar-2006 AFSC
Statement of the US-SACU FTA Working Group
Possible Korea-Japan FTA could hurt conglomerates
27-Mar-2006
Even big Korean conglomerates may feel the blow if Seoul and Tokyo ink a free trade agreement, according to a report by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.
Pakistan uncertain on SAFTA
27-Mar-2006
Pakistan remains unsure of India’s role in the South Asian Free Trade Agreement as bilateral economic cooperation talks begin Monday.
Civil society, trade and the US-ROK relationship
27-Mar-2006
Remarks by Alexander Vershbow, US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
On trade, the US and China need to go global
27-Mar-2006
With President Hu Jintao due to visit the United States, there is an urgent need for a cease-fire in the war of words between China and the United States over trade.
2006 SME survey to address overseas competition, FTAs
27-Mar-2006
SINGAPORE: This year’s SME development survey will take on a different focus. The annual study will delve deeper into concerns among Singapore’s small- and medium-sized enterprises which are related to increasing competition overseas and the impact of free trade pacts.
Report considers DR hastily plunged into CAFTA trade accord
27-Mar-2006 Dominican Today
Central American countries had negotiated every issue, and the Dominican Republic simply adhered to all that had already been convened.
FTA to cut auto sales
27-Mar-2006 Asia Times Online
A free trade agreement between South Korea and Japan is expected to reduce domestic sales of local carmakers by up to 226,000 units annually.
GCC, India likely to sign FTA next year
27-Mar-2006 MENAFN
India’s minister of commerce and industry said that GCC countries and India possibly will sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by early next year.
Rally against partnership agreement
27-Mar-2006 CBC
Members of the islands public sector union and other Barbadians will be showing their dissent towards the most recent process of negotiations between Barbados and Cariforum countries this week.
Indigenous-led uprising challenges FTA, US domination
27-Mar-2006 Workers World
Ecuadorian Indigenous organizations are in the leadership of the most recent uprising in that country, which began on March 13. Tired of being lied to, exploited and excluded, they have taken on the courageous road of challenging the Free Trade Agreement that is secretly, behind closed doors, being negotiated with the United States by President Alfredo Palacios.
Malaysian activists launch campaign against free trade deal with US
27-Mar-2006 AFP
Malaysian activists over the weekend launched a campaign against a planned bilateral free trade deal with the US, saying it could undermine job and food security and the nation’s economy.
The US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA): The intellectual property provisions
26-Mar-2006 USTR
Report of the US government’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC-15)