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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.
Divide and conquer: The FTAA, US trade strategy and public services in the Americas
20-Jan-2005 PSI
Documents the progress of “competitive liberalization,” a strategy advanced by the United States Trade Representative to establish a network of bilateral international trade agreements as steps toward the multilateral GATS agreement.
Tokyo tries dual trade diplomacy
20-Jan-2005 Asahi Shumbun
The government wants to have it both ways with its trade diplomacy this year, focusing on bilateral free trade agreements in the first half and multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization in the second.
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.
Israel seeks investment treaty with Chaebol
20-Jan-2005 Korea Times
Israel has expressed keen interest in forming state-corporation bilateral investment pacts with Samsung and LG apart from the inter-state BIT between Seoul and Jerusalem.
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.
Ethio-Turkey joint commission negotiates on FTA
20-Jan-2005 AllAfrica.com
The Ethio-Turkey Economic Commission has taken deliberations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Malaysia-India joint study on CECA and possible FTA
19-Jan-2005
Malaysia and India have agreed to undertake a joint feasibility study on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which includes the possibility of having Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two 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.
ECC approves Free Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka
19-Jan-2005
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet in Pakistan has approved the signing of a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka.
Sub-region integration a challenge to FTAA
19-Jan-2005 IPS
The fifth annual World Social Forum will take place Jan. 26-31 in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre amidst an upsurge in Latin American sub-regional integration efforts, bolstered by the obvious failure of the project to create the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
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.
Regional, bilateral deals seen as impeding trade
18-Jan-2005
Far from being a stepping stone to freer trade, the NAFTA and other regional and bilateral trade deals have created a conflicting web of preferential arrangements that may be impeding rather than spurring trade, the authors of a report commissioned by the World Trade Organization have concluded.
Vaile defends trade deals
18-Jan-2005
Trade Minister Mark Vaile today defended Australia’s free trade deals with foreign countries after a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report said such agreements could be discriminatory.
Korea, Israel to push for FTA: Israeli minister
18-Jan-2005
South Korea and Israel are set to hold formal discussions on a Free Trade Agreement in a joint committee meeting next year, Israel’s Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday.
WTO hampered by ’spaghetti bowl’ deals
18-Jan-2005 FT
The World Trade Organisation is being undermined by the intransigence and short-sightedness of its member countries, according to the report of a high-level commission released on Monday.
Tokyo in push on trade deals
17-Jan-2005
Japan will push to conclude a basic bilateral trade agreement with Thailand and Malaysia within the next few months, according to a senior trade official, who denied suggestions from a member of his own ministry that talks with those two countries had stalled.
Korean carmakers prepare plans for AFTA
17-Jan-2005
South Korean carmakers Hyundai and KIA are considering setting up a production base in Southeast Asia to take advantage of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).