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  • 16-Dec-2007 Times of India
    India, Hong Kong plan free trade agreement
    India and Hong Kong have initiated talks on a free trade agreement to promote bilateral trade and investment.
  • 16-Dec-2007 Bangkok Post
    Japan seeks to assure future through East Asia initiative
    Hiroyuki Ishige, director-general of Japan’s Trade Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, told me the other day that the size of Japan’s population peaked about two years ago, forcing the country to prepare for the consequences of a declining and ageing population. One measure is to expand the role of Japanese businesses and industries overseas because of slower growth in domestic opportunities due to the demographic factor.
  • 16-Dec-2007 Khaleej Times
    US set to finalise FTA, BIT after emergency
    "As soon as emergency is lifted and constitution is restored, the Bush administration would start finalising various issues with Pakistan, including Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and the setting up of Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) in Azad Kashmir and Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata),” a US embassy spokesperson, Ms Elizabeth Colton, said.
  • 16-Dec-2007 Fibre to Fashion
    IDB to support Peru in implementing FTA with US
    The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, announced that the Bank will assist the government of Peru in launching the free trade agreement (FTA) signed with the United States in Washington, DC.
  • 16-Dec-2007 Khaleej Times
    FTA poses challenges for Bahraini working women
    Working women in Bahrain are facing many challenges and female activists predict more hardship to come in their way after the full implementation of the Free Trade Agreement between Bahrain and the United States.
  • 16-Dec-2007
    India should seek mkt for services in trade with Korea: FICCI
    India must seek greater market access for professionals and service-providers in Korea when officials from the two sides meet here for negotiating the proposed bilateral trade pact, industry body FICCI said.
  • 16-Dec-2007
    Correa Warns on Dangers of FTA with US
    Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said that the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) are tremendously danger and a problem for our countries.
  • 14-Dec-2007 Tempo Real
    Mercosur plans to sign free trade agreement with Israel
    Mercosur is expected to sign a free trade agreement with Israel next week during the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay.
  • 14-Dec-2007 Merinews
    India’s trade surplus with Singapore reduced post-FTA
    India’s trade surplus with Singapore shrunk after the comprehensive economic cooperation agreement between the two countries came into force.
  • 14-Dec-2007 Prensa Latina
    Farmers demand NAFTA suspension
    Mexican national and regional rural organizations demanded on Tuesday that the government suspend the trade agreement with North America.
  • 13-Dec-2007 The Guardian
    Ghana joins rush to secure EU trade
    Ghana signed an interim trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, joining a rush among poor countries to safeguard exports to the world’s biggest trading bloc after preferential terms expire at the end of the year.
  • 13-Dec-2007 FT
    China and US to speed treaty on investing
    The US and China have agreed to accelerate talks on a bilateral investment treaty amid concern in Beijing that the Chinese are being blocked from buying into US companies and assets.
  • 13-Dec-2007 Asia Times
    China outwits the EU in Africa
    During the past several years, an increasing number of differences have arisen in the strategic partnership forged between China and the European Union. Among the many critical issues clouding the mutual agenda are differing policy approaches towards Africa.
  • 13-Dec-2007 Reuters
    S. Africa says "serious issues" remain in EU talks
    South Africa said on Wednesday that "serious issues" needed to be addressed in African nations’ trade talks with the European Union, but it did not rule out the possibility of reaching a comprehensive deal.
  • 12-Dec-2007 DNA
    Sowing a bitter harvest
    One outcome of the Indo-US deal on Agriculture appears to be the deregulation of the GM foods sector.
  • 12-Dec-2007 The Guardian
    Israeli, Palestinian businessmen urge trade talks
    Key members of the Israeli and Palestinian private sectors recommended in a joint study that peace negotiators adopt a "Free Trade Agreement Plus" (FTA Plus) as the basis for economic relations between Israel and any future Palestinian state.
  • 12-Dec-2007 EE Times
    Courting investors, South Korea seeks to move out of Japan’s shadow
    South Korea’s electronics industry is seeking to reduce its dependence on rival and chief supplier Japan while diversifying beyond its chip-manufacturing base to develop fresh intellectual property and new product categories.
  • 12-Dec-2007 The Hindu
    EU wants India to speed up FTA
    Expressing doubt over WTO talks making headway in the near future, Austria on Tuesday asked India to speed up free trade agreement with the European Union to enlarge markets for European and Indian business.
  • 12-Dec-2007 The Guardian
    Mexican sugar industry anxious ahead NAFTA opening
    Three weeks before the United States and Mexico lift the last barriers to trade in sweeteners, sugar mill owners and cane farmers south of the border are worried they are in poor shape to compete.
  • 12-Dec-2007 LIP
    Peru-US free trade agreement to enter into force in 2009
    The US-Peru free trade agreement is to enter into force January 1, 2009, said Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade, Mercedes Aráoz. The Minister explained, "Obviously we want to move faster but there is a lot of work we have to do with the US government to make things compatible."