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  • 20-Apr-2008 Emirates Business 24/7
    Emirates persists on US trade agreement
    The UAE has taken a second route to an FTA with the US after failing to meet the time frame originally established by the Trade Promotion Authority granted by Congress: the Tifa-Plus (Trade and Investment Framework Agreement) process, which provides a framework for further discussions on the FTA and on short-term issues.
  • 20-Apr-2008 China Daily
    Handled with tact, FTAs can do what WTO can’t
    Compared with a multilateral organization like the WTO, FTAs are much more convenient for China in several aspects.
  • 19-Apr-2008
    Dealing with the Proliferation of Bilateral Trade Agreements
    In this paper, we consider the various options proposed in dealing with the spaghetti bowl, and assess their ability to do so.
  • 19-Apr-2008 AFP
    US-SKorea free trade pact still in limbo after beef deal
    The United States and South Korea may have ended a longstanding row over beef but the headway seems insufficient to convince the Democratic-controlled Congress to ratify a free trade agreement between the two allies.
  • 19-Apr-2008 USTR
    USTR fact sheet on opening South Korea to US beef
    The United States and Korea concluded an agreement on April 18, 2008 to fully reopen South Korea’s market to all US beef and beef products irrespective of whether or not the FTA is ratified
  • 18-Apr-2008 Reuters
    Businesses warily eye Democrats’ trade position
    As the race to select a US Democratic presidential nominee drags on, corporate chieftains and some trade groups are raising concerns about the candidates’ free trade positions.
  • 18-Apr-2008 Washington Post
    South Korea relaxes US beef import rules
    South Korea on Friday agreed to open up to U.S. beef imports after Washington pledged to raise safety standards, boosting prospects for a sweeping trade deal ahead of a summit between leaders of the allies later in the day.
  • 18-Apr-2008
    Human rights vow over trade talks
    Human rights issues will be high on the agenda in negotiations between the European Union and the GCC on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a senior official declared in Bahrain last night.
  • 18-Apr-2008
    Emirates persists on US trade agreement
    The United States has not dropped the ball on a free-trade agreement with the UAE, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, told delegates at the Middle East-Asia Leadership Forum in Dubai.
  • 18-Apr-2008
    Handled with tact, FTAs can do what WTO can’t
    On April 7, China and New Zealand signed a free trade agreement (FTA) covering trade in goods and services as well as investment, making it the first FTA reached by China with a developed country.
  • 18-Apr-2008 FPIP
    Food safety on the butcher’s block
    The United States is using bilateral trade agreements to arm-twist weaker countries into accepting its food safety standards as a tool to expand the market control of US corporations. South Korea is the latest victim.
  • 18-Apr-2008 Pacific Network on Globalisation
    Pacific trade ministers slam EU Trade Commissioner Mandelson
    New letters show extent of dissent among Pacific trade ministers as ministers accuse top EU trade official of being "domineering" and using divide and rule tactics to split the region.
  • 17-Apr-2008
    Trade dept backs proposal for trade rep office
    A proposal to create an Office of the Philippine Trade Representative (OPTR) is being supported by the Department of Trade and Industry as a means to help strengthen the country’s capability to negotiate external trade.
  • 17-Apr-2008
    Free trade agreement not to blame - Cullen
    The Government was stung by suggestions yesterday that its much vaunted free trade agreement with China was linked to the loss of 430 jobs in Fisher and Paykel’s Mosgiel dishdrawer plant and hit back at the company.
  • 17-Apr-2008 Scoop
    A fairly thorough analysis of the NZ-China FTA
    China will now be seeking to extrapolate figures upwards in every other developed country FTA — starting with Australia — into very significant numbers, based on what we, with our tiny population, were willing to concede.
  • 17-Apr-2008 Korea Times
    Lee to link US beef import to visa waiver
    President Lee Myung-bak is expected to promise a full opening of the domestic beef market to the United States in exchange for U.S. authorization of South Koreans to tour the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
  • 17-Apr-2008 Oxfam GB
    EU Free Trade Agreements Manual
    Eight briefings on the European Union’s approach to Free Trade Agreements published jointly by ActionAid, Christian Aid, and Oxfam
  • 17-Apr-2008 Dawn
    New free trade accord with China soon: Musharraf
    President Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday that Pakistan and China were close to signing another Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on trade and services that would further boost their economic and commercial ties.
  • 17-Apr-2008 NZ-China FTA website
    New Zealand-China FTA (2008)
  • 16-Apr-2008 PDI
    Arroyo can’t pressure Senate on JPEPA—Senator Pia Cayetano
    Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should not be pressuring the Senate to ratify the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), Senator Pia Cayetano said Wednesday. "Anyone attending the hearings on JPEPA would have concluded that this agreement has so many loopholes and that the government panel miserably failed to secure terms favorable to Filipinos."