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  • 11-Sep-2007 Economic Times
    Asean FTA may be a no-show
    The much-hyped proposed free trade agreement between India and Asean seems to be running into trouble. Asean’s demand that India bring down customs duties on four sensitive agricultural commodities to levels much lower than what New Delhi finds ‘acceptable’ has put a question mark over the deal.
  • 11-Sep-2007 IPS
    Middle East: Bridging the Shia-Sunni divide with free trade
    While Iran and the United States exchange aggressive statements, the Arab countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been busy building trade relations with Tehran and charting an economic course with a potential of mending ties in a tough neighbourhood.
  • 11-Sep-2007 NZ Herald
    US, NZ ’on a date’ for free trade pact
    "We have already cut a free trade deal with Australia. We ought to do one with New Zealand," said US Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue
  • 11-Sep-2007 IHT
    Mexico’s President Calderon in India to boost bilateral trade, strengthen political ties
    India and Mexico on Monday signed an agreement to scale up trade and investment
  • 11-Sep-2007 Channel News Asia
    Permanent Court of Arbitration to set up facility in Singapore
    With rapid growth in the Asian economies, it is inevitable that legal issues and disputes to matters like investment treaties will arise as more and more parties enter into cross-border contracts and agreements.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Voices from the South Centre
    Legal and development implications of inclusion of services in the EPAs
    South Centre has issued a policy brief "Why inclusion of services in the EPAs is problematic" which analyses legal and development implications for Eastern and Southern African countries in negotiating trade in services under the EPAs.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Nation
    JTEPA to boost Thai business but lower Japan’s investment : Kosit
    Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Industry Minister Kosit Panpiemras said the Japan Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) will help boost Thailand’s business potential but Japan’s investment in Thailand will fall.
  • 11-Sep-2007 NZ Herald
    Hong Kong suitor hopes to tie the knot
    The Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, is optimistic that a free trade agreement between New Zealand and Hong Kong can be concluded.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Stuff
    We’ll break US free trade barrier - Nats
    National leader John Key today unveiled plans to negotiate a free trade agreement with the US, which the government is yet to succeed in doing since it came to power in 1999.
  • 11-Sep-2007 LBC
    Democrats change FTA views
    More and more US Democrats, many of whom have been skeptical about the Bush administration’s trade agenda in Latin America, now support pending free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, and Panama.
  • 11-Sep-2007 AFP
    New Zealand presses case for free trade deal with US
    New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark pressed her country’s case for a free trade deal with the US Monday, saying it would benefit both countries.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Yonhap
    Lawmakers seek probe of free trade deal with U.S.
    A non-partisan group of 82 lawmakers filed a request with Korea’s National Assembly Monday, asking for a parliamentary probe of a free trade deal between South Korea and the United States which awaits legislative approval in both countries.
  • 11-Sep-2007 LBO
    Sri Lanka should make better use of existing trade deals: experts
    Trade analysts say that Sri Lanka should make the most of existing trade deals like the Bay of Bengal Initiative before negotiating more bilateral and multilateral agreements.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Daily Star
    Bangladesh: Govt to study impact of free trade deals with neighbours
    The caretaker government of Bangladesh has initiated a study on the impact of striking free trade agreements (FTAs) with India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Yonhap
    S. Korea, Peru agree to begin FTA discussions
    South Korea and Peru agreed to launch discussions on forming a bilateral free trade agreement during a summit between South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Peruvian President Alan Garcia
  • 11-Sep-2007 Inquirer
    Group says new fertilizer aid tied to JPEPA
    The Philippine national fishermen’s alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas has voiced out suspicions that the timing of the release of a P125-million fertilizer grant from the Japanese government was “closely linked” to the approval of the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
  • 11-Sep-2007 Donga
    US Congress postpones deliberation on KORUS FTA
    Leaders of the US Congress have reportedly decided to approve the US-Colombia FTA before deliberating the Korea-US FTA.
  • 11-Sep-2007 People’s Daily
    China, Peru launch FTA talks
    Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Friday and the two agreed to launch bilateral free trade area (FTA) negotiations.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Bernama
    EU-Asean FTA negotiations unlikely to succeed, says academician
    A successful free trade agreement between the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is unlikely because the Asean nations are unwilling to consider tackling the non-tariff and regulatory barriers, European Centre for International Political Economy’s co-director Razeen Sally said
  • 11-Sep-2007 Scoop
    Jane Kelsey - Critical overview of APEC’s agenda
    The objective of the neoliberal camp is to link together the tangle of FTAs that is emerging in the region into a grand Asia Pacific FTA.