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  • 31-Aug-2007 ABC
    Pacific: Trade officials deeply concerned about European offer
    Pacific trade officials and legal experts from 14 Pacific Island nations have just spent 3 days examing Europe’s draft agreement in detail and are deeply concerned about the text (audio)
  • 30-Aug-2007 The Edge
    Stiglitz: FTAs advantageous to US
    Nobel laureate and former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz believes that no country should enter into free trade agreements with the US, as none of the developing countries has benefited greatly from them.
  • 30-Aug-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Uganda: Coffee producers are the biggest losers
    The pending economic partnership agreement (EPA) between the European Union and developing countries will further exploit Ugandan coffee producers
  • 30-Aug-2007 Mondaq
    Canada and India conclude investment treaty: Negotiations with China continue
    Concluding a FIPA with China is one of the Canadian government’s top priorities. However, negotiations have dragged on due to significant differences between Canada’s Model FIPA and the standard Chinese approach.
  • 29-Aug-2007 Asahi Shimbun
    Japan, EU to study economic partnership agreement
    To keep pace with South Korea, Japan will start joint research with the European Union as early as next month on a possible economic partnership agreement, sources said.
  • 29-Aug-2007 IPS
    African countries stand up to EU
    Concern over getting too little in return for what they are being asked to give up has led some African nations to say "no" to some proposals for new trade relations with Europe next year.
  • 28-Aug-2007 Reuters
    US eyes trade with Pakistan and Afghanistan
    The Bush administration will push Congress in coming months to approve legislation aimed at creating reconstruction opportunity zones so that goods produced in designated parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan can enter the United States duty-free.
  • 28-Aug-2007 Reuters
    US, Malaysia could strike trade deal next year - USTR
    The United States and Malaysia could finish talks on a free trade agreement in 2008, even though the Bush administration has lost key legislative authority, a top US trade official said on Monday.
  • 28-Aug-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Kenya: EPAs could delay EU bid
    Uncertainty is looming in Kenya’s horticultural sector following the move by the five EAC member states to sign one Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which they say could take much longer time than was previously anticipated.
  • 27-Aug-2007 rabble
    The politics of corporate party crashing
    The North American global justice movement just exposed the “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (SPP), the latest corporate assault on our democracy, environment and human rights. As activists assess their next steps, many wonder: can we still work together, dig the SPP’s grave still deeper, and then push it in? And where do we go from there?
  • 27-Aug-2007 LVC
    Forum on food sovereignty in Korea
    Jose Bove said that the fight against EPA (Economic Partnership Agreements) is more difficult than the one against WTO because this only involves a few countries.
  • 27-Aug-2007 Prensa Latina
    Repression on FTA opponents denounced
    The Costa Rican Human Rights Association denounced the increase of the police repression against local citizens, students and social leaders opposed to the Free Trade Agreement with US in their Sunday statement.
  • 27-Aug-2007 Chosun Ilbo
    Korea to send draft proposal on FTA with EU
    It will specify when and how much Korea is willing to open its agricultural sector, the most sensitive area in free trade talks.
  • 27-Aug-2007 Nasdaq.com
    Asean eyes completion of FTA talks with Australia, New Zealand in ’08
    Asean economic ministers said while "considerable progress" has been made on the proposed comprehensive FTA with Australia-New Zealand, concluding talks this year is unlikely because the next phase of the negotiations "would be critical and intense."
  • 27-Aug-2007 Taipei Times
    El Salvador approves FTA with Taiwan
    Under the FTA, El Salvador could export up to 60,000 tonnes of sugar tariff-free to Taiwan each year
  • 27-Aug-2007 IntelliBriefs
    The elephant and the rising sun: Alliance for the future
    India is prime "real estate" for Japan, both in economic and defense terms. Most importantly, India is a large consumer market with the potential to increase profits for Japanese corporations.
  • 26-Aug-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Tanzania hindering regional trade talks with Europe
    The East African Community (EAC) is set to sign an economic pact with the European Union ahead of a December 31 deadline to avoid losing the lucrative export markets in Europe, but Tanzania is yet to agree to the plan, Kenyan official has disclosed.
  • 26-Aug-2007 Sinchew-i
    Malaysia: EU hopes to complete FTA in two years: Ambassador
    “Malaysia has too many regulations and guidelines which hinders its competitiveness, free market and fair competition" EU ambassador to Malaysia said.
  • 26-Aug-2007 Japan Today
    Japan, ASEAN reach FTA, but rice excluded
    Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reached a free trade agreement Saturday, under which Tokyo will immediately repeal tariffs on 90% of imports from ASEAN by value to catch up with China and South Korea in intensifying regional FTA races.
  • 26-Aug-2007 Japan Times
    Arroyo on FTA promo blitz but environmentalists worry
    Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s team has begun a high-profile public relations blitz to urge the Senate to ratify a free-trade pact with Japan.