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  • 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.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Pinoy Vote
    Solon seeks probe of 31 other ’ZTEs’ with Chinese firms
    Aside from the controversial ZTE deal, the Philippine government has entered into at least 31 other “questionable" investment agreements with corporations in China, Akbayan party-list Rep. Ana Theresia Hontiveros said. "Like JPEPA, no one has seen the content of the deals and the government is refusing to divulge their details to the public."
  • 11-Sep-2007 Press TV
    Iran ready for FTA talks with PGCC
    Tehran is ready to hold talks with the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council on a free trade pact.
  • 11-Sep-2007 Korea Times
    Imports up, exports down one year after Korea-EFTA FTA
    A year after a trade deal between Korea and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) went into effect last September, Korea’s largest trade group said that imports from the four-nation bloc hiked while exports dipped heavily.
  • 10-Sep-2007 Squeezed
    Squeezed: The real cost of free trade in the Asia-Pacific
    Filmed in Thailand and The Philippines in July 2007, Squeezed tells the story of how free trade agreements and globalisation are changing the lives of millions of people living in the Asia-Pacific region.
  • 8-Sep-2007 The Hill
    Fugitive’s election muddles trade deal prospects
    Advocates of a US-Panama free trade deal have a new headache: Panama has just elected an official wanted for arrest in the U.S. for allegedly killing an American soldier.
  • 6-Sep-2007 Afrique en ligne
    UNCTAD warns poor countries on free trade deals
    Though preferential trade agreements (PTAs) may offer transitory gains in terms of market access and higher foreign direct investment, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has cautioned developing countries to be careful before entering into such deals.
  • 6-Sep-2007 AlterNet
    Why is our trade policy benefitting tax cheats?
    The pending US trade agreement with Panama isn’t really about trade. It’s about foreign investor rights, money laundering, and tax dodging.
  • 6-Sep-2007 Islands Business
    PACER: Islands could lose $10m anually in revenue
    Some Pacific island countries stand to lose up to US$10 million annually in revenue due to trade liberalisation under the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations, according to a report commissioned by the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum
  • 6-Sep-2007
    Open letter to the Prime Minister of India on the Indo-US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture
    Given the interest generated with regard to the US-India nuclear deal, it is time to express our concerns on the US-India Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, too, and not let it be implemented in a business-as-usual attitude.
  • 6-Sep-2007
    Costa Rica: Indígenas reclaman consulta sobre Convenio de Obtenciones Vegetales
    Con un recurso de amparo ante la Sala Constitucional, los pueblos indígenas reclaman nuevamente su derecho a ser consultados debidamente sobre el Convenio de la Unión para la Protección de Obtenciones Vegetales (UPOV 91).
  • 5-Sep-2007 North Queensland Register
    ’Fast track’ Aust-Korea trade agreement: NFF
    A new study reveals Australian agricultural and food exports to Korea could be slashed by 12% by 2030, in real terms, should Korea and the US ratify their free trade agreement.
  • 5-Sep-2007 Reuters
    Philippines wants fishing agreement in S. China Sea
    The Philippines wants an agreement to allow free fishing in disputed waters of the South China Sea
  • 3-Sep-2007
    Draft EU-Pacific EPA (Aug 2007)
  • 1-Sep-2007 Granma International
    US reassumes its dirty war against Nicaragua
    Ortega continues to condemn the destabilization plans on the part of the government in Washington, and in the last few weeks has attacked the Free Trade Agreement signed by his country with the United States
  • 1-Sep-2007 SWO
    Hundreds of Malaysians protest against Free Trade Agreement
    On Sunday 26 August more than 500 people staged a strong anti US-FTA protest in the centre of Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. Most of the protesters were farmers from the northern rice-bowl state of Kedah, or workers and urban settlers.
  • 31-Aug-2007 GRAIN
    Japan digs its claws into biodiversity through FTAs
    The Japanese government is increasingly using free trade agreements (FTAs) to tighten corporate control over seeds and other forms of biodiversity that are crucial to food, agriculture and medicine. Two such deals sealed this month with Chile and Indonesia put Japan in the big league of nations using bilateral deals to make seed-saving on the farm a thing of the past.
  • 31-Aug-2007 The Pacific Islands Forum and its Secretariat
    Pacific ACP countries express deep concern at EU trade deal proposal
    Pacific trade officials and legal experts have expressed their disappointment and deep concern at the draft text proposed by the European Commission for an Economic Partnership Agreement covering trade in goods, trade in services, fisheries, investment and development cooperation.