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  • 25-Jul-2007 KoA
    KoA’s Action Team finishes ten days of intense struggle
    The struggle against the Korea-US FTA faces the difficult challenge of stopping its ratification.
  • 25-Jul-2007 Prensa Latina
    Biofuels FTAs menace CentAm ag
    The future of Central American agriculture is threatened by developed countries’ demand for biofuels and US-sponsored free trade agreements.
  • 25-Jul-2007 Tico Times
    Anti-CAFTA camp protests outside tribunal
    Leaders of the movement against the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) spoke to about 200 people yesterday outside the Supreme Elections Tribunal in San José.
  • 25-Jul-2007 IHT
    New Zealand, Gulf states open free trade deal talks
    A first round of talks for a free trade agreement between New Zealand and the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council opened Wednesday in the New Zealand capital, Trade Minister Phil Goff said.
  • 25-Jul-2007 MENAFN
    Jordan, Kazakhstan to consider opening free trade talks
    Jordan and Kazakhstan will consider starting talks on a free trade agreement when the joint technical committee from both countries holds two days of meetings starting Thursday.
  • 25-Jul-2007 Naclan News
    Pachamama goes organic: Bolivia’s quinoa farmers
    Bolivia joined the ALBA-TCP pact in 2006, and the government has earmarked $1.5 million for quinoa growers out of the $100 million provided by Chávez for investments benefiting small farmers. This will include credit for at least five quinoa-related projects in the southern altiplano.
  • 24-Jul-2007 The Raw Story
    US still interested in Thai free trade deal
    The United States is still interested in a free trade deal with Thailand, the US embassy said Tuesday, adding that a top trade official had been misquoted as saying the deal was off.
  • 24-Jul-2007 Business Daily Africa
    New rating poses threat to Kenya’s trade terms
    Kenya’s terms of trade in the international market may change for the worse following its recent removal from the list of the world’s Least Developed Countries, it has emerged.
  • 24-Jul-2007 IP Watch
    Observers watchful of US trade impact on medicines access
    The United States has begun incorporating a revised intellectual property and health policy into its bilateral trade deals. But although the overall softer approach towards its partners may improve access to medicines, the debate on the impact of the US free trade agreements on public health in developing countries is not over, according to close observers.
  • 24-Jul-2007
    On free trade, Democrats and Bush can’t even agree on facts
    Free-trade agreements can create new opportunities for consumers and exporters, but making them law isn’t always easy.
  • 24-Jul-2007
    End to US FTA talks won’t affect trade, says commerce chief
    The current level of trade between the United States and Thailand will not be negatively affected if Washington ends the free trade area (FTA) negotiations with Thailand as previously reported, according to Permanent Secretary for Commerce Karun Kittisathaporn.
  • 24-Jul-2007 Chosun Ilbo
    Korea, Russia agree to pilot FTA talks
    Korea has agreed with Russia to launch study group talks on a bilateral free trade agreement in September.
  • 24-Jul-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Africans fear ’ruin’ in Europe trade talks
    African governments, policy analysts, regional economic groups and civil society organizations are increasingly speaking with one voice: the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) now being hammered out between Europe and the ACP countries must be significantly modified to safeguard those countries’ prospects for development.
  • 24-Jul-2007 IATP
    Discontent Down Under: US officials say free-trade pact has been a great success, but Australians are unhappy
    Much of the criticism in Australia focuses on the fact that the pact mandates changes in Australian laws that reflect US traditions, but not Australian traditions.
  • 23-Jul-2007
    Ma: better ties with China needed for FTA with the US
    Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou says the government should improve ties with China first if Taiwan wants to sign a free trade agreement with the US.
  • 23-Jul-2007
    Fish exporters set conditions for EPAs
    With barely five months to go before the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) come into force, it is still unclear whether agreements in the negotiations will be reached.
  • 23-Jul-2007
    Free trade pact with US is unlikely, Asean official says
    The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations probably will not reach a free trade agreement with the United States, Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said Monday in Singapore.
  • 23-Jul-2007
    Guiding ourselves by the African stars
    What does the “grand debate” about a United States of Africa have to do with the fate of SA’s provinces?
  • 23-Jul-2007
    New trade deals: Africa to lose out as EU gains
    As Africa’s leaders met in Accra, Ghana, last week to consider ways of consolidating continental unity through increased trade, pertinent questions were being raised over the impact that a new trade arrangement between the European Union and the 75-member ACP trading bloc will have on regional integration.
  • 23-Jul-2007
    Indian state minister for commerce due today
    Indian State Minister for Commerce Jairam Ramesh will arrive in Dhaka today on a two-day official visit to hold talks on bilateral trade.