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  • 8-Jun-2007
    First meeting of ALBA ministers concludes in Venezuela
    The countries that make up the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) trade block met in Venezuela this Wednesday for a meeting of the ALBA Ministers. The meeting set forth some of the future integration projects, the organizational structure, and the countries agreed on the formation of an ALBA development bank.
  • 8-Jun-2007
    EU sponsors new study on EPAs
    Uganda will benefit from a $64,000 fund from the European Union aimed at supporting studies on the likely impact of international trade on its environment.
  • 8-Jun-2007
    Africans speak out against EPAs as unwelcome
    When European campaigners suggest that a free trade deal could harm the poor, they typically encounter a frosty reaction from civil servants in Brussels. Still, no one tries to muzzle them.
  • 8-Jun-2007
    Japan, Australia to attend to agriculture in FTA talks
    Japan and Australia agreed Thursday to pay close attention to Tokyo’s politically sensitive agricultural issues when they advance talks for a bilateral free-trade agreement, the next round of which is slated for late July.
  • 8-Jun-2007
    Thai logistics must improve for ASEAN-China FTA
    Thailand must address its logistics problems if it wants to receive full benefit from the ASEAN-China free trade area agreement, to be effective on 2010, according to new research.
  • 8-Jun-2007 Viet Nam News
    Viet Nam, Japan enter third round of trade negotiations
    The third round of negotiations to draft the Viet Nam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) opened in Tokyo yesterday.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    EU, ACP determined to meet end-of-year deadline for EPAs
    Leaders from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states have vowed once again to work to finalise a set of free trade agreements with the EU before a critical end-of-year deadline, although many issues in the negotiations remain unresolved.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Secret FTA deal could lower meat safety standards
    In a secret deal struck just before the two countries signed a free trade agreement (FTA) in early April, the South Korean government promised the US it would offer a "de facto" relinquishment of its authority to conduct hygiene and quarantine tests on US imported beef.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Emerson announces new trade strategy for Canada
    Trade Minister David Emerson, denouncing those who fear Canadians can’t compete internationally, announced Thursday a new strategy that includes the first free trade deal Canada has struck in six years.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Japan urges Indonesia to finalize investment list
    Indonesia needs to finalize the negative lists of investment from Japan because any delay could potentially hamper the signing of the long-awaited Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), a Japanese envoy said Thursday.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Uribe, back in Washington, lobbies for trade accord
    Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will press reluctant US lawmakers today for a free-trade accord as concern mounts at home that without a treaty, the country may see resurgent rebel violence and drug trafficking.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Japanese check in to Thai hospitals
    More Japanese nationals will receive medical treatment at Thailand’s private hospitals in 2007, according to a new survey conducted by Kasikorn Research Centre.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    CAFTA referendum in Costa Rica postponed
    The Supreme Elections Tribunal (TSE) announced yesterday that it is postponing a nationwide referendum on the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) from Sept. 23 to Oct. 7 as a high court examines whether the assembly violated its procedures in its handling of legislation related to the pact.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Nelson Seeks Action in Face of Resumed South Korean Beef Ban
    This week, South Korea once again instituted a blanket ban on U.S. beef imports after a paperwork error led to U.S. beef intended for domestic consumption to be sent to South Korea. Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson today announced that he would seek a U.S. response to the South Koreans’ action.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Canada "back in the game" with EFTA trade deal
    Canada and four European nations have completed negotiations for a free trade agreement, the country’s trade minister said on Thursday, saying Ottawa needs to seal more such deals to compete globally.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    Gloria pushes free trade between Asean, Europe
    President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has expressed confidence that the long-awaited Free Trade Agreement between the economic power bloc of the European Union and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations can be concluded in November.
  • 7-Jun-2007
    ‘S. Korea-US Alliance Manifested in FTA’
    The half-century Korea-U.S. military alliance will continue to evolve throughout the 21st century because of the two countries’ ``convergence of national interests’’ beyond security issues, the top U.S. military officer said.
  • 7-Jun-2007 AHN
    Controversial Philippine-Japan free trade deal not to be approved in 13th Congress
    The controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, the free trade deal signed between Manila and Tokyo, will have to wait for the next Congress for ratification, as the document is not included in agenda in the last three plenary sessions of the 13th Congress of the Philippines this week.
  • 7-Jun-2007 Financial Times
    Will EU break promise to poor?
    Letter to the Editors, Financial Times, 25 May 2007, on the proposed intellectual property provisions of the EPAs.
  • 6-Jun-2007 www.kaft.org
    June 11th in DC: People’s Forum on the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement
    Monday, June 11th, a free People’s Forum on the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement will be held in Washington DC - All are welcome!