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  • 12-Oct-2007 AHN
    China sets up new harbor area for planned free trade zone with ASEAN
    China has started construction of a bonded harbor area that will form part of a future free trade zone with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • 12-Oct-2007 MCOT
    Thai food exports to reach Bt600 billion
    Thailand’s food exports are expected to increase by 7.8 per cent from last year to Bt600 billion this year and to further rise by 10 per cent next year due to the free trade area (FTA) agreements and an increased demand for products as a result of global warming, according to industry executives.
  • 12-Oct-2007 IPS
    Caribbean may sue to reinstate EU sugar deal
    Caribbean Community leaders may try to reinstate the EU sugar protocol through an international court.
  • 12-Oct-2007 Bangkok Post
    NLA nod ’not needed for JTEPA’
    Thai Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram insisted the Thailand-Japan free trade agreement, signed by the Surayud administration, is in line with the 2007 constitution and it is not necessary for it to be endorsed by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA).
  • 12-Oct-2007 Monsters and Critics
    Taiwan, Nicaragua ratify free-trade agreement
    Taiwan and Nicaragua ratified their free-trade agreement in Taiwan Thursday, further liberalizing trade.
  • 11-Oct-2007 LA Times
    US-Panama trade pact looks shaky
    Washington officials say that even if Gonzalez — the president of Panama’s National Assembly, who is wanted on murder charges in the US — were to quit, attitudes in Congress and in the Bush administration have hardened against the free trade deal.
  • 11-Oct-2007 Chosun Ilbo
    Rice, Clinton clash over Korea-US FTA
    With a firm eye on the support of labor unions, which oppose free trade pacts, US presidential contender Hillary Clinton denounced not only the Korea-US trade deal but also NAFTA, which was signed by her own husband, former president Bill Clinton. It seems the Korea-US FTA is unlikely to be ratified by Congress before the tenure of President George W. Bush is out.
  • 11-Oct-2007 Dow Jones News
    Brazil, US executives seek to make up lost ground on trade
    After the failure of talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas and slow progress in advancing the Doha round agenda of the World Trade Organization, executives from Brazil and the US have decided to take the matter of improving trade relations between their countries into their own hands.
  • 11-Oct-2007 Japan Times
    Philippine Senate prepares to shoot down FTA with Japan
    Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s campaign to persuade the Senate to ratify a landmark free-trade agreement with Japan is looking increasingly hopeless
  • 10-Oct-2007
    Korean Alliance call for international protest letter
    Please sign this international protest letter against the arrests of Mr. Seok-woon Park and Mr. Je-jun Ju of the Korean Alliance against Korea-US FTA, and the continuing suppression of the Korean anti-FTA movement, before 19 October 2007
  • 10-Oct-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Ghana: Industries against signing
    The Association of Ghana Industry (AGI) has added its voice to the clarion cry on African governments not to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) or risk killing local industries.
  • 10-Oct-2007 Sify
    India: FTA concerns
    With elections likely to be held earlier than scheduled, the prospects for progress on the free trade agreements with Thailand and Asean have weakened further.
  • 9-Oct-2007 Prensa Latina
    Uruguay union staves off US pillage
    Feet firmly planted, Juan Castillo, coordinator of Uruguay’s PIT-CNT central union plugged his nose at the visit of US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez here Monday.
  • 9-Oct-2007 CTV
    New FTAs could worsen Canadian auto deficit: CAW
    "A free trade deal with Korea will take a bad situation and make it worse...The government should cancel these talks," said Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove.
  • 8-Oct-2007 IHT
    Egypt, Israel to amend trade agreement
    Egypt and Israel have agreed to reduce the percentage of Israeli components that must be included in Egyptian-made products that receive duty-free status when exported to the United States
  • 8-Oct-2007
    Costa Rica referendum on CAFTA outcome questioned
    US intervention, corruption, and an internationally financed fear campaign provoke questions about referendum process
  • 8-Oct-2007 Forbes
    Venezuela mulls return to CAN
    President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela may return to the Andean Community, or CAN, because leftist leaders in Bolivia and Ecuador who have resisted free trade deals with the United States could help to transform the regional trade bloc.
  • 8-Oct-2007 Inquirer
    Militant groups ask senators to scrap RP-Japan accord
    The jobs of at least 77,000 as well as tens of thousands of iron and steel workers whose livelihoods depend, directly or indirectly, on the automotive industry are imperiled as the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) threatens to destroy the country’s automotive industry, said Frank Mero, national president of the Philippine Metalworkers’ Alliance and of the Automotive Industry Workers’ Alliance.
  • 8-Oct-2007 GMA
    JPEPA unconstitutional, legal luminaries say
    Legal luminaries insist on the unconstitutionality of the proposed Japan Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), presently under scrutiny by the Philippine Senate
  • 8-Oct-2007 Yonhap
    S. Korea, ASEAN agree on free trade deal on services
    South Korea and Southeast Asian nations have reached a free trade deal on services, raising the possibility of finalizing free trade talks by the end of this year.