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  • 5-Apr-2007 Playfuls
    South Korea and India seek to cement closer economic partnership
    South Korea and India agreed to work towards sealing a comprehensive economic partnership agreement by the end of this year, the Seoul Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
  • 5-Apr-2007 IPS
    EU makes tricky offer more tempting
    The European Union has this week sought to increase the likelihood that it will sign controversial free trade agreements with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries by offering to open its markets to virtually all of their agricultural goods.
  • 5-Apr-2007 Gulf Times
    Indo-Qatari labour pact to be amended soon
    Sacking Indian employees at will could be reduced drastically in Qatar, if not eliminated, when a 1985 bilateral labour agreement is amended soon.
  • 5-Apr-2007 APF Canada
    A free trade accord with India is only a first step
    Canada has taken a new initiative with the recent proposal for an Indo-Canadian Free Trade Agreement.
  • 4-Apr-2007 LBO
    Sri Lanka-Nepal free trade deal could trigger trade, but also potential for opening services
    A proposed free-trade deal between Nepal and Sri Lanka could boost trade but analysts say there is more potential for service liberalization.
  • 4-Apr-2007 Yonhap
    S Korea’s finance minister hints at FTA talks with China
    South Korea’s finance minister said Wednesday that the government may push to strike a free trade agreement (FTA) with China after it wraps up negotiations with the European Union (EU).
  • 4-Apr-2007 MCOT
    Thailand eyes expansion of FTA deal to India
    Thailand is ready to expand the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to India if the ASEAN-India FTA talks fail to reach an agreement.
  • 4-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    Civic groups continue rally against SK-US trade deal
    With South Korea and the United States forging a free trade agreement on April 2, civic groups here were ratcheting up their opposition to the economic pact, blaming the government for "giving up our sovereignty in return for nothing."
  • 4-Apr-2007 CBC
    US free trade deal with South Korea gives push to Canada’s talks, official says
    "For the Koreans, the US was a priority so now that that is out of the way, we’re hopeful we’ll reach an agreement in the near future," a Canadian government official said Tuesday.
  • 4-Apr-2007 USTR
    US-Korea FTA (2007): US summary of agreement
    Published by USTR
  • 4-Apr-2007 Yomiuri Shimbun
    US-ROK pact may prompt govt to rethink FTA stance
    The Japanese government is likely to reconsider its stance on free trade agreements in light of a pact concluded Monday between South Korea and the United States
  • 4-Apr-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Nigeria: Between trade agreements and poverty impact
    EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson admitted that if the EPA negotiation does not finish this year, there are options available which he termed as expensive and not so good.
  • 3-Apr-2007 FTA Watch
    FTA Watch and allies reject JTEPA
    Today is a day of the deepest shame for Thailand and the Tai people. The coup-installed government of Gen Surayuth Chulanon has decided to sign a free trade agreement with Japan. This is in spite of the nation-wide impact that this agreement will have on the environment, biological resources, farmers, patients, small businesses and the majority consumers of health services. We insist that JTEPA as signed by the government today is null and void. We reject it and refute any obligations it places on the Thai people.
  • 3-Apr-2007 MOFA
    Japan-Thailand FTA (JTEPA, 2007)
  • 3-Apr-2007 MCOT
    Thai, Japanese leaders ink free trade pact
    Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on Tuesday signed a landmark free trade accord which proponents in Thailand hope will boost bilateral trade, but which has drawn protests from non-governmental organisations and environmental activists.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    SK-US FTA, as it stands, should not be accepted
    Little was gained for Korea in the negotiations and the final draft reflects mostly an acceptance of American demands, writes The Hankyoreh.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Kyodo
    Japan mulls FTA study with US, ready to resume talks with S. Korea
    Japan will study the pros and cons of a free trade agreement with the United States and is ready to restart FTA talks with South Korea, Cabinet ministers said Tuesday following a deal Washington and Seoul struck Monday.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    SK reportedly agrees to nix testing US genetically modified crops
    South Korea has reportedly exempted US foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from safety tests in the Korea-US free trade agreement struck on April 2, a move that Korean environmentalists criticised as the government "selling off" the health of the nation.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Hankyoreh
    FTA protestor who immolated himself in serious condition
    Heo Se-ok, who set himself on fire on April 1 in protest of the Korean government’s moves to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, still remains in serious condition with burns over 63 percent of body, hospital officials said. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions issued a statement holding the government responsible for Heo’s taking of extreme measures to protest the situation.
  • 3-Apr-2007 Korea Times
    Trade pact risks environment, public health
    For the past few years, the backers and denouncers of a free trade accord between Korea and the United States have feuded like the Montagues and Capulets. Not surprisingly, the two camps are still polarized on whether the trade pact bringing together the world’s largest and 10th largest economies is destined to be a happy marriage or Shakespearean tragedy.