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  • 11-Jun-2007
    Dominican Republic’s Free Trade with Canada would boost investments
    Dominican Republic could become a key regional center for the re-export of merchandise and services, through the mechanisms in the United States-Mexico-Canada trade triangle after it signs free trade pacts with the two latter countries, said the Foreign Ministry’s head of Trade Negotiations today.
  • 11-Jun-2007
    S. Korean minister calls on EU firms to consider investment in Kaesong complex
    South Korea’s commerce minister on Monday called on European companies to consider investing in an inter-Korean industrial complex in North Korea.
  • 11-Jun-2007
    Malaysia, Pakistan Review Bilateral Ties
    Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his Malaysian counterpart Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had agreed upon the need for early finalization of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries, the Saudi Press Agency reports Monday.
  • 11-Jun-2007
    India, Russia to explore CEPA
    India and Russia have decided to explore signing a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that will include not only features of an FTA but also trade in services and investment.
  • 11-Jun-2007
    Churches in EPAs debate: Why Not?
    Felix Okatch (“Churches’ stand on EPAs look suspicious,” The EastAfrican, May 28-June 3) wondered why churches should take a stand on a “complex matter” such as the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the countries of Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific.
  • 11-Jun-2007
    Pakistan, Malaysia agree to finalize Free Trade Agreement
    Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and the Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Abdullah Badawi Sunday agreed upon the need for early finalization of FTA (Free Trade Agreement) between the two countries.The mutual consent was expressed during a telephonic conversation between the two Prime Ministers this afternoon.
  • 11-Jun-2007
    Canada needs more trade deals
    Free trade with Iceland and Liechtenstein is not exactly a hot political topic in Canada. But last week, Canada announced a deal with those two little countries along with Norway and Sweden - together they refer to themselves, rather grandly, as the European Free Trade Association. It’s not much, but it’s more than this country has accomplished in the trade arena is some time. Trade Minister David Emerson says there’s more to come, to which Canadian exporters and consumers can only say: "It’s about time."
  • 11-Jun-2007
    FTA with Pakistan likely to boost tea exports
    The Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Pakistan said this week that the potential to expand trade between the two countries will be facilitated by the recently inked Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 11-Jun-2007 Berne Declaration
    International signature campaign against EFTA FTAs
    The member states from the European Free Trade Association EFTA (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland) are increasingly negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with developing countries. In 2007, they strive to enter into negotiations with Peru, Colombia, India and Indonesia. Plese join this signature campaign to stop them.
  • 11-Jun-2007 Yonhap
    S Korean minister calls on EU firms to consider investment in Kaesong complex
    No foreign firm has expressed interest in the facility that South Korea wants to build up as a showcase for economic cooperation between the Koreas.
  • 10-Jun-2007 Washington Post
    Hillary Clinton slams proposed US-Korea trade pact
    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic front-runner in the presidential race, said on Saturday she would oppose ratification of a free trade pact with South Korea because it would harm the US auto industry, among other things.
  • 10-Jun-2007 Korean Americans For Fair Trade
    People’s forum on the Korea-US free trade agreement
    A people’s forum in Washington DC on the impact of the KorUS FTA — and what we need to do
  • 10-Jun-2007 Financial Times
    EU in danger of breaking its promise to the poor
    In its economic partnership agreement (EPA) negotiations with the ACP, the European Union seems to have forgotten the development dimension and pursues an agenda that reflects primarily the interest of the EU alone. This pattern is painfully evident in the EU’s pursuit of new and higher standards for intellectual property and other trade-related areas.
  • 9-Jun-2007
    Feds to ease out tariff
    The Canadian shipbuilding industry’s feared loss of a protective tariff has come to pass and now the industry will have three years to adjust to new market conditions.
  • 9-Jun-2007
    Ecuador to mediate Andes for EU deal
    Ecuadorian chancellor, Maria Fernanda Espinosa affirmed that her country will mediate differences within the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) prior to the upcoming summit.
  • 9-Jun-2007
    Singapore leaders, GCC Secretary General discuss free trade agreement
    The visiting Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Mr Abdulrahman Hamad Al-Attiyah, met Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday.
  • 9-Jun-2007
    Sri Lanka to announce FTA with India by March ’08
    The proposed free trade Agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and India can become a reality by March 2008. It would trigger trade between the two countries and offer opportunities to exploit potential in service sectors such as finance, tourism, health and education, said CII Southern Region Chairman P K Mohapatra on his return from Colombo on Friday.
  • 9-Jun-2007
    EU won’t demand ’duty-free’ access to Caribbean markets - Critical of Jamaica’s high cost of business
    A European Union (EU) representative in Jamaica, moving to calm fears that duty-free goods from that region would storm the Caribbean come January 1, 2008 has said the 27-member bloc is not expecting full reciprocity on its blanket offer to eliminate duties on regionally-produced goods entering its market.
  • 9-Jun-2007
    Trade accord with Laos signed
    The Philippines and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic signed yesterday an agreement on the promotion and protection of investments to increase bilateral trade that has remained low between the two members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • 9-Jun-2007
    Consumers wait in vain for FTA price reductions
    The president of the Dominican Association of Wholesale Importers (ASODAI) Manuel Cabrera says that price reductions are being introduced gradually with the tariff reductions that have come about with the entry into effect of the DR-CAFTA treaty. However, fewer products than originally hoped are affected.