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  • 8-May-2007 Bloomberg
    Japan should aim for free trade agreement with US, panel says
    Japan should push for a trade agreement with the US to reduce duties and investment barriers, members of the government’s key economic panel said.
  • 8-May-2007
    Brunei, US officials study ways to expand bilateral trade
    The United States trade representatives and Brunei government officials yesterday discussed how trade relations can be further expanded as well as what the US can do to support the sultanate’s efforts to diversify its economy.
  • 8-May-2007 Asia Times
    US and China tug at ASEAN unity
    ASEAN is being fragmented by intensifying US-China competition for regional influence, which is putting a premium on bilateralism with the big powers at the expense of ASEAN’s ambition toward more regional multilateralism.
  • 8-May-2007
    Delhi’s duty-free offer
    Bangladesh’s business leaders are rather dismayed at India’s recent duty-free market access offer, as they have expressed the view that mere duty-free access could not ensure free flow of goods into Indian market unless non-tariff and para-tariff barriers are removed.
  • 8-May-2007
    Qatar, Netherlands set to sign trade deals; LNG in focus
    Qatar and the Netherlands may soon sign investment protection as well as double taxation avoidance agreements as part of efforts to improve economic and political relations between them.
  • 8-May-2007
    Malaysia-US FTA at technical stage, says Rafidah
    Negotiations on the Malaysia-US Free Trade Agreement has reached the technical stage, the Dewan Negara was told Tuesday.
  • 8-May-2007 Monsters and critics
    Taiwan signs free trade pact with El Salvador, Honduras
    Taiwan has signed a free trade agreement with El Salvador and Honduras to expand trade ties between the three countries, the Bureau of Foreign Trade said on Tuesday.
  • 8-May-2007 Gulf Times
    GCC to seek further talks before EU free-trade deal
    The wording of the agreement remains undecided along with issues concerning service industries and investment rules.
  • 8-May-2007 Channel News Asia
    Ukraine, Singapore begin FTA negotiations
    Ukraine and Singapore have begun negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 8-May-2007
    ALBA: A viable key to African diaspora self-determination
    Author and former Jamaican public servant, Lloyd D. McCarthy, makes the case that both Claude McKay and Michael Manley would have supported the political and economic initiative called the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
  • 8-May-2007 AP
    Ecuador not renewing pact with US
    Ecuador’s new leftist president has decided not to renew a bilateral investment treaty with the United States, the country’s foreign minister said Monday, just days before a senior US official is due to visit.
  • 8-May-2007
    Will the trade-off be worth it?
    On the surface, the European Commission’s argument on how it sees economic partnership agreements with developing countries in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions playing out, is compelling.
  • 7-May-2007 Yonhap
    FTA with EU to hurt S Korea’s alcohol, meat, dairy sectors: report
    A free trade pact with the European Union (EU) is expected to hurt South Korea’s alcoholic beverage, meat and dairy sectors, a report by Nonghyup Management Institute, a semi-official research institute. said Monday.
  • 7-May-2007 Morning Call
    Drug firms against trade changes
    US drugmakers, among the biggest proponents of free-trade agreements, are now lobbying to stop Democrats and the Bush administration from reworking pending trade deals to curb provisions that benefit the industry.
  • 7-May-2007 Donga
    FTA is the path to survival: says a Chilean diplomat
    “Multilateral trade agreements require much patience and involve complicated processes. If trade determines the survival of your country, you need to be more active in shaping bilateral or multilateral trade frames,” said Chile’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alberto Van Klaveren during a two-day visit to Seoul.
  • 7-May-2007 ABS-CBN
    Bush to hold first summit with ASEAN countries
    US President George W Bush confirmed Friday that he will attend his first summit with all 10 Southeast Asian leaders, to talk about trade and security, in September. "I suggested to the president that we should consider a suitable new initiative, which perhaps would be able to take our relations another step forward," said Singapore’s PM Lee Hsien Loong.
  • 7-May-2007 Brunei Direct
    Economic Partnership Agreement marks new chapter for Brunei, Japan
    For the first time, Japan has secured a specific chapter on ’energy’ in a bilateral FTA — with Brunei.
  • 7-May-2007 Ohmynews
    Japan PM’s Middle East tour
    Abe agreed with leaders of five Middle East nations to strengthen bilateral relations with Japan on a wide range of areas, including politics, culture and environment as well as energy, trade and investment.
  • 7-May-2007 Taipei Times
    US representatives call for Taiwan-US trade agreement
    Five members of the US House of Representatives have proposed a resolution in support of signing a free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Taiwan.
  • 7-May-2007 The New Yorker
    Exporting IP
    Free-trade agreements that export our own restrictive intellectual property laws may make the world safe for Pfizer, Microsoft, and Disney, but they don’t deserve the name free trade.