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  • 25-May-2007 PDI
    Arroyo: Stalled Doha talks drive East Asia integration
    The stalled Doha round of talks of the World Trade Organization is what is driving the process of integration in East Asia, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Thursday.
  • 24-May-2007 FPIF
    Japan infiltrates the Middle East
    Japan is the preferred US candidate among Asian powers to penetrate an increasingly eastward leaning Middle East. In providing advanced technology and investments that the region desperately needs, Japan has an advantage over India and China in this new rivalry for Middle East influence.
  • 24-May-2007 Asian Journal
    Side deal on toxic wastes won’t wash, says lawyer
    A proposed side agreement to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement aimed at ensuring that no toxic wastes will be exported to the Philippines will not not solve the deeper, more substantive problems of the JPEPA.
  • 24-May-2007 ASEAN
    China-ASEAN FTA: trade in services (2007)
  • 24-May-2007 People’s Daily
    African leaders resolve to harmonize regional blocs
    The leaders mandated Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki to convene a joint summit of COMESA, the South Africa Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) to discuss the harmonization of the cross-border trading system.
  • 24-May-2007 Seattle Post Intelligencer
    ’Free trade’ drives Mexicans north
    While Democratic leaders and President Bush do the hard sell on bipartisan immigration reform, they are now pushing secret, anti-worker, anti-environment trade agreements that will only exacerbate US immigration problems.
  • 24-May-2007 Japan Today
    Japan begins studies on FTAs with US, EU
    Japan has begun considering bilateral free trade agreements with both the United States and the European Union, with specific plans. If the studies proceed smoothly, Japan and the United States are expected to start FTA negotiations "around the summer of 2009 after the launch of a new US administration," a senior METI official said.
  • 24-May-2007 Prensa Latina
    Mass demonstrations in Colombia
    Hundreds of thousands of Colombians joined the national strike in a score of cities on Wednesday to protest against the US-Colombia free trade agreement and Uribe’s neoliberal policies, and to support public education.
  • 23-May-2007 CCPA
    NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state disputes
    Table of all disputes and their status as of 1 March 2007
  • 23-May-2007 Yonhap
    South Korea, US may release full text of FTA on Friday, official says
    South Korea and the United States have been in discussions to release the full text of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) on Friday, a senior trade official said Wednesday, amid an indication that the deal’s renegotiation is imminent.
  • 23-May-2007 Chosun Ilbo
    Pres. Roh says Seoul’s FTA with Beijing inevitable
    Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Seoul’s signing of a free-trade pact with Beijing is inevitable but the timing must be right.
  • 23-May-2007 IRNA
    Italy supports Pakistan’s case for FTA with EU
    Italy has strongly supported Pakistan’s case for Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union and given assurance to encourage Italian investment in Pakistan.
  • 23-May-2007 USTR
    US trade agreements with Sub-Saharan African countries
    The United States currently has no FTAs with countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Bush Administration is pursuing alternative means of strengthening its trade and investment relationships with key African partners, including trade and investment framework agreements (TIFAs), bilateral investment treaties (BITs), and a proposed trade and investment cooperation agreement (TICA).
  • 23-May-2007 USTR
    US and Indonesia announce steps to deepen trade and investment relations
    United States Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab and Indonesia’s Minister of Trade Mari Pangestu today agreed to formally establish working groups intended to deepen US-Indonesia economic relations in four key areas: intellectual property rights, agricultural and industrial goods, services and investment.
  • 23-May-2007 IPS
    Trade: African countries fight EU for survival
    Anti-poverty campaigners have likened trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and several regions in Africa to a boxing match between a schoolboy novice and a heavyweight champion.
  • 23-May-2007 Reuters
    Colombia rebels target US trade pact at peace talks
    Colombia’s second largest guerrilla movement said on Tuesday it would agree to a cease-fire if the government dropped a free-trade pact signed in November with the United States.
  • 23-May-2007 ABS-CBN
    RP-Japan pact won’t allow toxic dumping
    Japan will give formal assurance to Philippine senators that it will not dump toxic and hazardous waste on the Philippines in an attempt to convince them to ratify the controversial Japan- Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
  • 22-May-2007 FreshPlaza
    India, New Zealand to initiate free trade pact
    India and New Zealand have initiated steps to ink a free trade agreement (FTA) but it could be a while before this becomes a reality.
  • 22-May-2007 Yonhap
    Prime minister rules out FTA renegotiation with US
    Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Tuesday that his government will not renegotiate the free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, even if the US government requests it.
  • 22-May-2007 PECC
    Dealing with domestic conflicts in FTA negotiations: Lessons from the Korea-Chile FTA and NAFTA
    The most significant constraint in FTA negotiations is not international negotiation between two governments, but domestic negotiation with various domestic constituencies, such as organized farmers and labor, the national assembly, NGOs, etc. This paper analyzes the domestic conflicts that arise in FTA negotiations in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly focusing on the US, Japan, China and Korea.