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  • 30-May-2007
    Merchandise FTA with five ASEAN countries to take effect next month
    A merchandise free trade agreement between South Korea and five member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will take effect on June 1, officials said Wednesday.
  • 30-May-2007
    Trade talks setback
    Ministers from India and Oman offered different views on the progress of free-trade talks between India and Gulf countries, although both officials yesterday said a deal was achievable.
  • 30-May-2007
    Bilateral trade between Malaysia and South Korea to rise further
    Bilateral trade between Malaysia and South Korea is expected to increase further with the completion of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Asean and South Korea this year.
  • 30-May-2007
    Pak-Malaysia to sign FTA within two months: Humayun
    Minister for Commerce, Humayun Akhtar Khan said on Wednesday said that Pakistan -Malaysia have concluded negotiations on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and it will be signed within next two - month for improving trade and investment between them. "The initiative includes trade in goods, trade in services , investment and Economic cooperation", he told a press conference here at a local hotel today.
  • 30-May-2007
    New EU market access offer unacceptable - region’s sugar group
    The Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC) is calling for a substantial improvement in the current access of sugar to the European Union (EU) market.
  • 30-May-2007
    Business Chambers: We’ll Open Books When Asked
    Representatives from Costa Rican business chambers said yesterday that they’re happy to publish information on campaign donations for the upcoming free-trade referendum - but only if the Supreme Elections Tribunal (TSE) asks them to do so.
  • 30-May-2007
    Chrysler opposes proposed FTA with South Korea
    American automotive giant Chrysler Group expressed opposition Tuesday to a proposed South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA), saying the accord fails to motivate the Asian nation enough to open its market to American-made cars.
  • 30-May-2007
    Join FTA, Comesa Urges Member States
    The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has urged member states to join the Free Trade Area before the launch of the Customs Union in December to enable the region to fully achieve trade and customs growth.
  • 30-May-2007
    Political parties oppose renegotiation of S. Korea-U.S. FTA
    South Korea’s political parties said Wednesday that renegotiating a recent trade deal with the United States is unacceptable.
  • 30-May-2007 Latin Business Chronicle
    EU trade with Latin America sets new record
    European trade with Latin America will grow as a result of growing interest among companies on each side of the Atlantic, as will European investment in the region, which is already growing significantly. And while free trade agreements with Central America and the Andean Community will help boost EU trade with Latin America, the big prize is Mercosur.
  • 29-May-2007
    India, Brazil aim to strengthen bonds
    One of the major outcomes of the visit of the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s visit a couple of years ago (2004) was the signing of a market access treaty that established tariff preferences between India and the countries of Mercosur (Southern Common Market), made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Brazil’s Mercosur partners sent representatives as part of Lula’s retinue.
  • 29-May-2007
    EPAs could be signed by December
    Despite the unpreparedness of West African governments to negotiate the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union, there are clear indications that the EPAs will be signed by the December 31, 2007 deadline, Tetteh Hormeku, Head of Programmes at Third World Network, has said.
  • 29-May-2007
    ‘Speed up FTA talks with GCC countries’
    Serious differences surfaced between commerce minister Kamal Nath and Oman commerce minister Maqbool Ali Sultan on Tuesday over the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and GCC countries.
  • 29-May-2007
    Comesa can do more for Africa
    The just concluded Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Heads of States Summit in Nairobi seemed to confirm the existence of an uneven playing field in global trade.
  • 29-May-2007
    Emerson floats Free-trade prospect
    Canada’s ultimate goal in its deepening economic relations with China will be a free-trade deal with the Asian juggernaut, International Trade Minister David Emerson said yesterday.
  • 29-May-2007
    Labor violence blocks a US-Colombia trade deal
    Free trade agreements with Peru and Panama now seem headed toward approval in the US Congress, after the Bush administration agreed to incorporate the basic labor standards long insisted upon by House Democrats. But a separate trade pact with Colombia rightly remains in legislative limbo over a much starker labor problem.
  • 29-May-2007
    Pakistan and Malaysia sign trade agreement
    Malaysia will allow import of Pakistan’s textile products free of duty under a new free trade agreement.
  • 29-May-2007
    Uribe asks US not to punish Colombia
    President Alvaro Uribe has urged the US not to punish Colombia by denying it a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) or reducing military aid because of a deepening political scandal that is engulfing his government.
  • 29-May-2007
    Oman disappointed with pace of Indo-GCC FTA talks
    Oman today expressed disappointment with the slow pace of talks on Free Trade Agreement between India and the Gulf Cooperative Council and asked officials of both sides to take it up on priority.
  • 29-May-2007
    JPEPA to cost RP P4B in foregone revenues
    The Philippines’ Finance department expects its most recent trade agreement with Japan to cost P4 billion a year in lost duties from Japanese imports.