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  • 12-Feb-2007 Bangkok Post
    Activists want waste provisions to be removed from agreement
    Activists have called on Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly to remove trade in waste and micro-organism patenting from the Japan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 10-Feb-2007 KoA
    No FTA newsletter (KoA)
    Korean protest delegation sets off for Washington, DC; Farmers, livestock raisers, and civil society groups protest beef import talks, 13 arrested; The undemocratic character of the FTA negotiations process
  • 10-Feb-2007 Final Call
    Imported chicken cripples economy in western Africa
    Europeans love chicken breast. What do they do with the chicken legs? The current answer: Freeze them and ship them to Africa where they sell at a price far cheaper than fresh local chicken.
  • 10-Feb-2007
    Endorsement for “US civil society declaration on the KOR-US FTA” requested
    A US civil society statement on the Korea-US FTA written in collaboration between the AFL-CIO and Korean Americans for Fair Trade, and endorsed by the Alliance for Responsible Trade. Organizational endorsement is requested by 12 February 2007.
  • 10-Feb-2007 USINDO Brief
    Toward a US-Indonesia free trade agreement
    A potential bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and Indonesia is the subject of an upcoming study, “Toward a US-Indonesia Free Trade Agreement”, by Gary Hufbauer and Sjamsu Rahardja. Hufbauer and David Katz of the US Trade Representative discussed the potential economic benefits an FTA would mean for both countries, areas that would need to be addressed to successfully conclude an FTA, as well as political prospects for such an agreement.
  • 10-Feb-2007 AFP
    Malaysia, US free trade talks bog down
    Talks for a free trade agreement between the US and Malaysia are bogged down in sensitive issues and are unlikely to meet a crucial deadline to forge to deal, according to a senior US official.
  • 10-Feb-2007 KCTU
    The road to an undesirable deal: A report to US Congress
    The Korea-US FTA will make living conditions more difficult for people living in both countries. This report covers seven main concerns and presents three individual cases. Our analysis shows that the proposed agreement will disproportionately hurt working families, widen the income gap, limit public services, and undermine culture and the environment in South Korea.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Miami Herald
    Business leaders warn of battle over free-trade pacts
    Business groups prepare to fight for US approval of free-trade agreements with the Americas
  • 9-Feb-2007 Swedish Board of Agriculture
    Agriculture and development in the EPA negotiations
    This December 2006 study from the Swedish Board of Agriculture aims to shed light on various issues related to the EPA regions’ and the EU’s export and import interests in the agro-food sector.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Jakarta Post
    RI, Japan to meet in Tokyo this month to finalize EPA deal
    "We have finished about 90 percent of the content. But regarding quality, the remaining 10 percent is of much greater significance," Indonesia’s chief negotiator Sumadi Brotodiningrat said.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Al-Ahram
    Still allies, more or less
    The issue of an Egyptian-American free trade agreement figured prominently on the agenda of talks between Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rashid Mohamed Rashid and US Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Sampson last week.
  • 9-Feb-2007 jurnalo
    EU seeks ASEAN investors for new member states
    The European Union is seeking ASEAN investors for its new member states with a free trade agreement in the pipeline, the ambassador of the EU Commission said in a broadcast report on Wednesday.
  • 9-Feb-2007 TWN Africa
    Memorandum to the European Commission from 30 000 citizens at the World Social Forum
    We the people attending the World Social Forum (WSF) are here today to call on the European Commission to stop negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA’s) with our governments.
  • 9-Feb-2007 People’s Weekly World Newspaper
    Another fast track to the unemployment line?
    President Bush has asked Congress for approval of "fast track" authority. For most workers, "fast track" is the code word for giving the capitalists the opportunity to move more jobs out of the country.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Hankyoreh
    S Korea to seek ’package’ free trade deal with US, trade minister says
    South Korea said Thursday it plans to make a "package deal" on antidumping rules, automobiles and other key pending issues in next week’s free trade talks with the United States.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Business Times
    Malaysia, US to take contentious issues ’off the table’
    Malaysia and the US have agreed to take contentious issues "off the table" in their ongoing (free trade agreement) FTA negotiations, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said.
  • 9-Feb-2007 TomPaine.com
    A new fast track for unfair trade
    If a US-Korea trade deal is signed next week, Congress has an opportunity to vote it down. Social movements in South Korea and the United States must ensure that Congress is not reading outdated rhetoric claiming the limitless benefits of free capital.
  • 9-Feb-2007 The Nation
    FTA with EU may cut Burma out
    A planned free-trade agreement (FTA) between Asean and the European Union hit a snag recently, as the EU might not sign if the agreement includes Burma, says a senior Thai official.
  • 9-Feb-2007 WEED
    Stop unfair trade deals between Europe and ACP countries!
    Open letter by more than 180 European NGOs to German Chancellor Angela Merkel
  • 8-Feb-2007 Malaysiakini
    FTA - The poor fear for their future
    A 52-year-old rubber tapper from Semenyih rode on a bus for more than an hour to bring his concerns to the doorstep of the United States embassy in Kuala Lumpur today.