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  • 26-May-2007 Monsters and critics
    EU and ACP states vow to clinch free trade deals by end-year
    The European Union and 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states vowed Friday to clinch free-trade deals by end- 2007, defying critics who say the agreements will not help fight poverty.
  • 26-May-2007 Reuters
    Colombia says will work with US Democrats on deal
    Colombia accepts proposed U.S. changes to a free trade agreement and is ready to take additional steps to address concerns of Democrats in Congress, the country’s vice president said on Thursday.
  • 26-May-2007 Hankyoreh
    The Korea-US FTA and fragile economic sovereignty
    The actual document that is slated to be ratified as the free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States has been made public. As expected, there were quite a few sections the public never knew about that would be disadvantageous for Korea.
  • 26-May-2007 Yonhap
    US trade committees give mixed reviews to proposed Korea-US FTA
    American advisory committees gave divided and mixed evaluations of a proposed South Korea-US free trade agreement, the opinions sometimes differing even within an industry.
  • 26-May-2007 IPS
    Uganda: More time needed for EPA negotiations
    Uganda has made little progress in its economic partnership agreement (EPA) negotiations with the European Union (EU), as government and the private sector say that they need more time before committing to a deal.
  • 26-May-2007 Western Farmer-Stockman
    US-S Korea FTA means $10 more per pig
    The White House has made details of the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement available to the public, and according to the National Pork Producers Council, US pork producers have a lot to be happy about: an additional $10 per pig as a result.
  • 26-May-2007 Yonhap
    S Korea, US publicize full text of FTA, reignite controversy
    South Korea and the United States on Friday released the full text of their free trade agreement, a disclosure that reignited controversy here as critics say the accord will only benefit American companies, while destroying the lives of Korean farmers and other workers.
  • 26-May-2007 Pak Tribune
    APHC appeals to EU to cancel free trade agreement with India
    All Parties Hurriyat Conference senior leader and Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement Zaffar Akabar Bhat on Thursday appealed the European Union to cancel the FTA with India due to its poor human rights record across the Occupied Jammu and Kashmir where, from the last 18 years Indian soldiers are not only killing the innocent people but also disappearing the youth and dumping them in fake encounters aimed at converting the majority of Muslim population into minority .
  • 25-May-2007 Daily Times
    EC rules out Pak-EU FTA in near future
    The European Commission on Thursday ruled out the possibility of a Pak-EU FTA in the near future and said that this requires a detailed review and better understanding of the proposal.
  • 25-May-2007 USTR
    US-Korea FTA (2007)
  • 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.