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  • 5-Jul-2007 Embassy
    Canada: Trade deals may become socially responsible
    As the Canadian government prepares to launch free trade talks with a host of developing countries, it is quietly weighing private sector attitudes on including references to corporate social responsibility in the deals.
  • 5-Jul-2007 SMH
    Australia’s trade deficit improves, but Americans have the better of us
    Australia’s yearly trade deficit with the US has blown out by more than 35 per cent since the pair signed a bilateral trade deal, with the blame falling on a rising Australian dollar and weakening consumer demand in the US.
  • 5-Jul-2007 VietNamNet Bridge
    Marching towards Vietnam-Japan FTA
    Vietnamese Minister of Trade Truong Dinh Tuyen talks about the possible impact of the Vietnam-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 4-Jul-2007
    International protest letter against the arrests of co-chairs of KoA
    On Tuesday, July 03, 2007, two Co-Chairs of the Korean Alliance against the Korea-U.S. FTA, Oh Jong-ryul and Jung Gwang-hoon, were arrested on charges of carrying out ’illegal’ and ’non-permitted’ protests against the free trade agreement between US and Korea. We call upon individuals and organziations to endorse this protest letter by 13 July 2007.
  • 3-Jul-2007
    Taiwan’s Ma seeks FTA with China
    Taiwan presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou wants closer economic ties with political rival China, including a free-trade deal and the removal of investment caps on businesses that operate on the mainland, a spokesman said on Monday.
  • 3-Jul-2007
    FTA with EU would get a boost from pally Portugal
    With Portugal taking presidency of the European Union on July 1, strong ties with India would help expedite the proposed free trade agreement between India and the EU.
  • 3-Jul-2007
    Time running out for new EU trade deal
    The trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the Eastern and Southern African (ESA) countries may not be concluded by the December 31 deadline.
  • 3-Jul-2007
    African leaders cautioned on EPAs
    Africa Trade Network and Economic Justice Network of Ghana, both civil society organisations have issued a strong warning to African Governments to desist from signing up on the EU-led Economic Partnership Agreements aimed at establishing a new WTO compatible trading arrangement, removing progressively barriers of trade between EU and Africa.
  • 3-Jul-2007
    Prime Minister panel to review FTAs
    The Prime Minister’s Trade and Economic Relations Committee is likely to meet today to decide on the level of flexibility India can have in talks on different free trade agreements the country is negotiating.
  • 3-Jul-2007
    Syria proposes FTA talks with Malaysia
    Syria has proposed negotiation on a Malaysia-Syria free trade agreement (FTA) at the first joint trade commission meeting, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said today.
  • 3-Jul-2007 WW4 Report
    Peru: trade pact approved amid protests
    On the evening of June 26, hundreds of people vigiled in Lima, Peru, to protest the efforts of the ruling Aprista party majority in Congress to push through the "addenda" of a free trade treaty between the US and Peruvian governments.
  • 3-Jul-2007 Forbes
    Ecuador official slams free trade
    Ecuador’s foreign minister said Monday it will insist on protecting national production if it resumes talks for a long-term trade agreement with the United States.
  • 2-Jul-2007 Official News of the Korean Alliance Against the Korea-US FTA
    Tens of thousands protest signing of the Korea-US FTA
    On June 29, tens of thousands of farmers, workers, and ordinary Korean people gathered throughout the country to protest the signing of the Korea-US FTA. Protests were held in major cities including Seoul, Cheonju, Gwangju, Daegu, Pusan and Changwon. In total, roughly 50,000 gathered in a powerful display of opposition to the Korea-US FTA.
  • 2-Jul-2007
    India, Japan differ on safeguards in trade pact
    As Japanese trade minister Akira Amari begins his India visit tomorrow, official-level talks on a free trade agreement last week ended with wide differences as New Delhi demanded extra safeguards for its domestic industry but Tokyo opposed such concessions.
  • 2-Jul-2007
    US-Korea FTA ’setback for Taiwan’
    The US-South Korean free trade agreement (FTA) will seriously hurt Taiwan because South Korea and Taiwan are both main trading partners of the US, the Economics Ministry said on Sunday.
  • 2-Jul-2007
    China pact a mixed blessing for Pakistan
    A free-trade agreement (FTA) signed last year between Pakistan and China came into effect on Sunday, with Islamabad announcing the first phase of a cut on 4,700 tariffs.
  • 2-Jul-2007
    Pak-China free trade agreement comes into effect
    Pakistan Ambassador to China Sulman Bashir has underlined the need for making concerted efforts to create awareness about bilateral trade agreement including Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that came into effect on Sunday.
  • 2-Jul-2007 The Star
    US FTA talks hanging in the balance
    Trading partners of the United States will have less confidence that the United States can honour trade deals it is negotiating after Congress leaders announced that they would not renew the President’s fast-track trade authority, and also rejected two FTAs.
  • 1-Jul-2007 The Nation
    ’Much more’ still after US talks
    Caribbean leaders have virtually secured an agreement from President Bush and many of the movers and shakers on Capitol Hill that they would work together, not only to extend the duty free provisions of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act and the benefits of the trade promotion legislation, but modernise and expand their partnership to include services and other vital economic sectors.
  • 1-Jul-2007 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satell...
    Iran to join Cuban-Venezuelan trade agreement
    Iran plans to join a Latin American initiative designed to counter US-led efforts for free trade in the region, the official Web site of Iran’s president office reported on Sunday.