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  • 10-May-2007 ECIPE
    Trade policy in Asia: where next with a crippled WTO and weak FTAs?
    Trade policy in Asia is dangerously unbalanced. It rests on a shaky leg of discriminatory bilateral and regional FTAs. Its other WTO leg has gone to sleep: most Asian countries have neglected the WTO in favour of FTAs. Its regional-cooperation arm is limp: grand visions for regional economic integration are mostly empty conference chatter.
  • 10-May-2007 ANTARA
    Indonesia to seek Japan’s confirmation on EPA settlement
    Indonesia will seek Japan’s confirmation regarding the settlement of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with that country, trade minister Mari Elka Pangestu said on Wednesday.
  • 10-May-2007 swissinfo
    Efta continues to extend its influence
    While world trade talks remain deadlocked, the European Free Trade Association (Efta), of which Switzerland is a member, continues to extend its network of free trade accords.
  • 9-May-2007 Jakarta Post
    Officials urged to be critical over FTA
    Fearing that the gains promised by an ASEAN-EU free trade agreement (FTA) will turn out to be little more than illusions, a discussion has urged the members of ASEAN to stick together and remain "critical" during the upcoming negotiations.
  • 9-May-2007 ITN
    Bolivia notifies World Bank of withdrawal from ICSID, pursues BIT revisions
    Investment Treaty News has learned that Bolivia has sent a formal notice to the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) declaring its withdrawal from the ICSID convention.
  • 8-May-2007 RxPG
    Treaty with Japan may legalize dumping toxic waste in India
    If the agreements negotiated by Japan with the Philippines and Thailand are anything to go by, the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that is being worked on by the two governments will open the floodgates to Japan’s municipal, medical and hazardous wastes.
  • 8-May-2007 IHT
    EU promises seeks to design bilateral trade deals that support future WTO-type pact
    The European Union will aim to design bilateral trade deals with other regions and countries that can be applied to a future world trade agreement even if last-ditch efforts to forge a global pact fail later this year, an EU trade official said Tuesday.
  • 8-May-2007 Bloomberg
    Japan should aim for free trade agreement with US, panel says
    Japan should push for a trade agreement with the US to reduce duties and investment barriers, members of the government’s key economic panel said.
  • 8-May-2007
    Brunei, US officials study ways to expand bilateral trade
    The United States trade representatives and Brunei government officials yesterday discussed how trade relations can be further expanded as well as what the US can do to support the sultanate’s efforts to diversify its economy.
  • 8-May-2007 Asia Times
    US and China tug at ASEAN unity
    ASEAN is being fragmented by intensifying US-China competition for regional influence, which is putting a premium on bilateralism with the big powers at the expense of ASEAN’s ambition toward more regional multilateralism.
  • 8-May-2007
    Delhi’s duty-free offer
    Bangladesh’s business leaders are rather dismayed at India’s recent duty-free market access offer, as they have expressed the view that mere duty-free access could not ensure free flow of goods into Indian market unless non-tariff and para-tariff barriers are removed.
  • 8-May-2007
    Qatar, Netherlands set to sign trade deals; LNG in focus
    Qatar and the Netherlands may soon sign investment protection as well as double taxation avoidance agreements as part of efforts to improve economic and political relations between them.
  • 8-May-2007
    Malaysia-US FTA at technical stage, says Rafidah
    Negotiations on the Malaysia-US Free Trade Agreement has reached the technical stage, the Dewan Negara was told Tuesday.
  • 8-May-2007 Monsters and critics
    Taiwan signs free trade pact with El Salvador, Honduras
    Taiwan has signed a free trade agreement with El Salvador and Honduras to expand trade ties between the three countries, the Bureau of Foreign Trade said on Tuesday.
  • 8-May-2007 Gulf Times
    GCC to seek further talks before EU free-trade deal
    The wording of the agreement remains undecided along with issues concerning service industries and investment rules.
  • 8-May-2007 Channel News Asia
    Ukraine, Singapore begin FTA negotiations
    Ukraine and Singapore have begun negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 8-May-2007
    ALBA: A viable key to African diaspora self-determination
    Author and former Jamaican public servant, Lloyd D. McCarthy, makes the case that both Claude McKay and Michael Manley would have supported the political and economic initiative called the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
  • 8-May-2007 AP
    Ecuador not renewing pact with US
    Ecuador’s new leftist president has decided not to renew a bilateral investment treaty with the United States, the country’s foreign minister said Monday, just days before a senior US official is due to visit.
  • 8-May-2007
    Will the trade-off be worth it?
    On the surface, the European Commission’s argument on how it sees economic partnership agreements with developing countries in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions playing out, is compelling.
  • 7-May-2007 Yonhap
    FTA with EU to hurt S Korea’s alcohol, meat, dairy sectors: report
    A free trade pact with the European Union (EU) is expected to hurt South Korea’s alcoholic beverage, meat and dairy sectors, a report by Nonghyup Management Institute, a semi-official research institute. said Monday.