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28-Nov-2006
CNA
Taiwan has completed free trade agreement (FTA) consultations on all issues, including country of origin and market access issues, with El Salvador and Honduras.
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28-Nov-2006
FT
Despite public rhetoric that new trade agreements with some of the world’s poorest countries are a development tool, in private the European Union is insisting on excluding aid from the negotiations.
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27-Nov-2006
A resolution has been filed by the progressive party-list block in Congress
urging the Senate to junk the controversial Japan-Philippine Economic
Partnership Agreement for being ’one-sided, onerous and inimical to national
interest.’
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27-Nov-2006
Davao Today
Most of the bananas from Davao are exported to Japan by Japanese companies such as Sumitomo. These companies and their contract growers or affiliates in Mindanao will benefit from any lowered tariff under JPEPA, not the farmers and plantation workers.
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26-Nov-2006
IP Watch
In its bilateral negotiation with the United States in order to join the World Trade Organization, Russia appears to have agreed to intellectual property rights standards that push those of the WTO and US law to new levels.
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26-Nov-2006
Channel News Asia
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Singapore have agreed to start negotiations for a free trade agreement.
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26-Nov-2006
Boston Herald
Thousands of South Korean workers demonstrated Saturday against a proposed free-trade agreement between their country and the United States.
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25-Nov-2006
Reuters
Bahrain has banned strikes and worker demonstrations in most business sectors, a month after labour law reforms banning the sacking of strikers encouraged a wave of trade union activity in the Gulf island state.
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25-Nov-2006
Channel News Asia
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf oversaw the signing of a landmark free trade deal Friday and vowed to take the allies’ "evergreen" relationship to new heights.
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24-Nov-2006
On December 11, 2003, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Japan
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi agreed to formally start negotiations for a comprehensive bilateral agreement called the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
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24-Nov-2006
A statement released by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) lists out the government’s position as well as the state of play in the various areas of its negotiations on an FTA with the US.
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24-Nov-2006
CPTech
Last Thursday at CPTech a packed audience and 8 panelists discussed strategies for addressing the access to medicine implications of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) between the US and other countries.
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24-Nov-2006
Industry Week
We cannot eat disk drives, says Prime Minister.
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23-Nov-2006
The 5th ACP Summit
The 5th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) will be held in Khartoum, Sudan, on 7 and 8 December around the theme “United for peace, solidarity and sustainable development”.
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23-Nov-2006
MCOT
Commerce Minister Krirkkrai Jirapaet on Wednesday reiterated that Thailand would not sign an ASEAN-Korea free trade area (FTA) agreement unless Korea agrees to liberalise its policies on agricultural products, especially rice.
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23-Nov-2006
ANBA
Egypt will be ready to create free trade area with Europe in three years, announced prime minister Ahmed Nazif. The Arab country already has a tariff preference agreement with the EU, but it does not include all products traded.
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23-Nov-2006
MercoPress
United States signed Wednesday a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia. The agreement must now face approval by both countries legislatures.
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23-Nov-2006
Yonhap
South Korea’s state prosecution said Thursday it will clamp down on farmers and activists who stage violent protests against a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.
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23-Nov-2006
Washington Post
Tens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and labor strikes Wednesday to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions.
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22-Nov-2006
Bilateral Trade Agreements (BTAs) have been proliferating. Why are they so popular? What are their impacts on multilateralism and the world trading system? This papers attempts to answer these questions.
