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  • 19-Mar-2007
    Economist says DR-CAFTA “will bring poverty”
    Dr Emilio Cordero Michel has warned that the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Central America, known as DR-CAFTA, far from being a panacea, “will only fill the Dominican Republic with poverty and problems that we will never be able to solve”.
  • 19-Mar-2007
    Free trade pact is factor in confirmation of Prime Minister nominee
    A dark cloud hung over the confirmation of prime ministerial nominee Han Duck-soo at the National Assembly yesterday.
  • 19-Mar-2007
    Norway and Peru next trade targets
    Peru and Norway are China’s next target as trade partners even as the country is busy discussing free trade agreements (FTAs) with two dozen economies.
  • 19-Mar-2007
    Taiwan seeks support for FTA with US
    Taiwan’s representative to the WTO, Lin Yi-fu, yesterday called for Taiwanese entrepreneurs operating in the US to help drum up US support for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
  • 19-Mar-2007
    S. Korea, US remain divided in FTA agriculture talks
    Agriculture free trade talks between South Korea and the United States remained in a stalemate on Monday as neither side made any concessions on critical issues, South Korean negotiators said.
  • 19-Mar-2007 Yonhap
    Key sticking points in talks for South Korea-US free trade deal
    Chief trade negotiators from South Korea and the United States are set to meet in Washington on March 19-21 to settle their differences over sensitive issues as they are eager to conclude a free trade deal by the end of this month.
  • 19-Mar-2007 NST
    Free trade deal cannot make deadline, says US
    The United States government on Friday all but ruled out the chances of a free trade deal with Malaysia before a crucial deadline expires in two weeks.
  • 18-Mar-2007
    PM Lee to sign update to S’pore-Japan FTA
    A review of the Singapore-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has concluded very satisfactorily.
  • 18-Mar-2007
    Goff pushes Mexican trade deal
    Trade Minister Phil Goff leaves for Mexico this morning to push for a trade deal that could boost exports to New Zealand’s fourth largest market dairy market.
  • 18-Mar-2007
    NZ faces barriers to free trade deal with US - Clark
    New Zealand faces several barriers to getting a free trade deal with the United States, Prime Minister Helen Clark says.
  • 18-Mar-2007
    Is a South Asia Free Trade Agreement sailing down?
    The hoped for trade cooperation in South Asia remains a dream, six decades down the line. Even the much trumpeted South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA), by some accounts, seems to be sailing down to the sea — the Indian Ocean — unless the region’s leaders cooperate.
  • 18-Mar-2007
    KL not bound by timeframe to decide on M’sia-US FTA - Najib
    Malaysia is not bound by any timeframe to give a decision on the issues at stake in the ongoing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with the United States, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Sunday.
  • 17-Mar-2007
    EU wants new deal with ACP partners
    The European Union said it wants to complete new trade agreements with 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries by the end of the year despite opposition from developing countries.
  • 17-Mar-2007
    Fran O’Sullivan: United States owes NZ a free trade deal
    Helen Clark needs to muscle up to George Bush this week and directly push the case for a bilateral free trade deal with the United States.
  • 17-Mar-2007
    India, ASEAN to finalise negative lists in Jakarta
    India and ASEAN are likely to finalise and exchange their negative lists (items to be excluded) when they meet to conclude negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement at a three-day meeting in Jakarta from Tuesday.
  • 17-Mar-2007
    Pak-Lanka trade has doubled after FTA, says Humayun
    The ministry of commerce on Friday claimed that after the enforcement of the Pakistan-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, bilateral trade has doubled, without giving any figures in this regard.
  • 17-Mar-2007
    Anti-FTA voices slowly growing at the National Assembly
    There are growing voices of opposition within the National Assembly to a free trade pact with the United States. On Friday, 38 legislators signed a statement saying the "best thing we can do at the current juncture is to immediately halt FTA negotiations that have hastily been pursued because the government is trying to meet the U.S.-set negotiation time limit."
  • 17-Mar-2007 Business Week
    Dominican Republic warned about lawsuit
    Foreign energy investors said on Friday that they warned the Dominican Republic it had to mend its crippled power sector months before filing a US$680 million (euro510 million) lawsuit against the country for lost electricity revenue.
  • 17-Mar-2007 The New Anatolian
    New $19B arbitration case threat to Turkish government from Dutch company on Telsim sale
    Dutch investment company Saba Fakes, who claim to hold the biggest part of shares of Turkey’s second big GSM operator Telsim, is preparing to file an arbitration case at International Arbitration amounting to 19 billion dollars in reparations.
  • 17-Mar-2007 AHN
    Agriculture sticking point in Japan, Australia free trade deal
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come under increasing pressure from Japan’s farming sector not to sign a free trade deal involving agriculture with Australia.