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  • 18-Oct-2006 News from Bangladesh
    Study suggests Bangladesh to ink FTAs with India, Pakistan
    A new study says Bangladesh should sign Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with India and Pakistan, but fails to identify what the FTAs would have in addition to South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA).
  • 18-Oct-2006 People’s Daily
    China, ROK agree to start negotiations on free trade area
    China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Friday agreed to start negotiations on a free trade area (FTA) as soon as possible.
  • 18-Oct-2006 People’s Daily
    Free trade agreement with Australia within two years: official
    China and Australia are looking to make substantial progress in free trade negotiations with the aim of signing an agreement within two years, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Chong Quan said on Monday.
  • 18-Oct-2006
    Bush to push free trade initiative at APEC summit
    US President George W. Bush is expected to push for a plan to improve the patchwork of free trade initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region at the annual APEC summit in Vietnam next month.
  • 18-Oct-2006 Bangkok Post
    Japanese ’upset by delay in FTA’
    Japanese investors have voiced concern over the Thai government’s decision to postpone a signing of the Thai-Japanese free trade area (FTA) agreement, according to the Commerce Ministry.
  • 18-Oct-2006 Houston Chronicle
    WTO’s Lamy warns about bilateral deals
    Poor nations will lose out if major global trade players opt for bilateral deals instead of working toward a global trade pact, WTO director general Pascal Lamy said Tuesday.
  • 18-Oct-2006
    Data exclusivity regulations in India
    New Indian data exclusivity patenting regulations will severely hinder generic AIDS drugs manufacturing in India, and thus less people will have access to AIDS therapy globally. The world’s poor overwhelmingly make up this population with lack of access. Because of this, moral human rights and distributive justice approaches should compel India to take an equity-oriented approach in access to AIDS medicines and reject data exclusivity regulations currently under discussion.
  • 18-Oct-2006 Upside Down World
    Canada’s quiet free trade agreement
    One of the agreements the Canadian government is trying to finalize is the Central America Four Free Trade Agreement (CA4TA) with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
  • 17-Oct-2006 Korea Times
    Uri Party proposes FTA-for-security deal
    “Protection of US investors comes with the provision of a nuclear umbrella for Korea,” the chief policymaker of Korea’s ruling Uri Party said yesterday
  • 17-Oct-2006 Prensa Latina
    Costa Rican sectors battle US trade
    The withdrawal of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States and development of alternatives are some of the actions proposed by deputies, social organizations and sectors that oppose to the ratification of that agreement on Monday.
  • 17-Oct-2006 Hankyoreh
    US FTA may cost drug industry $1.2 billion: gov’t
    A proposed free trade agreement with the United States is expected to cost as much as 1 trillion won (US$1.2 billion) in damage to the South Korean pharmaceutical industry if the US proposal for the deal is accepted, the South Korean government said.
  • 17-Oct-2006 The Hindu
    India, ASEAN to meet next month for FTA talks
    India and ASEAN will make another attempt next month to break the deadlock in talks for a Free Trade Agreement, which if clinched would come into force in 2007.
  • 16-Oct-2006 LA Times
    Group accuses Jordan of failing to enforce labor rights
    Critics of US trade policy say the recent incidents in Jordan illustrate the dangers of forging trade agreements that don’t adequately protect workers from abuse.
  • 16-Oct-2006 The Hindu
    India must get 5% EU trade share by 2011: CII
    India needs to strive toward becoming the second or third largest partner for European Union and increase its contribution in EU trade from the present 1.5 per cent to five per cent by 2011, industry body CII said Sunday.
  • 16-Oct-2006 The Guardian
    Britain urges EU to change stance on free trade talks
    Gareth Thomas, international development minister, and Ian McCartney, minister of state for trade, are calling for the European commission to be more flexible in its approach and consider alternative agreements, should developing countries choose not to enter an EPA.
  • 16-Oct-2006 Gulf News
    GCC countries ’rush into US free trade agreements’
    The Dubai police chief said on Saturday that GCC countries that have signed bilateral free trade agreements with the United States "rushed into them".
  • 16-Oct-2006 Asia Pulse
    S. Korean farmers, activists plan anti-FTA protests next week
    More than 3,000 South Korean farmers and activists plan to hold peaceful demonstrations next week to protest against a fourth round of free trade talks with the United States, organizers said Monday.
  • 16-Oct-2006 Asia Pulse
    S. Korea to introduce import safeguards for FTA with ASEAN
    South Korea plans to introduce special safeguard measures to protect local companies from import surges that may occur once its free trade pact with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) goes into effect, the government said Monday.
  • 16-Oct-2006 AAP
    Rio lobbies for Japan free trade
    Rio Tinto Australia managing director Charlie Lenegan told an Australia-Japan business conference in Sydney today the foundation for such a treaty had been laid over the past 50 years, since the signing of a Commerce Agreement between the pair in 1957.
  • 16-Oct-2006 Jamaica Gleaner
    Time running out on European trade pacts
    When European and Caribbean Ministers meet in Brussels in November, there will be an urgent need to reach an understanding on what is achievable.