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  • 27-Nov-2006 Davao Today
    Furor over JPEPA: Will Davao’s banana workers benefit from it?
    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.
  • 26-Nov-2006 IP Watch
    US-Russia bilateral/WTO deal pushes new standards for IP protection
    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.
  • 26-Nov-2006 Channel News Asia
    GCC and Singapore to start talks on FTA
    The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Singapore have agreed to start negotiations for a free trade agreement.
  • 26-Nov-2006 Boston Herald
    Thousands rally in South Korean capital against free trade with US
    Thousands of South Korean workers demonstrated Saturday against a proposed free-trade agreement between their country and the United States.
  • 25-Nov-2006 Reuters
    Bahrain bans strikes a month after allowing them
    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.
  • 25-Nov-2006 Channel News Asia
    China, Pakistan sign free trade agreement
    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.
  • 24-Nov-2006
    Briefing Paper on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA)
    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).
  • 24-Nov-2006
    Malaysia lays out position on FTA with US
    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.
  • 24-Nov-2006 CPTech
    CPTech hosts post-election FTA strategy session
    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.
  • 24-Nov-2006 Industry Week
    Free trade deals give Singapore insurance
    We cannot eat disk drives, says Prime Minister.
  • 23-Nov-2006 The 5th ACP Summit
    ACP Heads of State and Government will meet in Khartoum (Sudan) on 7 and 8 December for their 5th 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”.
  • 23-Nov-2006 MCOT
    Thailand asks Korea to liberalise agricultural trade terms
    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.
  • 23-Nov-2006 ANBA
    Egypt will be ready for free trade with Europe in three years
    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.
  • 23-Nov-2006 MercoPress
    US-Colombia trade agreement must face Congress
    United States signed Wednesday a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia. The agreement must now face approval by both countries legislatures.
  • 23-Nov-2006 Yonhap
    Prosecution warns of crackdown on violent anti-FTA protests
    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.
  • 23-Nov-2006 Washington Post
    S Korean workers protest US trade deal
    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.
  • 22-Nov-2006
    Bilateral trade agreements and the world trading system
    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.
  • 22-Nov-2006 Via Campesina
    Reject the Economic Partnership Agreement EU-ACP!
    The member organizations of Via Campesina in Africa, in Europe and in the Caribbean consider that the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) are a new threat for the peasants and small farmers in the four regions. We ask a definitive stop in the negotiations and the opening of a period of debate and analyses on the impacts of free-trade on our national agricultures. Alternatives based on the right to food sovereignty exist.
  • 22-Nov-2006 AllAfrica.com
    Adhesion to SADC free trade zone postponed
    Angola is not yet prepared to join the free trade zone in the year 2008, under the process of regional integration of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), said Tuesday in Luanda the Planning minister, Ana Dias Lourenço.
  • 22-Nov-2006 Prensa Latina
    Chilean trade to span Asia
    Chilean President Michelle Bachelet concluded a new tour of Asia and the Pacific in search of markets.