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  • 14-Sep-2006
    Beijing condemns protectionism
    China has voiced its concern over increasing trade protectionism by its counterparts, which it sees as the main threat to its competitiveness in the world market.
  • 14-Sep-2006 India Together
    The ’free trade’ explosion
    With the World Trade talks in limbo, the focus remains on aggressively pushing on the bilateral front. What could not be achieved through a multilateral trade regime, is now being pursued by the US through bilateral and regional deals. Devinder Sharma connects the dots.
  • 14-Sep-2006 Mainichi
    Japan to prepare safeguard against imports from Philippines
    Japan’s Ministry of Finance said Wednesday that it plans to amend customs-related laws and ordinances to enable Japan to invoke emergency restrictions on imports from the Philippines.
  • 14-Sep-2006 Donga
    Labor leader explains anti-FTA stance
    Interview with the president of AFL-CIO, John Sweeney, on the US-Korea FTA.
  • 14-Sep-2006 PIB
    Joint declaration of first IBSA Summit
    The Prime Minister of India, H.E. Manmohan Singh, the President of Brazil, H.E. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the President of South Africa, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, expressed their full support and commitment to the expeditious establishment of the Working Group to focus on the modalities for the envisaged India-Mercosur-SACU Trilateral Free Trade Agreement (T-FTA).
  • 14-Sep-2006 INQ7
    KMU sees more retrenchment with new RP-Japan trade pact
    The militant Filipino labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) said it fears more retrenchments and lower wages with the impending liberalization of the country’s automotive and steel sectors under the recently signed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
  • 13-Sep-2006
    Fiction and fact: an IBSA pact
    IBSA will be a powerful bloc in south-south cooperation with echoes of ‘non-alignment’ in earlier times but from the economic point of view, IBSA is a little fictitious” was Union minister of state for commerce Jairam Ramesh’s reported take on this regional formation that includes India-Brazil-South Africa just ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Brazil and Cuba to attend an IBSA and NAM summit.
  • 13-Sep-2006
    U.S. presses Korea to improve ag offer in trade talks
    South Korea needs to make a much better offer to open up its agricultural sector to U.S. imports in talks aimed at reaching a free trade agreement by the end of the year, a U.S. trade official said on Monday.
  • 13-Sep-2006
    Political leadership needed to iron out differences in FTA
    The third round of Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA) talks in Seattle ended Sunday without producing any practical progress on core issues. While the negotiation result is disappointing, it is not totally unexpected, given the inhospitable conditions of the negotiations.
  • 13-Sep-2006
    More FTAs and shift from traditional markets to help Singapore tap Middle East money
    Singapore asset managers have not been more actively seeking opportunities in the Middle-East because the market is still relatively new.
  • 13-Sep-2006
    Organizations release monitoring report assessing impact of CAFTA ’free’ trade agreement
    Members of Congress, solidarity organizations, leaders of the DC-area Salvadoran community, and student and faith-based groups held a press conference to announce the release of a report monitoring the effects of the US-Dominican Republic Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).
  • 13-Sep-2006
    Rann wants China FTA on COAG agenda
    The South Australian Government is pushing for debate on the proposed China free trade agreement at the next premiers’ meeting, worried the deal could hurt Australia’s manufacturing sector.
  • 13-Sep-2006
    Private sector urged to speak up
    A national call has gone out to the Barbados private sector, asking it to speak out as free trade negotiations between the region and the European Union (EU) near the final phase.
  • 13-Sep-2006
    Philippine FTA to reshape health care
    The free-trade agreement clinched with the Philippines on Saturday will test whether Japan is serious about opening its labor market, a change that would trade homogeneity for a more youthful workforce.
  • 13-Sep-2006
    Japan-Philippines FTA (JPEPA) (2006)
  • 13-Sep-2006 Economic Times
    Asean wants 600 items in free trade negative list
    Asean has come up with a composite negative list of 600 products for the proposed Indo-Asean free trade agreement.
  • 13-Sep-2006 New Straits Times
    Farmers losing out in free trade mart
    Foreign food products are making their way into the country under the Free Trade Agreements and market liberalisation, while Malaysian products are struggling to penetrate foreign markets.
  • 13-Sep-2006 Easy Bourse
    EU officials to discuss Asian trade deal with Philippines
    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European trade chief Peter Mandelson will discuss plans Tuesday with Philippine officials for an ambitious trade agreement between the European Union and a group of Southeast Asian countries, EU officials said.
  • 13-Sep-2006 Gulf Times
    Mauritius to sign trade deals with India, Pak
    Mauritius expects to sign trade deals with India and Pakistan in October and November, according to minutes of a cabinet meeting seen yesterday.
  • 13-Sep-2006 IHT
    Hanoi sets Japan talks
    The prime ministers of Japan and Vietnam agreed Monday to launch talks on a free trade agreement between the two countries, Japanese officials said.