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  • 26-Aug-2006
    Thailand hopes to resume FTA talks with S. Korea before next Asean Summit
    Thailand, the sole Asean country yet to sign the grouping’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, hopes to resume negotiations with Seoul before the Asean Summit in Cebu in December.
  • 26-Aug-2006 ABS-CBN
    US signs trade pact with ASEAN
    The United States on Friday signed a trade and investment pact with Southeast Asia in a bid to bolster its influence in the region, which is growing closer to China.
  • 26-Aug-2006 The Economist
    Pisco sour
    Little by little, South America is dividing itself into two very different trade blocks. Mercosur, based on Brazil and Argentina and recently joined by Venezuela, is relatively protectionist and suspicious of bilateral trade deals with the United States. Most countries on the Pacific seaboard are committed to free trade with both el norte and Asia.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    A bridge between Asia and South America
    In the last few months, Chile has made it clear that it intends to become a trade platform between the vast Asia Pacific region and the Andean countries, by means of trade treaties and political integration. Prompt re-entry into the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) would be a step in that direction.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    US: No plans to begin new trade talks
    The United States has no plans to begin new bilateral free trade negotiations with other nations, and will focus on successfully concluding the four it is actively pursuing, Washington’s top trade envoy said Friday.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    India offers economic pact to Nepal
    India has offered to deepen its bilateral trade relations with Nepal by mooting a comprehensive economic parternship agreement (CEPA) to include services and investment. It has also offered to negotiate a more liberal bilateral investment promotion and protection agreement (BIPPA).
  • 25-Aug-2006
    ASEAN countries accept N. Korean park in free trade deal with S. Korea
    ASEAN countries agreed to accept South Korea’s request to recognize some products from a North Korean industrial park as South Korean as part of their plan for a free trade pact, officials here said Thursday.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Asean-Australia-NZ FTA may be concluded in 2007
    The Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks could be concluded in 2007, despite some wrangling over issues like government procurements and environment.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Plan B: keep talking
    Having initiated the idea of a free trade agreement with China, the Howard Government has been stung by its implications and has fallen back to a strategy of caution and protracted negotiation that will extend beyond the 2007 national election.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Bush asks congress to approve trade agreement with Colombia
    President George W. Bush asked US congress to approve a free trade agreement with Colombia, saying it would strengthen a democracy in Latin America.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Singapore, China to launch talks for bilateral FTA
    Singapore and China will start negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 25-Aug-2006
    M’sia among top priority countries for US in FTA negotiations
    Malaysia is among the few countries given priority by the United States in its free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations before the expiry of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), said US Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Australia wants access to Malaysian govt procurement market in trade deal
    Australia wants access to Malaysia’s government procurement market, which currently favors the country’s majority ethnic Malays, enshrined in a free trade deal, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said.
  • 25-Aug-2006 FAS
    Trade agreements work for America
    Gains to US trade from FTAs, as of July 2006.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    AMCHAM M’sia denies patent provisions in US FTAs
    The American-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM Malaysia) Thursday refuted press reports that the US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in Chile and Singapore seeks to extend patents for 30 to 40 years through TRIPS-Plus.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Rules of origin regulations no hinderance, says NZ’s Goff
    Asean’s plan to narrow the gap on rules of origin regulations pose no hinderance to the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with New Zealand and Australia.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    India to review sensitive list, says Nath
    Despite the tense negotiations behind doors, India said it will now study Asean’s sensitive list comprising 1,900 goods before pursuing its free trade negotiations with the 10-member grouping.
  • 24-Aug-2006 Choike
    US-Uruguay free trade agreement
    Two articles by Roberto Bissio, analysing the irreparable mistakes that Uruguay could be making in case of signing an FTA with the United States with regards to the imposition of intellectual property regulations and the opening of state services to competition.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Deng pushes for US FTA talks next year
    An official expressed the hope on Tuesday that Taiwan and the US could start negotiations on the signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) next spring.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    ASEAN, India agree to resume FTA talks
    ASEAN today requested that India make further tariff concessions in its list of goods and services offered under a beleaguered Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as the two sides agreed to resume FTA talks suspended by the 10-member grouping because of alleged lack of progress.