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22-Sep-2006
Tuesday’s bloodless coup in Thailand has left a free-trade agreement negotiated between Tokyo and Bangkok up in the air, a senior Japanese official said Thursday as businesses waited for the dust to settle.
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22-Sep-2006
Chile and Japan have negotiated a free trade agreement that among other facilities will sever bilateral exchange tariffs by 92 percent.
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22-Sep-2006
A proposed free-trade deal between Australia and Japan is looking shaky, with agriculture again the most contentious issue.
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22-Sep-2006
Reuters
France intends to target the Gulf, India, Asia and the Mediterranean basin in a push towards bilateral trade deals following the collapse of global free trade talks, Trade Minister Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.
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22-Sep-2006
MercoPress
A council of Andean foreign ministers yesterday approved Chile’s re-entry to the Andean Community of Nations trade group after a three-decade absence.
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22-Sep-2006
Ohmynews
BITs are generally crafted as political documents and quite often contain no mention of development. Western countries prefer to prioritize investment. If a development objective is involved, it is often generalized to the exclusion of any role for government.
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22-Sep-2006
Prensa Latina
Hundreds of Uruguayan workers marched July 18 in front of the Economy Ministry in this capital to reject signing of a US free trade treaty.
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22-Sep-2006
AP
Japan’s Cabinet approved a bilateral free trade pact with Chile on Friday, an official said.
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21-Sep-2006
Colombia and Chile will sign a free-trade agreement on Nov. 27 instead of in January as originally announced because negotiations are going faster than expected, President Alvaro Uribe said in New York on Thursday.
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21-Sep-2006
South America’s Mercosur bloc will resume negotiations with the European Union on a free trade deal in late October, following the suspension of talks last year, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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21-Sep-2006
Uruguay Labor groups demanding higher wages and an end to Uruguayan efforts for a trade deal with Washington walked off the job for four hours on Thursday, though public transport ran normally and shops and offices stayed open.
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21-Sep-2006
A free-trade deal Ottawa is negotiating with South Korea could cost Canada up to 33,000 jobs — including 4,000 in the auto industry — this country’s largest private sector union warned yesterday.
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21-Sep-2006
Japan and six Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia on Thursday began the first round of talks on a free trade agreement, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
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21-Sep-2006
A majority of Indian secondary copper smelters based in Sri Lanka are winding up their operations in that country because of economic problem as well as threat perception over local environmental issues.
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21-Sep-2006
Regarding the proposed South Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), the true "stance" of the nation’s two main political parties seems to be, "if it succeeds, we are for it. If it fails, we are against it".
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21-Sep-2006
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ruled in favor of the State of Hungary in a case brought against it by Norwegian telco Telenor, business daily Világgazdaság reported on Monday.
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21-Sep-2006
Japan and Chile have agreed on a bilateral free trade pact, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
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21-Sep-2006
The Federal Government has flagged the possibility of negotiations for a free trade agreement with Japan, beginning in December.
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21-Sep-2006
A PowerPoint file presented at the FTA Workshop in Bangkok on July 28, 2006.
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21-Sep-2006
Hankyoreh
Politicians tend to be very backward looking people. They are usually the
last to notice important trends and to recognize the ways in which the world
is changing. Perhaps this is why many politicians in South Korea place such
a high priority on a new trade agreement with the United States.
