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  • 10-Feb-2007 KCTU
    The road to an undesirable deal: A report to US Congress
    The Korea-US FTA will make living conditions more difficult for people living in both countries. This report covers seven main concerns and presents three individual cases. Our analysis shows that the proposed agreement will disproportionately hurt working families, widen the income gap, limit public services, and undermine culture and the environment in South Korea.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Miami Herald
    Business leaders warn of battle over free-trade pacts
    Business groups prepare to fight for US approval of free-trade agreements with the Americas
  • 9-Feb-2007 Swedish Board of Agriculture
    Agriculture and development in the EPA negotiations
    This December 2006 study from the Swedish Board of Agriculture aims to shed light on various issues related to the EPA regions’ and the EU’s export and import interests in the agro-food sector.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Jakarta Post
    RI, Japan to meet in Tokyo this month to finalize EPA deal
    "We have finished about 90 percent of the content. But regarding quality, the remaining 10 percent is of much greater significance," Indonesia’s chief negotiator Sumadi Brotodiningrat said.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Al-Ahram
    Still allies, more or less
    The issue of an Egyptian-American free trade agreement figured prominently on the agenda of talks between Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rashid Mohamed Rashid and US Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Sampson last week.
  • 9-Feb-2007 jurnalo
    EU seeks ASEAN investors for new member states
    The European Union is seeking ASEAN investors for its new member states with a free trade agreement in the pipeline, the ambassador of the EU Commission said in a broadcast report on Wednesday.
  • 9-Feb-2007 TWN Africa
    Memorandum to the European Commission from 30 000 citizens at the World Social Forum
    We the people attending the World Social Forum (WSF) are here today to call on the European Commission to stop negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA’s) with our governments.
  • 9-Feb-2007 People’s Weekly World Newspaper
    Another fast track to the unemployment line?
    President Bush has asked Congress for approval of "fast track" authority. For most workers, "fast track" is the code word for giving the capitalists the opportunity to move more jobs out of the country.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Hankyoreh
    S Korea to seek ’package’ free trade deal with US, trade minister says
    South Korea said Thursday it plans to make a "package deal" on antidumping rules, automobiles and other key pending issues in next week’s free trade talks with the United States.
  • 9-Feb-2007 Business Times
    Malaysia, US to take contentious issues ’off the table’
    Malaysia and the US have agreed to take contentious issues "off the table" in their ongoing (free trade agreement) FTA negotiations, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said.
  • 9-Feb-2007 TomPaine.com
    A new fast track for unfair trade
    If a US-Korea trade deal is signed next week, Congress has an opportunity to vote it down. Social movements in South Korea and the United States must ensure that Congress is not reading outdated rhetoric claiming the limitless benefits of free capital.
  • 9-Feb-2007 The Nation
    FTA with EU may cut Burma out
    A planned free-trade agreement (FTA) between Asean and the European Union hit a snag recently, as the EU might not sign if the agreement includes Burma, says a senior Thai official.
  • 9-Feb-2007 WEED
    Stop unfair trade deals between Europe and ACP countries!
    Open letter by more than 180 European NGOs to German Chancellor Angela Merkel
  • 8-Feb-2007 Malaysiakini
    FTA - The poor fear for their future
    A 52-year-old rubber tapper from Semenyih rode on a bus for more than an hour to bring his concerns to the doorstep of the United States embassy in Kuala Lumpur today.
  • 8-Feb-2007 Houston Chronicle
    Cattle farmers protest US-South Korea beef talks
    Korean cattle farmers protested today as US and South Korean officials discussed easing restrictions on imports of American beef, an issue Washington says threatens to scuttle a possible free trade agreement.
  • 7-Feb-2007 Bernama
    GPKK demonstrates against FTA outside US Embassy
    The Coalition of Factory Workers and Trade Unions (GPKK) demonstrated for half-an-hour outside the United States embassy, here Wednesday to protest against the on-going Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiation which it claimed violated the rights of the lower-income group.
  • 7-Feb-2007 IPS
    Malaysia: Iran deal clouds free trade plans with US
    A free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Malaysia, in its final round this week, has run into opposition from trade unions and also from U.S. lawmakers opposed to an energy deal struck between this country and Iran.
  • 7-Feb-2007 Taipei Times
    Senior US official dashes FTA hopes
    A senior US trade official on Tuesday dashed Taiwan’s hopes that Washington could enter into negotiations on a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) anytime soon, and said that Taiwan would have to gain strong support from the US business sector and Congress before an FTA could ever be considered.
  • 7-Feb-2007 Times of Oman
    US reaffirms commitment on FTA with Oman
    The United States yesterday reaffirmed its commitment for expanding trade ties between the two nations and implementing the free trade agreement (FTA) as early as possible.
  • 7-Feb-2007 Channel News Asia
    Taiwan asks US to use security law as model for FTA
    Taiwan has asked the United States to use a special law that commits American defence to Taipei as a framework for forging a free trade agreement between the two economies.