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  • 21-Jul-2006 Asia Pulse
    Pakistan edges closer to FTA with South American trade bloc
    Pakistani Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan will visit Argentina and Brazil for the signing of the Framework Agreement on Trade between Pakistan and Mercosur - a customs union comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela and Uruguay.
  • 21-Jul-2006 Economic Times
    Mega FTA with Mercosur, SA union on cards
    Even as the Indian government faces the heat over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on farmers, a detailed plan for the country’s first trilateral FTA has landed up at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s doorstep.
  • 21-Jul-2006 Open Democracy
    South America: towards union or disintegration?
    Is South American integration doomed, as much of the press reports? Or is there steady progress towards wider and deeper union, as the agenda of the Mercosur summit in Cordoba, Argentina, on 20-21 July, suggests?
  • 21-Jul-2006 Prensa Latina
    CentAm: FTA violates right to live
    The free trade agreement between the US and Central America will have a negative effect on the human right to live, according to a thesis by regional analysts in Guatemala.
  • 21-Jul-2006 Hankyoreh
    National Assembly committee demands free trade data
    A Korea National Assembly committee said it would request data from the government regarding agricultural, fishing, and livestock products discussed at South Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.
  • 21-Jul-2006 Reuters
    House narrowly approves trade deal with Oman
    The US House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly approved a free trade pact with the Gulf Arab state of Oman, after a debate focused on the safety of US ports and protections for Omani workers.
  • 21-Jul-2006 Business Times
    Rafidah: US investors adequately protected
    International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said Malaysia’s existing regulations on IP protection provide adequate protection for US investors, helping its negotiation on free trade agreement (FTA) with the US.
  • 20-Jul-2006 Petra
    Jordan, Turkey conclude fourth round of talks on free trade agreement
    Jordan and Turkey on Wednesday concluded the fourth round of talks on free trade agreement.
  • 20-Jul-2006 Economic Times
    India within striking distance of big bang trade pact with EU
    A CECA with EU may look like an alphabet soup, but would spell a whole new range of opportunities for Indian enterprises and professionals. High on its success with the comprehensive economic co-operation agreement (CECA) with Singapore, the government is now planning a similar deal with the 25-member European Union.
  • 20-Jul-2006 People’s Daily
    Zimbabwean private sector urged to exploit bilateral trade agreements
    The private sector in Zimbabwe has been urged to exploit the various bilateral trade agreements that the country has signed with its trading partners.
  • 20-Jul-2006 Embassy
    Canada still wants US-style treatment in Central American trade deal
    A Canadian team travels to Guatemala to try to restart stalled trade agreement while Guatemala’s foreign minister shows up in Ottawa.
  • 20-Jul-2006 Global Research
    Thinking the unthinkable about Canada’s future
    With the thorough integration of the Canadian and US economies through NAFTA, and a common military command and control structure, Canadian sovereignty will cease to exist by definition.
  • 20-Jul-2006 Bangkok Post
    FTAs may not be worth their weight, says academic
    Thailand’s benefits from bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) may not be worth the cost, according to an academic.
  • 20-Jul-2006 People’s Daily
    Chilean legislators ratify FTA with China
    Legislators in Chile’s lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved a free trade agreement with China. The agreement, China’s first with a Latin American nation, now passes to the Senate for final ratification.
  • 19-Jul-2006 Arab Times
    Guiterrez holds talks with Kuwaiti officials
    US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez met today with HH the Amir of Kuwait to discuss the Kuwaiti-American commercial dialogue and Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA).
  • 19-Jul-2006 Reuters
    Pakistan to sign FTAs with Singapore, China, Malaysia
    Pakistan will sign free trade agreements (FTA) with Singapore, China and Malaysia by the end of 2006, the country’s commerce minister said on Tuesday.
  • 19-Jul-2006 Hankyoreh
    Dreaming of a different kind of FTA
    NGOs such as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief suggest a new FTA as an alternative of unfair trade situations. The new FTA is not a free trade agreement, but rather a "fair trade agreement."
  • 19-Jul-2006 Economic Times
    FTA stalemate derails plan for Malaysian pact
    The standoff between India and the Asean over the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has started rubbing over to India’s bilateral relations with individual Asean members.
  • 19-Jul-2006 San Francisco Chronicle
    Still no deal to get Russia into WTO
    The United States is the sole remaining large WTO member that hasn’t signed a bilateral pre-admission deal with Russia.
  • 19-Jul-2006 Dominican Today
    DR and Panama make advances on a commerce treaty
    Dominican ambassador in Panama, Virgilio Alvarez Bonilla, affirmed that governments from both nations are making advances in the negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement, which in his esteem, will be ready to be implemented by the beginning of next year.