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  • 9-Sep-2006
    Official warns DR-CAFTA could displace thousands of local dairy farmers
    Approximately 58,000 small and medium-size milk cattle owners of 10 or less milk cows would be displaced from the Dominican market as the DR-CAFTA trade accord is implemented with Central America and the United States, according to Agriculture Planning deputy minister.
  • 9-Sep-2006
    Japan, India to start EPA talks: official
    Japan expects to gain agreement from India by the end of this year to start talks on a bilateral economic partnership agreement, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
  • 9-Sep-2006
    Medical workers may be losers in FTA
    Philippine officials may be upbeat about finalizing the bilateral free-trade agreement with Japan this weekend, but there is some concern that the country’s medical workers will be the losers in the deal.
  • 9-Sep-2006
    Korean FTA negotiator under pressure
    It was 9:00 pm local time on the second day of the third round of Korea-US FTA talks.
  • 9-Sep-2006 Party for Socialism and Liberation
    Seattle protests against US-Korea Free Trade Agreement (PSL)
    Two major coalitions have formed to oppose the KORUS FTA and organize protest activities during the negotiations: the Korean Alliance Against Korea-US FTA (KoA), based in South Korea, and Korean Americans Against War And Neoliberalism (KAWAN), based in the United States.
  • 9-Sep-2006
    Bilateral Trade deal between Philippines and Japan should not be signed in Helsinki!
    Filipino and Japanese groups participating in the Asia Europe People’s Forum in Helsinki expressed their strong opposition to the reported plan of Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi and Philippine President Arroyo to finalize the deal over the contentious Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement on the sidelines of the Asia Europe Meeting in Helsinki next week.
  • 8-Sep-2006
    Fighting FTAs: workshop summary report
    A summary report of the Fighting FTAs international strategy workshop (Bangkok, 27-29 July 2006)
  • 8-Sep-2006
    Goff announces new free trade agreement negotiations
    Foreign Ministers from the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states have agreed to commence negotiations for a free trade agreement with New Zealand, Trade Minister, Phil Goff announced today.
  • 8-Sep-2006
    Free Trade would be launched in January to avoid jeopardizing agro
    The Dominican government will inform United States authorities as to how it prefers to handle export guidelines that are expected to enter the country en masse, should the DR-CAFTA be implemented before year’s end.
  • 8-Sep-2006
    Chile to start free trade talks with Australia
    Chile plans to add Australia, Thailand and Malaysia to a growing list of free -trade partners as it pushes to become Asia’s gateway to Latin America, Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley said on Thursday.
  • 8-Sep-2006
    GMA, Koizumi to ink free trade agreement
    Japan has said it will sign a free-trade pact with the Philippines, ending prolonged negotiations that had stalled largely over how many Filipino nurses could come to work in the world’s second-largest economy.
  • 8-Sep-2006
    Garments industry ’has to wait for gains’
    The garments industry may not see the benefits of the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US until early next year, said an industry leader.
  • 8-Sep-2006
    US says state governments ’exempt’ from FTA rules: source
    The US has reportedly insisted on excluding its state governments from many of the stipulations of the free trade agreement (FTA) currently being negotiated with South Korea.
  • 8-Sep-2006
    Little tangible results come out of S Korea-US FTA talks
    South Korean officials expressed disappointment Thursday at what they believed were low tariff concessions suggested by the US in free trade talks under way in Seattle.
  • 7-Sep-2006
    Big businesses rap US for call on Chaebol control
    The Federation of Korean Industries, Korea’s biggest business lobby group, has raised its voice against the United States’ demand for stricter rules on chaebols or family-run conglomerates in the free trade agreement talks between the two countries.
  • 7-Sep-2006
    China’s free trade team comes to table with no cards
    The latest round of free trade agreement talks in Beijing failed to make its expected start on the crucial issue of market access for goods, because China was unable to provide sufficient information.
  • 7-Sep-2006
    S Korea-US FTA talks open in Seattle amid protests
    Free trade negotiators from South Korea and the United States ended the first day of talks Wednesday, sending mixed signals that they achieved "some progress" but also faced "some challenges."
  • 7-Sep-2006
    Trade-talk foes hit the streets
    Korean workers and farmers take the front line of a demonstration Wednesday against U.S. trade talks with South Korea. The midday march briefly stopped downtown traffic as demonstrators laid down in the streets around Westlake Park.
  • 7-Sep-2006
    FTA negotiations to start with Gulf States
    The Foreign Ministers from the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman - have agreed to begin negotiations for a free trade agreement with New Zealand.
  • 7-Sep-2006
    Lawmakers launch lawsuit against South Korea-U.S. FTA talks
    A group of 23 South Korean lawmakers on Thursday filed a suit with South Korea’s Constitutional Court, claiming that President Roh Moo-hyun’s administration’s move to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with the U.S. is unconstitutional.