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  • 13-Jan-2007 Zee News
    India seeks Portugal support in India-EU free trade agreement
    India said with Portugal taking presidency of the European Union by July, the strong ties between the two countries would help expedite the proposed free trade agreement between India and the EU.
  • 13-Jan-2007 AEI
    Europe (re)joins the FTA bandwagon
    A view on the similarities and differences between the US and the EU’s FTA strategies.
  • 13-Jan-2007 EurActiv
    MEPs press for a Transatlantic Market by 2015
    Influential MEP group urges greater economic and regulatory cooperation between the EU and the US by removing transatlantic barriers to trade and investment.
  • 12-Jan-2007 Hankyoreh
    Prospects for Seoul-Washington FTA look shaky: officials
    Apparently upset by the US refusal to address its key demand for easing anti-dumping rules, South Korea said Friday it will refuse formal discussion of automobile and other issues of US concern at the upcoming free trade talks between the two countries.
  • 12-Jan-2007 AP
    US negotiator says more talks needed to reach FTA with Malaysia
    The US and Malaysia need at least two more rounds of negotiations to overcome obstacles and reach a free trade agreement, a top American trade negotiator said Friday.
  • 12-Jan-2007 Yonhap
    S Korea won’t include rice in FTA with US: minister
    South Korea’s agriculture minister confirmed Friday that his government will not open its rice market under a proposed free trade agreement with the United States.
  • 12-Jan-2007 Ministry of Commerce of the PRC
    China-Pakistan FTA (2006)
  • 12-Jan-2007
    Australia-China Trade and Economic Framework (2003)
    Framework agreement establishing basis to study feasibility of a bilateral FTA
  • 12-Jan-2007 Gulf Daily News
    Trade pact with Pakistan on way
    Bahrain and Pakistan have vowed to step up negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which could be signed before the end of the year.
  • 12-Jan-2007 The Australian
    APEC ’too busy’ for free trade deal, says Canberra
    Australia has dismissed plans for an APEC free trade agreement, arguing that member countries are too busy cementing other trade deals to give it serious attention.
  • 12-Jan-2007 SEEurope
    Turkey to initiate free trade accords with Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro
    The Foreign Trade Undersecretariat will initiate free trade agreement (FTA) talks with four countries in the first half of 2007: Georgia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia.
  • 12-Jan-2007 bangkit.net
    FTA kills! Stop negotiations with USA now!
    It was an uncommon sight at the Bangunan Rawatan Utama, Universiti Malaya Medical Centre this morning, when 30-over anti US-Malaysia FTA coalition members suddenly gathered holding banners and placards at the outpatient unit lobby.
  • 11-Jan-2007 Sun2Surf
    US FTA: Will we lose out, too?
    Other countries’ experiences and international research have proven that signing a US FTA could be a raw deal for Malaysia.
  • 11-Jan-2007 Bloomberg
    Chavez move piles on legal, insurance risks for US companies
    Unlike Paris-based Total SA or London-based BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp. and other US companies aren’t protected by any bilateral investment treaty with Venezuela.
  • 11-Jan-2007 Sharewatch
    Malaysian rice farmers, activists, demand halt to free trade talks with US
    The United States and Malaysia this week started a fourth round of talks for a free trade agreement (FTA), which Washington wants to complete before President George W Bush’s trade-negotiating authority expires in June. The Coalition Against the US-Malaysia FTA delivered a memorandum to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi calling on him to intervene, and urged transparency on the details and implications of the deal.
  • 11-Jan-2007 L’Express
    Triangular cooperation Mauritius-India-Africa: The Mauritian perspective
    The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) was yet again the focal point of discussions between Mauritian International Trade Minister Madun Dulloo and his Indian counterpart Kamal Nath last week in Delhi. CECPA, whilst being a powerful bilateral instrument to enhance trade and economic ties between our two countries, is also an inventive collaborative effort which will ultimately make of Mauritius the ideal step-stone on the India to Africa economic route.
  • 11-Jan-2007 Third World Network Africa
    Forward with the struggle to stop the EPAs
    From 11-14 December 2006, the 9th Annual Review Meeting of the Africa Trade Network took place in Accra, Ghana. This is the final declaration that came out of the meeting.
  • 11-Jan-2007 Channel News Asia
    Singapore and Morocco agree to start FTA talks
    Singapore and Morocco have agreed to start talks on a Free Trade Agreement, but only at a pace that Morocco is comfortable with.
  • 11-Jan-2007 Daily Times
    UN body invites Pak to join Asia Pacific trade group
    The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) of the United Nations has invited Pakistan to join the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) suggesting that this would help its membership to other important trading blocks such as ASEAN, AFTA, BIMSTEC and SCO.
  • 11-Jan-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Comesa trade tops $7.8 billion as FTA membership reaches 13
    Business among Comesa countries has doubled in the past two years, and currently stands at more than $7.8 billion. And the number of countries that have joined the club’s Free Trade Area (FTA) has grown to 13, with others waiting on the sidelines.