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  • 26-Jul-2006
    Regional trade pacts rise to the fore
    Two weeks ago, members of the World Trade Organization agreed on rules that would make it easier to track bilateral and regional trade deals. Negotiators were concerned that the proliferation of such deals would detract from efforts, already faltering, to reach a global trade pact.
  • 26-Jul-2006
    Will US Change Laws for FTA With Korea?
    South Korea has three major demands in its free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the United States since June when the first round of bilateral meeting began.
  • 26-Jul-2006
    Asean suspends FTA talks with India
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has suspended free-trade talks with India because of New Delhi’s reluctance to open its markets, Malaysia’s trade and industry minister said on Tuesday.
  • 26-Jul-2006 The Hankyoreh
    A Korea-U.S. trade agreement: what is at stake?
    This examines macro-economic issues, intellectual property and patent protections, the potential impact on pharmaceuticals, and other issues at stake in the US-Korea FTA.
  • 26-Jul-2006 BBC News
    The death of the WTO’s Doha talks
    You don’t have to declare multilateralism dead, just because this round of talks is over, but there are three particular, potential consequences of the collapse in the talks.
  • 26-Jul-2006 Reuters
    India considering trade pacts with EU, Japan
    India is considering economic cooperation agreements with the European Union and Japan to boost trade, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday, a day after global free trade talks collapsed.
  • 26-Jul-2006 AFP
    Taiwan presses for US trade pact
    Taiwan urged the United States to move quickly to forge a free-trade agreement (FTA) with America’s eighth biggest trading partner, despite bitter objections from China.
  • 25-Jul-2006 Business Day
    Zimbabwe farmers claim for land grab
    A group of 11 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers of Dutch origin are poised to take their case for compensation in respect of confiscated land to an international tribunal.
  • 25-Jul-2006
    Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) concerns in agricultural trade
    Many US Congress Members are interested in how FTAs might address SPS matters. These Members are concerned that as trade agreements lower agricultural tariffs, more countries may turn to SPS measures to protect their farmers from import competition.
  • 24-Jul-2006 The Independent
    EU trawlers get fishing rights off Africa for £350m
    The EU has signed its biggest-ever fisheries deal with an African nation, sparking a debate on the deal and the other 13 bilateral fisheries agreements in force.
  • 24-Jul-2006 AFP
    Burgeoning trade ties no guarantee of Asian peace: analysts
    Burgeoning economic links through a web of free trade agreements (FTAs), financial cooperation and investments may reduce the risk of war in Asia but are no guarantee of peace, analysts say.
  • 23-Jul-2006
    U.S. FTA will batter banking sector: study
    The much-touted benefits of a free trade agreement with the United States will be confined to commercial enterprises, while other sectors of the Korean economy, particularly the banking industry, will take a battering, a think thank warned yesterday.
  • 23-Jul-2006 People’s Daily
    Mexico bid to join Mercosur as associate member
    Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said on Friday that his government had formally requested the accession to the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) as an associate member.
  • 23-Jul-2006 Miami Herald
    Lobbyists push for deal with Peru, but vote remains elusive
    The business community is off and running in its attempt to push the latest Latin American free-trade agreement through Congress.
  • 23-Jul-2006 The Star
    Swiss minister promises a favour
    Switzerland’s Economics Minister, Joseph Deiss, led a business delegation comprised of senior officials from Novartis, Credit Suisse, SACC and Economy Swiss, to Malaysia.
  • 23-Jul-2006 Channel News Asia
    US hails progress in latest Malaysia trade talks
    The US government said Friday it had achieved "solid progress" in a second round of free-trade talks with Malaysia this week.
  • 23-Jul-2006 AllAfrica.com
    East Africa: Comesa’s transformation into customs union to benefit exporters
    The transformation of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Free Trade Area (FTA) into a Customs Union in the next two years will open up bigger markets for exporters, an industrialist has said.
  • 23-Jul-2006
    Japan-Korea BIT (2002)
  • 23-Jul-2006
    Japan-Bangladesh BIT (1999)
  • 23-Jul-2006
    Japan-Hong Kong BIT (1997)