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  • 17-Feb-2007 The Nation
    NGOs fear there’s a hidden agenda in Japan FTA
    Khao-Kwan Foundation chairman Day-cha Siripatra said the country would lose several hundred billion baht a year if the government allowed Japan to patent micro-organisms.
  • 17-Feb-2007 Zee News
    Visa rules for professionals to ease after India-EU FTA
    Freer movement of Indian professionals in 25 European Union member countries is likely to be a reality in the near future, as this will be a key point of negotiations in the proposed free trade agreement with EU.
  • 17-Feb-2007 KoA
    KoA No FTA newsletter #3
    For the Korean Alliance Against Korea-U.S. FTA, February and March will become a crucial month for mass mobilization both domestically and internationally.
  • 16-Feb-2007 GDAE
    Policy space for Mexican maize: Protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
    With maize trade scheduled to be fully liberalized under NAFTA in 2008, many farm groups are calling for a renegotiation of the treaty’s agricultural provisions to prevent further damage. This analysis examines the room for alternative policies in Mexico under existing economic and environmental agreements, including NAFTA. It concludes that the Mexican government retains access to many useful policy instruments that could promote rural livelihoods while arresting the losses of important maize diversity. What is lacking is the political will to make use of them.
  • 16-Feb-2007 DG Trade
    The EU welcomes South Africa in the SADC EPA negotiation
    The EU Council of Ministers has decided to include South Africa in the SADC EPA negotiation.
  • 16-Feb-2007 Mining MX
    South Africa: Govt faces first expropriation suit
    A foreign mining company is suing the South African government over alleged expropriation of its mineral rights in a move that has huge implications for the country’s new mining dispensation.
  • 16-Feb-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Namibia: Beef deadline looms
    The deadline is looming for the day when the preferential treatment that Namibia has enjoyed for its beef, lamb and table grape exports to the European Union ends on January 1 2008.
  • 16-Feb-2007 MCOT
    Legislators face tough choice over Thai-Japan FTA
    Despite the Thai government’s intense effort to press ahead with the draft free trade agreement with Japan, appointed members of the National Legislative Assembly remain divided as to its pros and cons.
  • 16-Feb-2007 Reuters
    Peru, China to view viability of free trade deal
    Peru and China on Thursday took a first official step toward a free trade agreement that would unite one of giant Latin American metals producer and the world’s most voracious consumer.
  • 15-Feb-2007 Business Times
    US, Emirates seen getting closer to free trade pact
    Major sticking points still obstruct a deal, including Washington’s insistence on improvement of labourers’ rights and the country’s overall human rights record.
  • 15-Feb-2007
    Statement of concern regarding the proposed EU-ASEAN free trade negotiations
    Civil society movements and organisations from ASEAN and Europe express strong concerns about the proposed EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) slated to be concluded within the next two years.
  • 15-Feb-2007 Hankyoreh
    SK-US free trade deal may open 10 out of 18 types of rice products
    Contrary to its long-standing assertion that rice will be excluded from a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, South Korea’s government is reviewing measures to open some less sensitive rice products.
  • 15-Feb-2007 Dow Jones News
    No major breakthrough in US-S Korea free trade talks
    US-South Korea free trade talks netted some progress this week, but at least one more session will be needed to reach a final deal, the lead US negotiator said.
  • 15-Feb-2007 Kyodo
    US envoy says solving farm issues is key to possible FTA with Japan
    US Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer sounded a positive note Wednesday over a possible free trade agreement between the world’s two major economies and indicated that resolving farm issues would be the key.
  • 15-Feb-2007 KoA
    KoA No FTA Newsletter #2
    Farmers release animals in protest, 500 attend all-night vigil; KoA protest delegation holds all-night vigil, congressional briefing in DC; Limiting access to healthcare: FTA and pharmaceuticals
  • 15-Feb-2007 Hindustan Times
    India, Japan can rule Asian economy post-CEPA: Envoy
    Japan is confident that a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement currently being negotiated with India would help the two countries dominate Asia’s economic output in the future.
  • 15-Feb-2007 Times of India
    EU wants India to lower duties through FTA
    Trade liberalisation for rubber, tea, coffee and edible oil could be minor political concerns in the proposed free trade pact with Asean compared to what the European Union is looking for in its bilateral agreement with India.
  • 15-Feb-2007 The Guardian
    Cheney urges firms to lobby free trade
    Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday urged the nation’s manufacturers to lobby Congress in what he said would be a difficult battle to extend President Bush’s special trade authority.
  • 15-Feb-2007 Herald Sun
    APEC moves towards free trade mining
    Asia Pacific mining ministers wound up a talkfest in Perth today vowing to explore a free trade agreement between Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) members that would dwarf all other FTAs.
  • 15-Feb-2007 New Straits Times
    Questions over FTA with the US
    Will the bilateral free trade agreement between Malaysia and the US be signed?