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  • 7-Jun-2006
    Government to have an extra RD$2.35B income if Free Trade is delayed
    The possible postponement of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Central America (DR-CAFTA) would secure for the central government additional income of, at least, RD$2,350 million during the second half of this year.
  • 7-Jun-2006
    Washington’s tactical shift on global trade
    Seoul and Washington have just launched free trade talks. The negotiations will be complex, acerbic and angry — and will finally bury the Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks.
  • 7-Jun-2006
    Pakistan, US to soon sign BIT: Jahangir Karamat
    Former Pakistan ambassador to US, Gen (Retd) Jehangir Karamat has hoped Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) will soon be signed between Pakistan and US.
  • 7-Jun-2006
    All local Vanaspati factories shut down after India tightens imports
    All Sri Lankan factories producing Vanaspati oil have shut down, after controversial Indian regulations to restrict duty free exports of the vegetable oil to India.
  • 7-Jun-2006
    Korea, US fail to agree on Kaesong-made goods
    The first round of free-trade negotiations between Korea and the US failed to produce agreement on products made at the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea.
  • 7-Jun-2006 Change to Win
    US and Korean labor say ’NO’ to NAFTA repeat
    Leaders of the four main labor federations in the United States and Korea — Change to Win, AFL-CIO, KCTU and FKTU — today joined forces to tell their governments to slow down negotiations of a US-Korea Free Trade agreement (KORUS FTA).
  • 7-Jun-2006 CanWest
    NAFTA hasn’t delivered: legislators
    The North American Free Trade Agreement is "a continental tragedy" according to parliamentarians from Canada, Mexico and the United States who are fighting to replace it with a "people-centred approach."
  • 7-Jun-2006 AP
    New Peruvian president-elect keeping Washington at arm’s length
    President-elect Alan Garcia on Tuesday stressed his support for free markets and said he will vigorously court foreign investment for Peru, but he said he plans to renegotiate a trade accord with the United States signed by the outgoing government.
  • 7-Jun-2006 Bangkok Post
    FTA could be met with court action
    Thai citizens could file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court if the caretaker government signs a free trade agreement with Japan, said Somchai Preechasinlapakun, dean of law at Chiang Mai University.
  • 7-Jun-2006 Gulf Times
    Pak-Asean talks for FTA agreed
    Pakistan and Association of the South East Asian Nations (Asean) yesteray agreed to begin talks for signing a free trade agreement (FTA), officials said.
  • 7-Jun-2006 IIE
    Negotiating the Korea-United States free trade agreement
    Policy brief from the US-based Insitute for International Economics.
  • 7-Jun-2006 Korea Times
    Truths & myths about proposed Korea-US FTA
    Here are some of points that need to be cleared up about the US-Korea FTA according to The Korea Times
  • 6-Jun-2006 IPS
    Bigger than NAFTA, just as controversial
    The United States and South Korea kick-started the first round of talks in Washington Monday toward a bilateral free trade agreement amid cheers from business groups and denunciations from labour groups and farmers from both nations.
  • 6-Jun-2006 Indymedia DC
    Koreans protest "free" trade agreement talks
    Koreans descended on Washington this weekend to oppose a proposed US-South Korea "free" trade deal. Listen to the audio report from WSQT Radio.
  • 6-Jun-2006 Hankyoreh
    Ministry fears effects of FTA on healthcare system
    South Korean consumers will pay more for pharmaceuticals if US demands on a free trade agreement between the two countries are met, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
  • 6-Jun-2006 GNA
    Economic Partnership Agreement would collapse Ghana’s feeble economy
    Nana Akomea, Chairman of Ghana’s Parliamentary Select Committee on Trade, called for regional integration between ECOWAS countries as the way forward to economic development. An Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and ECOWAS, as provided for in the Cotonou Agreement, would only cripple Ghana’s feeble agricultural sector and other local industries.
  • 6-Jun-2006 ITP.net
    Egypt ups trade ante
    The World Economic Forum on the Middle East concluded in Egypt last month with the drawing up of a list of objectives aimed at driving the growth of the regional economy. In the wake of these talks one thing is clear; business in many sectors is booming and Egypt’s manufacturing industry is reaping the rewards of the Arab Free Trade Agreement (AFTA).
  • 6-Jun-2006 AP
    Colombia kicks off free trade talks with 3 Central American countries
    Colombia, fresh from reaching a free trade agreement with the United States, is now trying to eliminate trade barriers with Central America.
  • 5-Jun-2006 MCOT
    Government urged to defer FTA deals with US and Japan
    Thailand’s caretaker government has been urged to defer its conclusion of bilateral free trade area (FTA) agreements with the United States and Japan until a newly-elected administration takes office.
  • 5-Jun-2006 Hankyoreh
    FTA faces fierce pressure US Congress
    US Congress has strengthened pressure on negotiators to take a hard-line stance in the South Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA) talks.