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  • 14-Jul-2006 Sydney Morning Herald
    FTA threatens blood supply: study
    The safety of the Australian blood supply could be jeopardised under the free trade agreement with the United States, researchers have warned.
  • 14-Jul-2006 New Zealand Herald
    UN court allows Uruguay pulp mill project
    The United Nations’ highest court has ruled that Uruguay does not have to suspend building two giant pulp mills that neighbouring Argentina says will harm the environment.
  • 14-Jul-2006 Hankyoreh
    US boycotts discussions on medicines in FTA talks with S Korea
    Negotiators from the United States have boycotted discussions on medicines in free trade talks with South Korea, in an apparent protest against Seoul’s new drug-pricing move, Seoul’s chief negotiator to the talks said Thursday.
  • 14-Jul-2006 Korea Times
    Korea, India to hold free trade talks
    Although the free trade agreement with the United States has been receiving the lion’s share of the nation’s attention, South Korea and India will continue free trade talks next week to discuss the timetable and extent of tariff reductions, Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Thursday.
  • 14-Jul-2006 Kyodo
    Japan, Malaysia FTA takes effect
    A free trade agreement between Japan and Malaysia took effect Thursday, enabling the two countries to scrap tariffs on essentially all industrial goods and most agricultural, forestry and fishery products within 10 years.
  • 14-Jul-2006 Hankyoreh
    Agreement scarce, dispute persists in SK-US free trade talks
    South Korea and the US have agreed to establish a standing committee on sanitary standards for agricultural and food products, which will make it easier for the US to ask for expanded trade of genetically modified crops. However, negotiations on pharmaceuticals have hit a snag, with neither side willing to budge.
  • 13-Jul-2006 Bangkok Post
    Thai-US FTA talks left for new Thai govt
    Thailand’s current caretaker government has decided to leave new rounds of the Thai-US FTA talks to the new government after the next general election so that the parliament and the public can fully participate in the talks, according to the Thai foreign minister.
  • 13-Jul-2006 Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)
    EU will start negotiation with China on bilateral trade
    EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is now carrying out a new policy that is ready to start up negotiation on bilateral trade agreement with China and hopes to relax EU and China trade issues through this mechanism.
  • 13-Jul-2006 The Guardian
    The death of Doha signals the demise of globalisation
    The failure to reach agreement on the Doha round suggests the era of multilateral trade agreements is coming to an end.
  • 13-Jul-2006 Easy Bourse
    US House Dems vow to oppose Peru FTA on labor standards
    Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday said they would oppose a free trade agreement between the US and Peru, citing inadequate provisions to protect labor standards.
  • 13-Jul-2006 Chosun Ilbo
    Massive anti-FTA protests paralyze Seoul
    Massive protests against free-trade talks between Korea and the U.S. paralyzed traffic in downtown Seoul on Wednesday.
  • 12-Jul-2006 Reuters
    US House Democrats say Oman labor reform not enough
    US Democrats opposed to a free trade pact with Oman said on Tuesday that new reforms to the Gulf Arab state’s labor laws fall short of what is needed to win their support for the agreement.
  • 12-Jul-2006 FT
    New legal threat over Yukos sale
    The Kremlin will face yet another legal headache on Tuesday over its role in the break-up of Yukos after US attorneys began an arbitration proceeding in Spain on behalf of Spanish investors who were allegedly hurt by the Yukos affair.
  • 12-Jul-2006 Upside Down World
    Bolivia advocates alternative vision for trade and integration
    A cornerstone of Bolivia’s new economy is the People’s Trade Agreement (PTA, or TCP in Spanish), a progressive international trade and integration strategy. Based upon traditional indigenous principles of cooperation, complementarity and solidarity, the PTA is a form of collaboration between nations or communities that reasserts public control over the economy and attempts to recast the role of the corporation from that of "master" to "partner" in a process of sustainable development.
  • 12-Jul-2006 Dow Jones
    USTR to press Congress on Oman, Peru, Vietnam trade deals
    US trade officials will concentrate on getting Congress to approve trade agreements with Oman, Peru and Vietnam in the run-up to mid-term elections this autumn, a US trade official said Tuesday.
  • 12-Jul-2006 ABC News
    Panama upbeat on US free trade deal by year end
    Panama could reach a free trade deal with the United States by the end of this year, despite lingering differences over US food safety, a senior negotiator said on Tuesday.
  • 12-Jul-2006 People’s Daily
    Separate FTAs undermine ASEAN spirit of unity: scholar
    The signing of separate free trade agreements (FTAs) by individual ASEAN members with other countries will undermine the ASEAN’s spirit of solidarity, a Malaysian scholar said on Tuesday.
  • 12-Jul-2006 Korea Herald
    Massive rally planned against FTA
    US "economic colonization," "undemocratic," and a "path toward a miserable future for Korean citizens." These are the basic views held by Korean opponents of the free trade agreement that the Roh Moo-hyun government is pursuing with the United States.
  • 11-Jul-2006 Gulf News
    Oman decree on workers unions strengthens FTA
    A royal decree granting workers in Oman rights to form unions and barring coercive practices by employers will strengthen Oman’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, a top official said.
  • 11-Jul-2006 Japan Times
    FTA negotiations with Chile resume
    Japan and Chile began five days of official talks Monday in Tokyo aimed at concluding a bilateral free-trade agreement by the end of the year.