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  • 5-Jun-2006 Hankyoreh
    Breaking off FTA discussions always an option
    Korea’s team of negotiators for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States left for Washington on Sunday amid much concern. Depending on how the discussions go, there could be a lot of controversy and even deeper discord between interests.
  • 4-Jun-2006 Yonhap
    Activists protest against proposed FTA with US
    Some 1,300 protesters hit the streets of central Seoul Saturday to oppose a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.
  • 4-Jun-2006 Bahrain Tribune
    No political price for FTA, says UAE
    The UAE is not willing to make any political concessions to secure a free trade agreement with the US, Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum told Asharq Al Awsat newspaper yesterday.
  • 4-Jun-2006 Dominican Today
    Europeans seek integration of the Dominican Republic into the Caribbean
    One of the little understood aspects of the negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe is that it requires the determination of which nations constitute the region.
  • 3-Jun-2006 Prensa Latina
    Peru strikes against US FTA
    Peruvian farmer, union and student organizations announced Friday a strike as of June 8 for an indefinite period against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with United States, to avoid its ratification in the Congress.
  • 3-Jun-2006
    US wants separate FTA talks on farm products
    A US demand for separate negotiations on the agricultural sector under a planned free trade agreement with Korea shows how contentious the issue is, the Korean government said Friday.
  • 3-Jun-2006 Asia Times
    Bumpy road for US-Korea FTA talks
    Negotiations for a US-South Korean free-trade agreement will begin on Monday, with strong political support from both countries’ presidents tempered by skepticism in the legislatures and cautious public support.
  • 3-Jun-2006 IPP Media
    EAC states told to pull out of COMESA, SADC
    East African countries have been implored to pull out their individual membership from the Common Markets for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and South Africa Development Community (SADC) and choose the suitable one to re-join it as an EAC bloc.
  • 3-Jun-2006 GNA
    Ghana is ill prepared for EPA - Study
    Empirical studies conducted on the impact of the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on Ghana has shown that the country is ill prepared and would face detrimental effects if it decides to join now.
  • 3-Jun-2006
    Bilateral free trade and investment agreements and the US corporate biotech agenda
    Bilateral free trade agreements are seen by the agricultural biotechnology industry as an important conduit for spreading genetically modified organisms (GMOs) around the world.
  • 3-Jun-2006 Reuters
    US-Southern Africa free trade pact seen unlikely
    The United States and Southern African nations are unlikely to clinch a free trade agreement but will continue talks at a lower level, South Africa’s trade minister said.
  • 2-Jun-2006 Upside Down World
    Top Ecuador FTA negotiator resigns
    More fall out from the Ecuador-Oxy clash: things went from bad to worse for Ecuador-US Free Trade negotiations when Ecuador’s Minister of Finance, Jorge Illingworth and his successor, Manuel Chiriboga both resigned.
  • 2-Jun-2006 Embassy Magazine
    Agreement comes down to the wire
    The Canadian government is facing demands to disclose a draft free trade agreement with four Central American nations currently in the final stages of deliberation behind closed doors.
  • 2-Jun-2006 Korea Times
    US FTA expected in 3 years
    Despite ups and downs in the negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States, the two countries are likely to reach a final agreement in two to three years, according to a report by the Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI) Wednesday.
  • 2-Jun-2006 donga.com
    Free trade pact: Follow Chile’s lead
    "I felt like I was negotiating with US interest groups, not with the US government," says Alicia Frohmann, one of Chile’s chief negotiators on the US-Chile FTA, to Korean negotiators.
  • 2-Jun-2006
    CRS Report for Congress: The proposed South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUSFTA)
    The launching of the negotiations comes with a high degree of political risk for both South Korea and the United States. It comes as the US-South Korean alliance, while remaining very strong, has showed signs of fraying.
  • 1-Jun-2006 abc Burkina
    Bush sends 6, 000 soldiers to the Mexican border. Where will Europe send its soldiers when the EPAs are signed?
    You may be asking yourself: " what is an EPA? " Well, you are not alone. In fact I have just met with a European Member of Parliament who is no more au courant than you. And that’s worrying!
  • 1-Jun-2006 TWN
    South American Ministers vow to avoid TRIPS-plus measures
    The Ministers of Health of ten South American countries issued a joint declaration on intellectual property committing themselves to avoid "TRIPS plus" provisions in bilateral and regional trade agreements, to facilitate the use of compulsory licensing and parallel importing and to avoid broadening the scope of patentability and the extension of patentable areas.
  • 31-May-2006 The Standard
    Australia given signal of services fight
    Beijing has told Canberra that opening access to China’s services industry will be the most difficult aspect in bilateral free-trade negotiations, according to an Australian official.
  • 30-May-2006 The Star
    Explain benefits of FTA first, govt urged
    Kedah farmers have asked the government to explain the benefits that they could gain from the USA-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) before it proceeds with discussions scheduled to be held on June 12 in Penang.