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21-Nov-2006
ANTARA
Japan will accept nurses, care workers and hotel trainees from Indonesia under a bilateral economic partnership agreement in the final stages of talks, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported.
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21-Nov-2006
Oxfam New Zealand
This paper by Claire Godfrey provides a wide-ranging look at the many problems with the EPAs, and investigates how these could impact on the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries’ future development.
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21-Nov-2006
Oxfam New Zealand
This short summary of issues by Barry Coates of Oaxfam New Zealand focuses on the most recent negotiating documents, particularly the draft “legal text” that was prepared by Pacific negotiators after their meeting in June 2006. It aims to provide a “non-technical” overview to inform civil society of progress in negotiations.
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21-Nov-2006
Oxfam New Zealand
A case study that looks at the impacts from liberalisation of the tourism industry in Vanuatu.
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21-Nov-2006
Oxfam New Zealand
Outlines the legal and moral obligation of the EU to offer the Pacific ACP an attractive alternative to the EPAs.
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21-Nov-2006
Oxfam New Zealand
Provides background information on fisheries in the Pacific and explores the pros and cons of a Pacific fisheries agreement with the EU.
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21-Nov-2006
Yonhap
South Korean activist groups said Tuesday that nationwide mass rallies against a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States are scheduled for late Wednesday.
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21-Nov-2006
Swazi Observer
Swaziland will be forced to open up her market to foreign EU exports as a result of an EPA. This will have a devastating impact on local industries to the extent that they would have to adjust due to competition.
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20-Nov-2006
USTR
USTR fact sheets
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20-Nov-2006
INQ7
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said she wanted the Philippines to forge a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States by July next year. "I told [business leader] Doris Ho... ‘I got President Bush to say yes to the FTA so you write the draft so that we don’t have to go through the years and years of negotiations,’" she said.
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20-Nov-2006
Monsters and Critics
India and China will sign at least half a dozen trade agreements during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s four-day visit to India, but no free trade agreement (FTA) is on the cards, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said Monday.
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19-Nov-2006
Philippine Information Agency
United States President George W. Bush is in favor of continuing the discussions on a possible US-Philippines Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to further enhance trade relations between the two countries, Philippine Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Favila said today.
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18-Nov-2006
Bernama
Malaysia is starting Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with Chile, which will pave the way to turn the latter as the launch pad for the country’s exports to Latin American markets of 550 million people and worth US$298 billion.
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18-Nov-2006
China Daily
China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) has agreed to start feasibility study on the establishment of a free trade area (FTA) at the official level in early 2007.
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18-Nov-2006
FT
Susan Schwab, US trade representative, on the prospects for turning the 21 economies of Apec into a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP); current talks about bilateral trade deals in Asia; the expiration in June next year of trade promotion authority (TPA); and the expected signing of a bilateral trade agreement between the US and Russia.
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18-Nov-2006
BusinessWeek
Chile is considering signing a free trade agreement with Vietnam, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said Friday.
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18-Nov-2006
People’s Daily
Canada and Peru on Tuesday signed a Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement, the first one of its kind that Canada has signed with a foreign country in eight years.
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18-Nov-2006
People’s Daily
Chile and Canada extended their existing free trade agreement on Wednesday, said a statement of the Chilean Foreign Ministry.
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18-Nov-2006
The Mercury News
The American worker, not Corporate America, will be the central focus of US trade policy as far as the new Democratic majority of Congress is concerned.
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17-Nov-2006
The Hindu
India and the European Union will begin negotiations soon for an ambitious and comprehensive bilateral trade and investment agreement though it may take nearly two years for the pact to become a reality.
