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  • 25-Aug-2006
    Asean-Australia-NZ FTA may be concluded in 2007
    The Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks could be concluded in 2007, despite some wrangling over issues like government procurements and environment.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Plan B: keep talking
    Having initiated the idea of a free trade agreement with China, the Howard Government has been stung by its implications and has fallen back to a strategy of caution and protracted negotiation that will extend beyond the 2007 national election.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Bush asks congress to approve trade agreement with Colombia
    President George W. Bush asked US congress to approve a free trade agreement with Colombia, saying it would strengthen a democracy in Latin America.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Singapore, China to launch talks for bilateral FTA
    Singapore and China will start negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 25-Aug-2006
    M’sia among top priority countries for US in FTA negotiations
    Malaysia is among the few countries given priority by the United States in its free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations before the expiry of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), said US Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab.
  • 25-Aug-2006
    Australia wants access to Malaysian govt procurement market in trade deal
    Australia wants access to Malaysia’s government procurement market, which currently favors the country’s majority ethnic Malays, enshrined in a free trade deal, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said.
  • 25-Aug-2006 FAS
    Trade agreements work for America
    Gains to US trade from FTAs, as of July 2006.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    AMCHAM M’sia denies patent provisions in US FTAs
    The American-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM Malaysia) Thursday refuted press reports that the US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in Chile and Singapore seeks to extend patents for 30 to 40 years through TRIPS-Plus.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Rules of origin regulations no hinderance, says NZ’s Goff
    Asean’s plan to narrow the gap on rules of origin regulations pose no hinderance to the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with New Zealand and Australia.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    India to review sensitive list, says Nath
    Despite the tense negotiations behind doors, India said it will now study Asean’s sensitive list comprising 1,900 goods before pursuing its free trade negotiations with the 10-member grouping.
  • 24-Aug-2006 Choike
    US-Uruguay free trade agreement
    Two articles by Roberto Bissio, analysing the irreparable mistakes that Uruguay could be making in case of signing an FTA with the United States with regards to the imposition of intellectual property regulations and the opening of state services to competition.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Deng pushes for US FTA talks next year
    An official expressed the hope on Tuesday that Taiwan and the US could start negotiations on the signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) next spring.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    ASEAN, India agree to resume FTA talks
    ASEAN today requested that India make further tariff concessions in its list of goods and services offered under a beleaguered Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as the two sides agreed to resume FTA talks suspended by the 10-member grouping because of alleged lack of progress.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Korea seeks to keep 288 farm products out of FTA
    Korea has asked the US for “exceptional treatment” of 288 agricultural products or 20 percent of 1,452 agricultural items in their planned free trade agreement, a high-ranking government official said Wednesday.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Korea, Thailand- rice issue not resolved
    Thailand and South Korea failed Thursday to reach an agreement in negotiations into the issue of rice trade between the two nations, impeding the implementation of a regional trade pact between Southeast Asia and Seoul.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    SADC investment protocol welcomed
    The association of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chambers of Commerce and Industry cautiously welcome the signing of the finance and investment protocol by leaders of the 14-member regional trading bloc in Lesotho’s capital Maseru last week Friday.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Ghana solicits Integration in ECOWAS
    Countries within the African region have been implored not to allow nations standards to continue to present technical barriers to the free flow of goods both within and beyond the borders of he Economic Community of West African States.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    EU begins to soften its position on EPA negotiations
    In what could be described as a softening of its position on the Economic Partnership Agreements negotiations between EU and ECOWAS, the EU’s Ghana office says it is hopeful that the concerns of ECOWAS would be addressed “before” the implementation of the EPAs begin.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Chile formally requests incorporation to CAN
    Chile formally requested incorporation to the Andean Community of Nations, CAN, in a letter sent by President Michelle Bachelet to her counterparts from Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, reported Foreign Affairs minister Alejandro Foxley.
  • 24-Aug-2006
    Mercosur official says "FTAA is dead"
    A top Argentine trade official was quoted in Bs. Aires Tuesday as saying the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA, a hemispheric commerce initiative pushed by the Bush administration, "is dead."