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13-Jul-2006
Chosun Ilbo
Massive protests against free-trade talks between Korea and the U.S. paralyzed traffic in downtown Seoul on Wednesday.
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12-Jul-2006
Reuters
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.
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12-Jul-2006
FT
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.
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12-Jul-2006
Upside Down World
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.
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12-Jul-2006
Dow Jones
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.
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12-Jul-2006
ABC News
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.
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12-Jul-2006
People’s Daily
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.
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12-Jul-2006
Korea Herald
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.
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11-Jul-2006
Gulf News
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.
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11-Jul-2006
Japan Times
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.
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11-Jul-2006
CathNews
In a message for the Church’s Farmers’ Sunday this week, Korean bishops and farmers have warned against the destruction of the local farming sector as a result of a Free Trade Agreement with the US.
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11-Jul-2006
The Nation
Caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is considering whether to sign the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement in September as requested by Tokyo, a member of the Thai negotiating team said.
Meanwhile, a Commerce Ministry official said that overall there are few advantages for Thailand in the agreement.
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11-Jul-2006
East African
Tanzania is lagging behind in preparing to sign a deal that will determine how it trades with Europe for a long time to come.
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11-Jul-2006
Korea Times
The Korea Employers Federation Monday called for an end to “illegal” strikes aimed at thwarting the establishment of a free trade agreement between Korea and the United States.
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11-Jul-2006
Asia Pulse
About 100 anti-globalization activists, some from the US, clashed briefly with police in Seoul Monday, as they protested against talks aimed at concluding a free trade agreement between South Korea and the US.
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11-Jul-2006
Dow Jones
China and Iceland plan to begin formal negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement soon following successful talks earlier this month.
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11-Jul-2006
EFTA Secretariat
The Member States of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA, comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU, comprising Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) signed a free trade agreement on 1 July 2006.
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10-Jul-2006
Apex chamber Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is working on a set of industry recommendations to come up with guidelines for signing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The WTO and other Trade Agreements Committee of the chamber is finalising the recommendations which will be submitted to the government within a month.
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10-Jul-2006
Voices against the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) are increasingly being raised ahead of the second round of FTA negotiations, due to be held in Seoul on July 10. The voices of protest are not getting louder because Seoul is the venue of the negotiations.
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10-Jul-2006
As Korea resumed its talks with the United States over a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) yesterday, anti-globalization activists also made their presence felt, organizing scattered demonstrations in Seoul calling for the government to withdraw from the negotiations.
