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10-Jul-2006
The government could give up trying to persuade the U to recognize products from the inter-Korea Kaesong Industrial Complex as made in South Korea in free trade negotiations. “It has become impossible to win Washington’s consent about the Kaesong issue because of North Korea’s sudden missile launches,” an official here said.
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10-Jul-2006
Colombia’s government said on Friday it expected to sign a free trade agreement with the United States in early October after ironing out difficulties over agricultural goods in the text of the deal.
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10-Jul-2006
President of the US-Asean Business Council Matt Daley is to propose a continuation of bilateral trade talks between Thailand and the United States, despite the Kingdom’s political deadlock, when he meets caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripi-tak in Washington today.
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7-Jul-2006
EFTA Secretariat
An overview report on EFTA’s free trade agreements with non-EU countries.
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6-Jul-2006
Karl Falkenberg, Deputy Director-General of Trade at the European Commission, says its is not worth having an Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and ECOWAS if the Agreement did not enshrine Free Trade Agreement-style full reciprocity between the parties and liberalised rules for Investment.
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6-Jul-2006
Shri Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, has said that imports under the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) should not adversely affect the domestic industry. Rather, such an engagement should be a win-win situation bringing economic benefits to both sides. The Minister said this in the context of vanaspati imports under the Indo-Sri Lanka FTA, when the issue was raised by Mr. Jayaraj Fernandopulle, Minister for Trade, Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Highways, who called on him here last evening.
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6-Jul-2006
Given the constitutional right to freedom of expression, there is nothing wrong with critics voicing opposition to a free trade agreement being negotiated with the United States. Actually, many of them get their anti-FTA message across by contributing articles to news media, appearing on public forums or exploiting other legitimate channels to their advantage.
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6-Jul-2006
The Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, informed that it intends to seek a free trade deal with the United States, after Central American countries and the Dominican Republic sign the latter.
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6-Jul-2006
A special luncheon was held in downtown Seoul on July 4, 2006 to explain the advantages and disadvantages of a Korea-EU FTA. The European Union Chamber of Commerce Korea hosted the event.
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6-Jul-2006
The commissioner general of Korea’s National Police Agency said police will sternly counteract possible violent demonstrations against the Korea-US FTA negotiations in Seoul next week.
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6-Jul-2006
More Korean automobiles and more Korean auto parts will roll into the United States if South Korea and the US reach a free trade agreement, government officials and auto industry sources said Thursday.
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6-Jul-2006
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for the speeding up of ongoing negotiations on the proposed Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) so that it can be signed this year, a spokesman said.
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6-Jul-2006
More than half of all South Koreans have a negative view of their government’s free trade talks with the United States, according to a poll released Thursday.
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5-Jul-2006
Being that Guatemala has just recently implemented the Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), only Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic remain as the two signatories that still are not enforcing the agreement.
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5-Jul-2006
Sri Lanka has proposed a free trade agreement (FTA) or preferential trade pact with Malaysia, but the two countries are a long way towards reaching a final decision, a Sri Lankan corporate leader said.
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5-Jul-2006
Canada has no plan to hold talks on free trade agreement (FTA) with Malaysia for the time being due to lack of time, says its high commission’s counsellor and senior trade commissioner, Rene-Francois Desamore.
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5-Jul-2006
US-Bahrain relations will enter a new era when the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) comes into force in the coming weeks, said US Ambassador William T Monroe yesterday.
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4-Jul-2006
China will recognize products from the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North as made in South Korea, a high-ranking government official in Seoul said Monday.
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4-Jul-2006
The People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy and the Lawyers for a Democratic Society, two of South Korea’s most influential civic groups, urged the government to publicize the content and proceedings of its ongoing talks with the United States for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA).
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4-Jul-2006
Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has endorsed a proposal for regional states to pursue more bilateral arrangements with the United States.
