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  • 19-Apr-2006 SABC News
    US, SA union fail to reach consensus on free trade
    The US government and the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) have failed to reach consensus regarding the establishment of a free trade agreement. Unrealistic demands by the US government are said to be at the centre of the failed talks.
  • 19-Apr-2006 newswire.co.nz
    Gulf states next FTA goal
    New Zealand is to forge ahead with trying to secure a free trade deal with Gulf states.
  • 19-Apr-2006 New Straits Times
    What people want is fair trade, not free trade
    If the argument that the US FTA stands to benefit Malaysia as a whole is sound, then this, we hope, can be proven by an open discussion of what the agreement will really mean to individual Malaysians, and not just corporate interests.
  • 19-Apr-2006 Public Agenda
    Fair trade campaigners push for the scrapping of EPAs
    Thirty civil society groups across Africa and Europe have called for an end to negotiations aimed at implementing an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
  • 19-Apr-2006 MarketWatch
    Ecuador to formally request date to resume US FTA talks
    The Ecuadorean government plans to send a formal request this week to the U.S. government to resume free trade talks between the two nations, the country’s top trade negotiator said Tuesday.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    Trade minister vows to defend ’Maginot Line’ in FTA
    Korea will need to end negotiations for a free trade agreement with the U.S. as it did with Japan if it cannot defend its “Maginot Line” — protection for sensitive agricultural and service sectors — Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong said Monday.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    Dhaka-Ankara bilateral ties
    The Prime Minister of Turkey not only hosted the Bangladesh leader but also highlighted the need for augmenting bilateral relations in different fields, including trade and investment.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    South Asia eyes free trade zone by 2016
    South Asian nations want to ease tariffs gradually with the aim of establishing a free trade zone in about a decade, experts at a trade meeting said on Tuesday.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    ’Seoul shouldn’t hurry FTA talks’
    When Korea and the United States enter formal negotiations for a free trade agreement in June, both countries are expected to begin a fight against time to meet a March 2007 target to conclude the talks.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    Seoul rules out win-lose FTA with United States
    South Korea will not rush through its free trade agreement (FTA) deal with the United States so as to make the bilateral pact a win-lose deal for Korea rather than a win-win treaty.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    US Trade Commission examines FTA impact
    The US International Trade Commission (ITC) will hold a public hearing Thursday on a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, industry officials said Sunday.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    US pushes to limit generic drug rights
    Under global trading rules, the inventors of medicines ordinarily enjoy the right to a 20-year monopoly on their inventions. But five years ago, the United States joined 141 other countries to sign the Doha Declaration, confirming the right of poor countries to break drug patents and produce cheap generic drugs in the event of contagions like HIV.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    US FTAs could hit Pak gains in exports: ADB
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has cautioned that free trade agreements between the US and many of Pakistan’s competitors in clothing exports as well as the trade diversion effect of the May 2005 inclusion of 10 East European countries in the EU (itself one of the top three T&C exporters), could affect the country’s potential gains in exports.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    A US-Caricom free trade agreement?
    US Trade Representative, Robert Portman, met Trade Ministers of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries on 12 April giving rise to speculation that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Caricom countries might be in the offing.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    UAE-US free trade to be signed before year-end
    The US free trade agreement with the UAE might take unspecified time to sign, but the US hopes to ink the deal before the end of this year, although nothing is clear as yet, according to a senior official from the US Embassy in Dubai.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    Ecuador may clinch FTA
    The Ecuadorian government insisted Tuesday on having the last Free Trade Agreement (FTA) round of negotiations with the US and is readying a formal request from Washington.
  • 18-Apr-2006
    Industry FTA team launched
    Representatives from a variety of industries have formed a private board to closely monitor the government’s negotiations with the United States for a free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 18-Apr-2006 Financial Express
    Indo-Nepal trade treaty to be recast
    The Indian government plans to broadbase the scope of the bilateral Indo-Nepal treaty for trade to make it less import-centric and more comprehensive and mutually beneficial.
  • 18-Apr-2006 Jakarta Post
    Indonesia, Japan resume free trade negotiations
    Indonesia and Japan began their fourth round of official negotiations for a bilateral trade and economic cooperation agreement Monday, and hope to reach a basic accord by the end of the year at the latest.
  • 18-Apr-2006 Prensa Latina
    Peru: Date for FTA debate to be set
    The draft free trade agreement with the US still lacks a date for discussion in the Peruvian Congress Constitution Committee as the text has not yet been submitted, Parliament Speaker Antero Flores said Monday.