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  • 10-Apr-2006 Reuters
    Japan-China trade agreement opposed
    Japan’s farm minister expressed scepticism toward the idea of a free trade pact with China, while its foreign minister said on Friday the two economic giants should avoid jockeying for power in the region.
  • 10-Apr-2006 Chosunilbo
    Korean FTA negotiators primed on US bugging tricks
    Beware of the dragonfly: it may be a bugging robot disguised as a harmless insect. No, the advice does not come from a mental patient convinced the government is spying on his laundry bills: it was one of the security tips issued during last week’s two-day workshop for 120 Korean delegates in the nation’s impending free-trade negotiations with the US.
  • 10-Apr-2006 Daily Independent
    Coalition proposes alternative to EU, ACP trade agreement
    A coalition of non-governmental organisations, opposed to the ongoing negotiation between European Union and African, Caribean and Pacific countries, under the Economic Partnership Agreement, has soften its stance on the discussion.
  • 10-Apr-2006 Business Standard
    Trade agreements come under Sonia scanner
    Concerns raised by a section of domestic industry against indiscriminate opening up of the Indian market to imports have touched a chord at the highest levels of the policy establishment.
  • 9-Apr-2006
    Pressure builds to seal trade deals
    New Zealand could be sidelined from trading with some of the world’s fastest-growing economies if it fails to push ahead with a network of Asian free trade deals, Associate Minister for Trade Negotiations Jim Sutton says.
  • 8-Apr-2006 Reuters
    Democrats urge labor clause in Peru FTA
    The Bush administration should include a provision in a proposed free-trade pact with Peru that the South American country meet international labor standards, a group of congressional Democrats said on Friday.
  • 8-Apr-2006 AP
    Colombia, Cuba agree to discuss trade talks
    Colombia and Cuba may seem strange bedfellows but the stalwart US ally and its oldest adversary in Latin America are putting aside their differences to negotiate a trade deal.
  • 8-Apr-2006 AP
    Caricom to talk possible deal with US
    Caribbean foreign ministers will discuss a possible free trade agreement with the US when they meet next week with the US trade representative.
  • 8-Apr-2006 Bangkok Post
    New TRT government to proceed with FTA talks
    Thailand’s new Thai Rak Thai government will proceed with the negotiations of free trade agreements.
  • 8-Apr-2006 Prensa Latina
    First death in Ecuador FTA riots
    The violent police repression against Ecuadorian demonstrators protesting the free trade agreement with the US has claimed its first life, university students denounced Friday.
  • 8-Apr-2006 TMCnet
    Panel pushes 16-nation FTA in Asia, mulls boosting foreign workers
    A government policy-setting panel on Friday welcomed a proposal by the trade minister to launch negotiations between Japan and its 15 Asian neighbors to create a free trade zone, and discussed whether to accept more foreign workers amid the aging of society, economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano said.
  • 7-Apr-2006
    Filipino and Japanese workers to lose out in JPEPA
    Both Filipino and Japanese workers will lose out under the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) according to a report by Mr. Takemasa Ando, a researcher from Waseda University in Tokyo.
  • 7-Apr-2006 USTR
    USTR 2006 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
    USTR has recently released its latest annual country-by-country assessment of barriers to US trade around the world, Washington’s basis for unilateral trade sanctions.
  • 7-Apr-2006 USTR
    US-Uruguay BIT (2005)
  • 7-Apr-2006 AFP
    US in relentless bid to forge FTA with Southeast Asia
    More than three years after President George W Bush unveiled an initiative to forge free-trade agreements with Southeast Asian nations, a deal aimed at prising open the 500-million-strong regional market remains elusive.
  • 7-Apr-2006 MENAFN
    UAE FTA with USA: Impact will be on services sector
    A new study by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry analyses the impact of the UAE’s FTA with the US.
  • 7-Apr-2006 Financial Times
    ADB attacks bilateral trade deals
    “A lot of these bilateral deals have nothing to do with economics. Instead, they [Asian Development Bank’s members] are mostly doing it for diplomatic reasons, including efforts to gain access to natural resources.”
  • 6-Apr-2006 Xinhua
    Venezuela accuses US of undermining unity of Andean Community
    Venezuela has accused the United States of attempting to undermine the unity of the five-nation Andean Community in the way of free trade deals.
  • 6-Apr-2006 UPI
    House debate Oman labor rights in US FTA
    Amidst rising anti-trade sentiment in Congress, House Republicans and Democrats wrangled over labor rights issues Wednesday demanding that a US free trade deal with the Omani government include stronger provisions to protect workers rights.
  • 6-Apr-2006 The Nation
    Reasons to worry about bilateral trade pacts
    An examination of the globalised approach by both EU countries and the US to bilateral FTAs shows that acceleration has occurred as the WTO has lost its effect. While it is easy to rationalise that the global north is acting independently because the WTO is failing, it is more fun to speculate that the global north is acting to stall the WTO since they get much better terms on a one-to-one basis in their agreements with developing countries.