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  • 21-Jun-2006 TVNZ
    Is the Pacific ready for trade talks?
    Pacific Trade Ministers begin annual talks in Fiji on Wednesday, amid claims New Zealand is pressuring Pacific Forum countries into starting free trade negotiations they are not ready for.
  • 21-Jun-2006 Bangkok Post
    US ’behind’ WHO official’s ouster
    Washington was behind the abrupt removal of a World Health Organisation representative to Thailand after he wrote of possible adverse impacts to Thailand of a free trade agreement with the US, a source said yesterday.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Korea, US call for win-win free trade
    In a welcoming speech at an evening reception in Seoul Tuesday, ahead of the 19th Korea-U.S. Business Council meeting, top businesspeople and government officials from Korea and the United States heard Hyosung Group, and council joint-chairman Cho Suck-rai, stress the importance of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Seoul blamed for stalled FTA talks with Tokyo: Japan envoy
    Negotiations on a free trade pact between South Korea and Japan remain in a stalemate because Seoul is demanding too many concessions in the agricultural sector from Tokyo, a top Japanese envoy said Tuesday.
  • 20-Jun-2006 AMCHAM Korea
    USKBC/AMCHAM Korea position paper on US-Korea free trade agreement
    US-Korea Business Council and American Chamber of Commerce Korea position paper on the US-Korea FTA.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    AMCHAM Malaysia/US Chamber of Commerce public submission for the proposed US-Malaysia free trade agreement
    A 98-page outline of US industry recommendations for the proposed US-Malaysia FTA.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    BIO letter to USTR on US-Korea FTA
    Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Korea FTA talks.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    BIO letter to USTR on US-Malaysia FTA
    Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Malaysia FTA talks.
  • 20-Jun-2006 Economic Times
    PM to explore chances of FTAs with Brazil, SA
    When Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends the IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) summit in Brazil on September 13, one of the main issues on the agenda is the possibility of a trilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the regional groupings in Latin America and South Africa.
  • 20-Jun-2006 FTA Watch
    FTA Watch letter to Japan PM on JTEPA
    FTA Watch would like to call upon the Japanese Government to explain its position clearly to the international community and to reassure the Thai people that it will not take advantage of their situation by signing the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement with the Thai caretaker Government
  • 20-Jun-2006 Times of India
    India-Asean FTA hits fresh roadblock
    The much touted India-Asean free trade agreement (FTA) is in a limbo with the 10-country trading bloc hardening its stance and seeking more concessions from India.
  • 20-Jun-2006 Antara
    NZ, Australia should be patient over ASEAN trade deal : Singapore PM
    New Zealand and Australia will have to be patient over striking a free trade deal with ASEAN countries, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Trade grows under Thai-India FTA
    Bilateral trade between Thailand and India has continued to grow after the two countries began implementing the Thai-Indian Free Trade Area (FTA) Agreement in September last year, according to a senior Commerce Ministry official.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    ..for speedy action on FTA deal with Pakistan
    China on Friday proposed that Beijing and Islamabad should speed up their joint study on a five-year plan for economic and trade cooperation and establish a Sino-Pakistani free trade agreement at an early date.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    CAFTA threatens small farmers
    Three times a week, Julian Mux walks two hours from his small parcel of land in the Guatemalan highlands to the nearest road, carrying just-harvested miniature zucchini that will end up in U.S. supermarkets.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Convincing Washington to sign a trade deal
    Recently, the Research and Planning Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei (AmCham) executive director Richard Vuylsteke to a conference discussing win-win strategies for negotiating a Taiwan-US free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Garment exporters seek US deal
    A contingent of local garments exporters is in Washington to seek support from United States Congress for a possible sectoral preferential trade deal.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Eleven days till Free Trade and doubts linger on
    Only eleven days before the scheduled date for entering the DR-CAFTA trade accord, officials doubt that the stipulated time slot will be met, because, according to them, the Dominican Republic is in no condition to render to new U.S. exigencies by July 1st.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Small farmers wary of CAFTA
    Whether the nation is ready or not, the 800-page DR-CAFTA treaty, replete with new rules and regulations, is set to become reality for the country.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    On the road again: Four goals for the new US Trade Representative
    Susan Schwab began work last week as US Trade Representative (USTR) at a difficult time for free trade.