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  • 27-Apr-2006
    New FTA laws delay rapped
    An MP accused the Commerce and Industry ministry of sleeping yesterday after it asked parliament to push through six new laws that should activate Bahrain’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Final hurdle
    Six laws that should allow Bahrain’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US to be enacted were passed by MPs in a single sitting yesterday.It means the FTA could finally come into effect by July.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela to ink People’s Trade Treaty
    The governments of Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba next Saturday are initialing in Havana a pact to jump start the People’s Trade Treaty (TCP), Bolivian President Evo Morales said, as reported on Wednesday by several Bolivian media.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Seoul to exclude products from trade deal
    South Korea’s chief negotiator to free trade talks with the United States said Thursday that Seoul will try to exclude "super-sensitive products" from the deal, an apparent appeasement to farmers vehemently opposed to the pact.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    UAE, US to resume FTA talks next month
    The UAE and the United States will resume their Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks in Abu Dhabi on May 9, it was revealed here yesterday.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    ADB set to promote trade liberalization
    Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank would help promote regional trade liberalization as part of the institution’s mid- and long-term strategies.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Viet Nam, Japan start second FTA study session in Tokyo
    Viet Nam and Japan began their second study session in Tokyo on April 26 to explore the possibility of signing a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 27-Apr-2006 Frontline
    Treaties to protect foreign investors
    Bilateral investment treaties have become potential weapons of multinational companies against developing country governments and societies. India has signed more than 50 of them. Yet BITs remain largely outside the domain of public discussion.
  • 27-Apr-2006 AP
    Chavez says South America should unite, reject US trade pacts
    South American nations will have to choose whether they want continental unity or individual trade agreements with the United States — but not both, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday.
  • 27-Apr-2006 stuff
    Two former US officials talk up NZ
    Two former senior United States officials have urged the US to re-start military exercises and start negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand.
  • 27-Apr-2006 Granma
    Guatemala: Between the sword and impotence
    As during the crudest times of interventionism in banana republics, James Derham, US proconsul in Guatemala, snuck into a session of Congress on April 18 to pressure legislators to approve — now! — a complimentary law being demanded by the United States so that the country definitely enters into a Free Trade Agreement.
  • 27-Apr-2006 Japan Times
    Diet steps closer to ratifying free-trade pact with Malaysia
    The Diet cleared a free-trade agreement with Malaysia on Wednesday, bringing the pact one step closer to coming into force. To complete the ratification process, the Diet still needs to pass related bills concerning rules on product origin and tariff rates. In Malaysia, ratification does not require legislative measures, only administrative procedures.
  • 26-Apr-2006
    Iglesias: Minister repeats demand that Bogotá, Lima drop deals with Washington
    Light Industry and Trade Minister María Cristina Iglesias reiterated the government’s position that Colombia and Peru would have to abandon the bilateral trade deals they recently signed with the United States if Venezuela were to stay in the Andean Community of Nations.
  • 26-Apr-2006 Oxfam
    A US Free Trade Agreement could threaten access to medicine in Thailand
    New stringent drug patent and marketing rules being negotiated in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Thailand would limit competition and reduce access to affordable medicines in Thailand.
  • 26-Apr-2006 AP
    US free trade deals leave a bitter taste with Latin Americans
    "Nobody who sat across the negotiating table from the United States came out of the talks feeling they got a fair deal," said Peter Hakim, president of the nonpartisan Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington. "And many feel they’ve been outright cheated."
  • 26-Apr-2006 Manila Times
    Asean-Korea trade deal sealed soon
    Member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations expect to conclude a free trade agreement with South Korea in a meeting to be held in the Philippines next month, the Department of Trade and Industry said.
  • 26-Apr-2006 Dawn
    Free trade pact with Bahrain shortly
    Pakistan and Bahrain will shortly ink Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which would boost trade between the two countries.
  • 26-Apr-2006 Scoop
    Shifting centres of gravity in Latin America
    COPA the Panamanian airline is now flying the Brazilian company Embraer’s E-190 commercial airliners on routes previously dominated by Boeing 737s. This detail highlights broader shifts in the economic balance of power in Latin America away from United States corporations.
  • 26-Apr-2006 YONHAP
    FTA with Japan, China would hurt local fisheries sector: report
    A free trade pact between South Korea, China and Japan could damage South Korea’s fisheries industry, a report said Wednesday.
  • 26-Apr-2006 Emerging Textiles
    Hopes of US duty-free access fading for Asian countries
    The road to US duy-free access could be longer than expected for a series of emerging countries. While Pakistan was recently refused that textiles and apparel benefit from preferential treatment, chances of duty-free access for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Cambodia are progressively fading.