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  • 22-Apr-2006 AllAfrica.com
    SADC-EU trade negotiations: the overlapping membership conundrum
    The challenges of overlapping memberships of regional groupings are coming to the fore as African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries seek a new economic partnership with the European Union (EU).
  • 22-Apr-2006 stuff
    NZ-Korea free trade deal some time away
    New Zealand and Korea’s $2 billion two-way trade could be in danger of stagnating if New Zealand is shut out of future free trade agreements. However, it appears there is "little political will" in Korea to enter formal negotiations with New Zealand.
  • 22-Apr-2006 Prensa Latina
    Bolivia, Andeans limp, LatAm grows
    Bolivia has ruled out Friday leaving the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) but agreed the bloc has been mortally wounded by the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) of two of its partners with the US.
  • 21-Apr-2006 Korea Times
    US FTA to hit service industry hard
    With low productivity and lack of competitiveness, Korea’s service industry is expected to face a critical test as the result of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.
  • 21-Apr-2006 Asia Times
    Why farmers may block US-Korea FTA
    Those outside Korea tend to assume that negotiations for a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the United States are the perfect tool to weaken the South Korean addiction to agricultural protection.
  • 21-Apr-2006 IPS
    Last rites for Andean Community?
    The Andean Community "is dead" said Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia Wednesday, referring to the trade bloc that their countries form part of along with Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
  • 21-Apr-2006 Reuters
    US warns Ecuador free-trade pact at risk
    The United States warned Ecuador on Thursday that a proposed free-trade agreement was at risk unless Quito acted on a growing list of investment and other concerns.
  • 21-Apr-2006
    EU-CAN Political Dialog and Cooperation Agreement (2003)
  • 21-Apr-2006 Movimiento Boliviano por la Soberanía y la Integración solidaria de los pueblos
    EU-CAN association agreement: another FTA in disguise
    Analysts within the Bolivian Movement for Sovereignty and Integration of the Peoples studied the recently published results of the Joint Assessment of the Association Agreement between the EU and the Andean Community.
  • 21-Apr-2006 Financial Express
    New mantras of regional economic co-operation
    India has, of late, engaged itself in forming bilateral/regional economic cooperation in a variety of forms.
  • 21-Apr-2006 3D
    Trade-related intellectual property rights, access to medicines and human rights - Morocco
    The briefing calls for an independent human rights impact assessment of the effect of intellectual property rules in the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on access to medicines and the enjoyment of human rights in Morocco.
  • 21-Apr-2006 Asia Times
    Malaysians question US free-trade deal
    A popular movement opposing government plans to negotiate a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the United States is gaining momentum in Malaysia.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Chosun Ilbo
    Kaesong complex emerges as hurdle in FTA talks
    South Korea and the United States are holding behind the scenes negotiations to iron out differences ahead of a bilateral free trade agreement. One of many sticking points is whether the US will accept goods made in the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex as South Korean products.
  • 20-Apr-2006 TMCnet
    US calls for more rigorous free trade pact with South Korea
    The United States’ free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea will have more provisions than those with other countries to reflect unique barriers specific to the Asian nation, according to Wendy Cutler, assistant US Trade Representative and chief negotiator to the South Korea-US FTA (KORUS FTA) talks.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Dominican Today
    Taiwan’s president touts free trade with Dominican Republic
    Taiwan president Chen Shui-Bian said yesterday that negotiations with the Dominican Republic are advancing toward the signing of a Free Trade Agreement, in which both nations seek to establish a strategic economic and trade alliance that allows them to conquer the United States market.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Reuters
    Venezuela to withdraw from Andean trade bloc
    Venezuela, which has criticized Andean nations as being overly aligned with the United States, plans to withdraw from the Andean Community of Nations, President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday.
  • 20-Apr-2006 AP
    Ecuador seeks to salvage free trade deal
    Ecuador’s ambassador to Washington return to Quito for consultations on how to overcome an impasse with US free trade negotiators over an oil-tax bill designed to cut into foreign windfall crude profits.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Prensa Latina
    US pushing FTA on Guatemala
    US ambassador in Guatemala James Derham appeared in Congress Wednesday to pressure for approval of complementary laws to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 20-Apr-2006 Bangkok Post
    Americans offer to help with talks
    American businesses have offered help in lobbying the US Congress to allow talks on the Thai-US free-trade agreement to move forward, according to the Thai Chamber of Commerce.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Online
    Pakistan-Bangladesh agree to conclude bilateral FTA by September, 2006
    The bilateral FTA would go beyond the tariff concessions provided under the SAFTA agreement.