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  • 20-Apr-2006 TCS Daily
    The US and China: strategic disconnect
    A large set of strategic economic and security questions will challenge both US and Chinese leaders over the next decade. These relate directly to the growth of Asian regionalism, with attendant political institutions, decisions regarding new regional trade and investment agreements, as well as a potential new security architecture for at least East and South Asia.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Business Day
    Sacu talks resume with US
    Interview with Deputy US Trade Representative Karan Bhatia.
  • 20-Apr-2006 CRI
    US Ambassador unhappy about Japan’s idea of East Asia FTA
    US Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer expressed concern on Wednesday about Japan’s idea to create a free trade zone in East Asia, claiming it could damage US regional interests.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Oxfam America
    US-Peru free trade deal a step back for development
    International aid organization Oxfam criticized today’s signing of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Washington, an agreement it says would do more harm than good for millions of Peruvians who live in poverty.
  • 20-Apr-2006 Oxfam America
    Tell Congress: oppose the US-Peru free trade agreement!
    Oxfam has set up a web page where you can send letters to US Congress urging them to reject the US-Peru FTA, signed last week.
  • 19-Apr-2006 Chosun Ilbo
    Framework for Korea-US FTA unveiled
    The two countries agreed to withhold some of the negotiation documents from the public for three years after the accord comes into effect.
  • 19-Apr-2006 Sydney Morning Herald
    US trade deal failing some Aussie firms
    Australia’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States is only benefiting businesses with well-established links, Australia’s peak industry group says.
  • 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.