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  • 16-Apr-2006 Daily Times
    US unwilling on increased market access for textiles
    The United States is reluctant to give increased market access for textile to Pakistan and has conveyed that any new trading arrangement that could be finalized between the two countries would be minus textile, a senior official told the Daily Times on Saturday.
  • 16-Apr-2006 Xinhua
    Public-sectors to be excluded from FTA with US: ROK
    South Korean chief negotiator for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States Kim Jong-hoon said Saturday that the public-sectors services would be excluded from the FTA talks.
  • 16-Apr-2006 ACN
    Bolivia moves to support Latin American integration
    The Bolivian representative to an anti-“free trade” conference underway in Havana, proposed a “People’s Trade Agreement” - a joint initiative between the government and social movements in that South American country.
  • 16-Apr-2006 Xinhua
    Ecuador launches efforts to renew FTA negotiations with US
    The Ecuadorian government hopes to have the next round of FTA negotiations on May 8 in Washington — if it manages to pass an amendment bill to the Hydrocarbons Law. But the legislation is being staunchly opposed by private oil firms.
  • 15-Apr-2006 This Day
    West Africa: Oxfam cautions on Economic Partnership Agreements
    Oxfam yesterday urged West African nations not to mortgage their future by signing on to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) being negotiated with the European Union.
  • 14-Apr-2006 Daily Times
    Pakistan, US agree to conclude BIT soon
    Pakistan and United States on Thursday agreed to conclude Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) as early as possible.
  • 14-Apr-2006
    Defense of FTA with US - positive attitude needed to persuade people
    A presidential senior secretary strongly defended Korea’s move to sign a free trade deal with the United States by saying that the deal, if successfully concluded, would pull the nation into the ranks of advanced countries.
  • 14-Apr-2006 Bangkok Post
    Poorest farmers will need more help
    A failure to manage trade liberalisation and agricultural policy could make the financial plight of Thai farmers worse, warns Prapat Panyachatraksa, a former agriculture minister.
  • 14-Apr-2006 Africast
    ECOWAS trade ministers agree on conditions for EPA
    ECOWAS Trade Ministers have rounded off a one-day appraisal meeting on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union with an agreement on pre-conditions to be fulfilled before the beginning of the second phase of the negotiations.
  • 13-Apr-2006 SABC News
    Cosatu warns of job losses on SA-China trade deal
    The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has warned government that thousands of textile workers, especially women, will soon join the unemployment queue.
  • 13-Apr-2006
    Free trade between US and neighbors is alive and well
    Critics of a free trade agreement in the Americas point to what they perceive are missed deadlines and lost opportunities as proof that a hemisphere-wide pact is dead and gone.
  • 13-Apr-2006
    Japan to be less demanding on FTAs with Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos
    Japan will not demand as much market opening in negotiations on free trade agreements with Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, compared with talks with the more developed members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, it was learned Monday.
  • 13-Apr-2006
    US trade pact causes row in Peru
    Ollanta Humala, frontrunner in Peru’s presidential election. Mr Humala says the deal should be put to a popular vote Peru’s decision to sign a free-trade agreement with the US has provoked a domestic political row, with critics calling for the deal to be blocked.
  • 13-Apr-2006
    NGO says trade talks could pit one African national against another
    As African trade ministers continue their meeting in Nairobi, NGOs are trying to make their positions known on various issues, including the economic partnership agreement being negotiated between the EU and African states and agricultural subsidies used by rich nations.
  • 13-Apr-2006
    Peru farmers unite vs. FTA with US
    Peruvian farmers are organizing a march from Cusco to Lima to protest the free trade agreement with the US, the president of Peru’s National Agrarian Confederation, Antolin Huascar, stated Thursday.
  • 13-Apr-2006
    First FTA victims in El Salvador
    With just 40 days in force, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US already has negative effects for the Salvadoran people, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) has denounced Thursday.
  • 13-Apr-2006
    Choeng Wa Dae remarks on FTA are only a start
    President Roh Moo-hyun’s public relations secretary Lee Baek-man has rejected criticism from circles close to the government that a planned free-trade agreement with the US would amount to selling out the nation.
  • 13-Apr-2006 Miami Herald
    Caribbean bloc considers free trade talks
    The CARICOM bloc already enjoys preferential access to the US market through the Caribbean Basin Initiative. But key textile concessions are set to expire in 2008, and the region has been losing ground to competitors in Central and South America as those countries sign free trade deals with Washington.
  • 13-Apr-2006 AlterNet
    Blame NAFTA
    Thanks to NAFTA’s success, the flood of illegal immigration is up and the standard of living of the average Mexican is down.
  • 13-Apr-2006 AND Network
    Botswana: Mogae unhappy with progress on EPAs
    President Festus Mogae is unhappy with the pace of the on-going negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).