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13-Apr-2006
ITP Business
The combined effects of the ongoing Dubai Ports World furore over the sale of six major US ports that sparked a catalytic delay in Free Trade Agreement talks between the US and the United Arab Emirates, could provide a significant economic boost to not only the UAE, but also to the Middle East, experts have suggested.
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13-Apr-2006
Sun2Surf
An interview with Chee Yoke Ling of Third World Network on globalisation, WTO and FTAs
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13-Apr-2006
The proposed review of India’s Free Trade Agreements points to a much deeper malaise in the process of formulating trade policy. Too often, a fondness for a general principle is allowed to completely overwhelm the specific concerns of each case.
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13-Apr-2006
United States and Peru signed Wednesday a bilateral free trade treaty - two years in the making - at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington.
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13-Apr-2006
The Korean government has rolled up its sleeves to win over public support for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, as it is faced with more and more voices worrying about its possible negative implications.
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13-Apr-2006
A key US negotiator reaffirmed Wednesday that a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea means opening up its rice market.
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13-Apr-2006
The Peninsula
The Gulf states all set to have a common market by 2007, GCC secretary general, H E Abdul Rahman Al Attiyah, said yesterday.
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12-Apr-2006
At just $4million, it’s hardly the biggest biotech deal ever struck by an Australian company, but it’s an important first.
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12-Apr-2006
CNR
"El Sr. Toledo debe irse a su casa y no firmar cosas para las que ya no tiene autoridad."
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12-Apr-2006
An estimated 3,000 Korean unionists in the information and technology sector have tried to flood the e-mail box of US President George W Bush with bulk messages in protest of the ongoing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks.
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12-Apr-2006
Sun2Surf
A recent symposium has sent a siren call to Malaysian institutions and the public to voice their concerns against the impending signing of the US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which, the organisers said, would affect local society in many ways, from job and food security to access to affordable medication.
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12-Apr-2006
Canadian Press
Trade negotiators are riding roughshod over the interests of Canada’s auto industry as they hurry to seal a free trade deal with South Korea, the president of DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. said Tuesday.
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12-Apr-2006
Korea Times
An opposition party lawmaker Tuesday raised suspicions that the government tried to fabricate the estimated trade balance over a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States in order to gain favorable public opinion.
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12-Apr-2006
Prensa Latina
Peru’s President Alejandro Toledo is in the United States for four days, during which he and George W Bush will be present to sign a free trade treaty in spite of considerable Peruvian demands against it.
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12-Apr-2006
Bangkok Post
The livelihoods of Thai farmers might be put into jeopardy if the free trade area agreement (FTA) between the US and Thailand is put in place, warned Oxfam America, a humanitarian organisation.
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12-Apr-2006
AP
The United States and Peru on Wednesday signed a free trade agreement that the US administration said will lead to increased prosperity in both countries.
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11-Apr-2006
New Straits Times
The distorting aspects of bilateral free trade agreements can be avoided by adopting a multilateral approach, argues Mohamed Ariff.
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11-Apr-2006
Black Enterprise
The American government demands that the Bahrain government enact laws protecting intellectual property rights for computer programs and patent registry as a condition for implementing the free trade agreement.
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11-Apr-2006
IPS
A proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the ten-nation Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has hit a major roadblock with India’s agriculture ministry objecting to the inclusion of commodities like pepper, rubber, palm oil, coffee and tea in an ambitious tariff liberalisation programme.
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10-Apr-2006
Asean has told New Zealand, whose big dairy and meat product trade to the regional grouping has slowed in recent years, that it risks losing market share to newer competitors muscling their way into the area unless its exporters turn more creative and move quickly to meet changing regional consumer needs.
