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  • 21-Jun-2006
    Taiwan hopes to sign FTA with El Salvador in October
    Taiwan hopes to sign a free trade agreement with El Salvador in October, if negotiations could be completed smoothly, Director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Department of Central and South American Affairs Ko Jai-son said on Tuesday.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    Trade should be linked to normalisation with India and not resolution of Kashmir
    Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said in Karachi on Sunday that no progress had been made so far with the Indian government on the resolution of Siachen, let alone Kashmir and other vital issues, but he hoped that “outstanding issues will be resolved soon if the dialogue between the two neighbours continues”.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    Bear Stearns doubts short delay onto DR-CAFTA would affect investment
    A short term delay before implementing the DR-CAFTA trade accord should not significantly affect investment plans in the country, according to the U.S. investment company, Bear Stearns.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    Looking East
    Baby steps are not always giant leaps for India, let alone for mankind. The reopening of the Nathu La pass, a key junction for trade between India and China over centuries, could have been a momentous event.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    South Africa: Engaging China
    This week’s visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to seven African countries, including SA, is a highly strategic one.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    Seminar held on SAFTA
    The SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) organized a seminar on SAFTA, Expanding Business Opportunities in Karachi on the occasion of Seventh SAARC trade fair.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    One-sided negotiation pattern
    Before I moved to South Korea, I learned my host country is practically an American protectorate. By watching news it is easy to see from outside: Wartime command, intervening in North-South relations, and so on.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    S Korea FTA can weather Democrats in Congress
    South Korea has internationally recognized labor and environmental standards that would ease opposition by US Democrats who traditionally don’t favour trade agreements with foreign countries, a South Korean asserted this week.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    Korean, US business leaders vow to support FTA
    Korea and US business leaders agreed Wednesday to push for the completion of a free trade agreement between Korea and the US. But at the 19th Korea-US Business Council meeting in Seoul, the two sides failed to see eye to eye on some key issues, especially whether products made in the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex should be included and whether Koreans should be granted a visa waiver in the US.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    Gulf trade talks may widen
    THE Government will look at expanding its free trade negotiations with the United Arab Emirates to take in a deal with a much wider group of Middle Eastern nations. The member states of the Gulf Co-operation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - have asked Australia to incorporate the bilateral negotiations into a wider deal.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    Korea, Canada to hold FTA talks
    South Korea will hold a series of talks with Canada in Seoul next week on a free trade agreement (FTA), the country’s Agriculture Ministry said Tuesday.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    U.S.-Korea FTA Talks Unlikely to Succeed
    The United States is the world’s largest economy while South Korea ranks tenth. The two countries started negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in Washington D.C. June 5-10.
  • 21-Jun-2006
    US Sticks to Excluding Kaesong From FTA
    The United States does not want goods produced in the Kaesong industrial complex to be included in the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, a senior economic official at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said.
  • 21-Jun-2006 Hankyoreh
    Agricultural bodies file suit over US-SK trade agenda
    The Korean Peasants League and the Korea Dairy & Beef Farmers Association have filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the ministry’s reluctance to share information with them related to the first round of South Korean-US free trade talks that concluded in Washington last week.
  • 21-Jun-2006 TVNZ
    Is the Pacific ready for trade talks?
    Pacific Trade Ministers begin annual talks in Fiji on Wednesday, amid claims New Zealand is pressuring Pacific Forum countries into starting free trade negotiations they are not ready for.
  • 21-Jun-2006 Bangkok Post
    US ’behind’ WHO official’s ouster
    Washington was behind the abrupt removal of a World Health Organisation representative to Thailand after he wrote of possible adverse impacts to Thailand of a free trade agreement with the US, a source said yesterday.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Korea, US call for win-win free trade
    In a welcoming speech at an evening reception in Seoul Tuesday, ahead of the 19th Korea-U.S. Business Council meeting, top businesspeople and government officials from Korea and the United States heard Hyosung Group, and council joint-chairman Cho Suck-rai, stress the importance of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    Seoul blamed for stalled FTA talks with Tokyo: Japan envoy
    Negotiations on a free trade pact between South Korea and Japan remain in a stalemate because Seoul is demanding too many concessions in the agricultural sector from Tokyo, a top Japanese envoy said Tuesday.
  • 20-Jun-2006 AMCHAM Korea
    USKBC/AMCHAM Korea position paper on US-Korea free trade agreement
    US-Korea Business Council and American Chamber of Commerce Korea position paper on the US-Korea FTA.
  • 20-Jun-2006
    AMCHAM Malaysia/US Chamber of Commerce public submission for the proposed US-Malaysia free trade agreement
    A 98-page outline of US industry recommendations for the proposed US-Malaysia FTA.