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  • 28-Feb-2006 Arab News
    Japan seeks free trade deal with Gulf
    Japan plans to begin talks with six Gulf Arab states this year toward a free-trade agreement in the aim of securing stable energy supplies, officials said yesterday.
  • 28-Feb-2006 ICTSD/UNCTAD
    Intellectual property provisions of bilateral and regional trade agreements in light of US federal law
    The critical lesson for developing countries accepting IPRs commitments in FTAs with the United States is that US IPRs law is replete with exceptions to the general rules, in many cases elaborated in considerable detail. If developing countries accept obligations in the FTAs, they must also be prepared to implement a significant level of exceptions so as to create a reasonable balance within their own law. If they do not implement these exceptions, they will find themselves not only with TRIPS-plus levels of IPRs protection, but also with US-plus levels of IPRs protection.
  • 28-Feb-2006 Bangkok Post
    Trade negotiations command attention
    Amidst the promises of positive benefits of FTAs to Thailand, more and more citizens are raising questions, especially in relation to the services and investment sectors.
  • 28-Feb-2006
    EPA signing, FTA parleys postponed
    Thailand has postponed the signing of its Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Japan, and suspended free trade area (FTA) negotiations with the US until the formation of the new government, chief negotiators for the two pacts said yesterday.
  • 27-Feb-2006 Navhind Times
    Indian IT sector eyeing free trade pact with US
    India’s dollar-spinning information technology industry is looking forward to some positive initiatives towards inking a free trade agreement with the US in the services sector during the US President, Mr George W Bush’s visit to the country.
  • 27-Feb-2006 AFX
    Japan may begin FTA talks with India as early as summer - report
    The government will possibly this summer enter into negotiations with India on a bilateral economic partnership treaty, of which a free trade agreement (FTA) would form the core, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, citing government sources.
  • 27-Feb-2006 Channel News Asia
    Singapore and Panama to sign FTA on March 1
    Singapore and Panama will sign a free trade agreement on Wednesday.
  • 27-Feb-2006 Reuters
    US says reaches free trade deal with Colombia
    The United States has reached a free trade deal with Colombia after nearly two years of talks, the US Trade Representative said on Monday.
  • 27-Feb-2006 Bangkok Post
    Election pushes back Japan FTA
    Thailand and Japan have postponed off the signing of their bilateral trade pact earlier scheduled for April 3-4, pending the outcome of Thailand’s upcoming general election, a senior offcial said Monday.
  • 27-Feb-2006 FT
    Costa Rican presidential hopeful promises to obstruct Cafta
    The leader of Costa Rica’s second largest political party has vowed to obstruct efforts to ratify a 2004 free trade agreement between Central America and the US.
  • 27-Feb-2006 AFX
    S Korea’s Roh says FTA with US top priority
    President Roh Moo-Hyun said that reaching a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States will be the top priority for his government during his remaining tenure.
  • 27-Feb-2006
    Roadmap for WTO negotiations on Art. XXIV GATT
    The WTO rules for bilateral agreements, set by Art. XXIV of GATT are currently under re-negotiation in the WTO. Below is an internal informal WTO discussion paper on these negotiations. This is an invitation to discuss this paper on the Forum of this website on "bilateralism".
  • 27-Feb-2006 The Nation
    IPO plans for state firms, FTAs face uncertain future as new election called
    The dissolution of the House of Representatives has put the Thai government’s key economic policies - free-trade deals, the privatisation of state enterprises and investment in mega-projects - in limbo.
  • 26-Feb-2006 FT
    Cairo angered by US trade talks freeze
    Rachid Mohamed Rachid, Egypt’s trade and industry minister, criticised Washington yesterday for mixing business with politics in its decision to freeze negotiations on a free trade agreement.
  • 26-Feb-2006 Miami Herald
    El Salvador: Free trade to begin in March
    A free-trade agreement with El Salvador will take effect on March 1, the Bush administration announced, initially leaving behind five other Latin American nations that are supposed to be part of the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
  • 26-Feb-2006 The Independent
    SAARC countries signing bilateral, multilateral FTAs one after another
    The South Asian economies including Bangladesh are becoming more and more regional trade-prone and they are going for bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) alongside regional arrangements like South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA).
  • 25-Feb-2006 Prensa Latina
    Guatemalans march against US FTA
    Hundreds of union members, farmers, women, indigenous and representatives of other Guatemalan sectors marched in front of the US Embassy Friday chanting "No to the TLC" (Spanish for FTA).
  • 25-Feb-2006 AP
    Japan and Chile agree to speed negotiations
    Japanese and Chilean officials agreed to continue talks aimed at forging a free trade accord swiftly, government officials said Friday.
  • 25-Feb-2006 The Hindu
    UNCTAD talks on trade remain inconclusive
    The UNCTAD negotiations held in Kochi to assess the impact of trade as per the WTO regime as well as the ASEAN FTA on the local agricultural and industrial sectors, elicited inadequate response from the stakeholders.
  • 24-Feb-2006 Tripping up TRIPs debates
    Tripping up TRIPs debates
    Access to medicine is at the forefront of multilateral debates surrounding the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). This paper argues that bilateralism allows the United States to circumvent these debates and to set standards that serve and protect the pharmaceutical industry.