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  • 29-Mar-2006 Advocate
    Goddard: Take EPA negotiations seriously
    According to the general secretary of the National Union of Public Workers, Joseph Goddard, workers in Barbados stand to be affected by the EPA negotiations in terms of government procurement, intellectual property rights, agriculture, the provision of decent work, fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals, adding that there is the possibility of the agreements compromising the country’s sovereignty.
  • 28-Mar-2006
    Manufacturers bitter with govt over delay in Free Trade deal
    Ugandan manufacturers are bitter with the government over its delay to sign the Free Trade Agreement.
  • 28-Mar-2006
    Pak commerce minister arrives April 19
    The commerce minister of Pakistan will make a three-day visit to Dhaka from April 19 to attend the Safta Ministerial Council (SMC) meeting and initiate talks on signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh.
  • 28-Mar-2006
    NZ to seek FTA talks with Arab countries
    New Zealand is to seek negotiations on a free trade agreement with a trade bloc of oil rich Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia.
  • 28-Mar-2006
    ’Spring struggle’: Industrial peace determines nation’s economic future
    The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) has announced it would stage a general strike in April 3-14 in protest of parliament’s passage of a bill that labor thinks unfavorable to irregular workers and the government’s "labor road map," followed by walkouts of some industrial unions. KCTU also opposes the Korea-US free trade agreement, while calling for the provision of free medical and educational services.
  • 28-Mar-2006 Financial Express
    Pakistan refuses to give MFN status to India even after Safta ratification
    Pakistan has decided not to give most favoured nation (MFN) status to India, even under the recently ratified South Asia free trade agreement (Safta), and has indicated that it will continue to trade with the country on the basis of a positive list.
  • 28-Mar-2006 Reuters
    Ecuadorean team eyes trade deal with US this week
    Ecuador could reach a free trade deal with the United States by the end of this week if the two sides can resolve difficult agricultural issues, Ecuadorean negotiators said on Monday.
  • 28-Mar-2006 Bloomberg
    Colombia and Guatemala plan free trade talks in June
    Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said in January the South American nation would negotiate free trade agreements with Guatemala and El Salvador.
  • 28-Mar-2006
    Colombia FTA could help sell more US rice
    The USA Rice Federation says the new US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement could mean increased sales of US rice - thanks, in part, to the persistence of the U.S. Trade Representative’s chief agricultural negotiator Richard Crowder.
  • 28-Mar-2006 AFSC
    Equitable trade and Southern Africa: A cookie cutter approach will cost lives and livelihoods
    Statement of the US-SACU FTA Working Group
  • 27-Mar-2006
    Possible Korea-Japan FTA could hurt conglomerates
    Even big Korean conglomerates may feel the blow if Seoul and Tokyo ink a free trade agreement, according to a report by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.
  • 27-Mar-2006
    Pakistan uncertain on SAFTA
    Pakistan remains unsure of India’s role in the South Asian Free Trade Agreement as bilateral economic cooperation talks begin Monday.
  • 27-Mar-2006
    Civil society, trade and the US-ROK relationship
    Remarks by Alexander Vershbow, US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
  • 27-Mar-2006
    On trade, the US and China need to go global
    With President Hu Jintao due to visit the United States, there is an urgent need for a cease-fire in the war of words between China and the United States over trade.
  • 27-Mar-2006
    2006 SME survey to address overseas competition, FTAs
    SINGAPORE: This year’s SME development survey will take on a different focus. The annual study will delve deeper into concerns among Singapore’s small- and medium-sized enterprises which are related to increasing competition overseas and the impact of free trade pacts.
  • 27-Mar-2006 Dominican Today
    Report considers DR hastily plunged into CAFTA trade accord
    Central American countries had negotiated every issue, and the Dominican Republic simply adhered to all that had already been convened.
  • 27-Mar-2006 Asia Times Online
    FTA to cut auto sales
    A free trade agreement between South Korea and Japan is expected to reduce domestic sales of local carmakers by up to 226,000 units annually.
  • 27-Mar-2006 MENAFN
    GCC, India likely to sign FTA next year
    India’s minister of commerce and industry said that GCC countries and India possibly will sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by early next year.
  • 27-Mar-2006 CBC
    Rally against partnership agreement
    Members of the islands public sector union and other Barbadians will be showing their dissent towards the most recent process of negotiations between Barbados and Cariforum countries this week.
  • 27-Mar-2006 Workers World
    Indigenous-led uprising challenges FTA, US domination
    Ecuadorian Indigenous organizations are in the leadership of the most recent uprising in that country, which began on March 13. Tired of being lied to, exploited and excluded, they have taken on the courageous road of challenging the Free Trade Agreement that is secretly, behind closed doors, being negotiated with the United States by President Alfredo Palacios.