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  • 27-Mar-2006 AFP
    Malaysian activists launch campaign against free trade deal with US
    Malaysian activists over the weekend launched a campaign against a planned bilateral free trade deal with the US, saying it could undermine job and food security and the nation’s economy.
  • 26-Mar-2006 USTR
    The US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA): The intellectual property provisions
    Report of the US government’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC-15)
  • 25-Mar-2006 Korea Times
    US FTA set to impact entertainment industry
    Korean culture and entertainment industries will suffer considerable damage from a Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), a local think tank warned Friday.
  • 25-Mar-2006
    Peru torn over FTA with US
    Peruvians are divided Friday on the possible ratification of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with United States, because businesspeople insist on implementing it, but agricultural farmers reject it.
  • 25-Mar-2006 Forbes
    Free trade pacts are bad for business
    The WTO on March 22 issued a report criticizing the US pursuit of free trade agreements. The report claims that US free trade agreements create political interests in other countries, which complicate the multilateral process.
  • 25-Mar-2006 Jakarta Post
    RI seeks closer trade ties with US
    After four years of stagnant trade relations, the government plans to start intensifying talks with the United States and support a joint-study group on a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with the country, a minister says.
  • 25-Mar-2006 NDTV
    India-Asean FTA hits a roadblock
    The India-Asean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has hit a roadblock with Agriculture Ministry objecting to inclusion of farm products like pepper, rubber, palm oil, coffee and tea in the tariff liberalisation programme.
  • 25-Mar-2006 Granma International
    Indigenous movement proposes to assume its own power
    Given the rejection by Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio of the demands made by the popular sector, the indigenous movement is today to assume power itself and convene a popular consultation on the Free Trade Agreement.
  • 24-Mar-2006 Chosunibo
    ’Fisheries could lose W80 billion under US FTA’
    Once tariffs are removed under a putative free-trade agreement with the US, Korea’s domestic fishing industry could lose between W51.1 billion (US$51 million) and W84.9 billion (US$87 million).
  • 24-Mar-2006 The Hindu
    Kamal Nath for separate FTA with Bangladesh
    India is for a South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) "plus’’ a separate free trade arrangement with Bangladesh that would address the existing trade imbalance between the two countries, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Wednesday.
  • 24-Mar-2006
    FTA Watch statement: In support of Korean people’s struggle against the Korea-US FTA
    Although Thailand and South Korea are different in terms of development, people in both countries share a common demand for the protection of their right to affordable medicines and treatment.
  • 23-Mar-2006 Reuters
    US will seek fast renewal of trade authority: Portman
    The top US trade official said on Wednesday he would push for quick renewal of trade promotion authority, which allows the White House to negotiate agreements that Congress must approve or reject but cannot change.
  • 23-Mar-2006 SANA
    Some European countries call for endorsing Association Agreement with Syria
    A source of the Higher Committee Specialized in Following up Issues of Partnership Association between Syria and EU has said that the EU has started to issue positive signals regarding agreement with Syria, particularly that some EU countries consider that there is no excuse for delaying signing the agreement after two years of initialing it.
  • 23-Mar-2006 Upside Down World
    Ecuador: Protests against free trade reach critical juncture
    The Ecuadorian government declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, March 21 after countrywide protests and roadblocks led by indigenous peasants intensified.
  • 22-Mar-2006 The Star
    Malaysia’s Mahathir fears planned FTA with U.S. could have ’adverse’ consequences
    Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday warned that a free trade agreement with the United States could harm Malaysia, claiming that a similar pact signed with Japan recently has brought no benefits.
  • 22-Mar-2006 MercoPress
    Ecuador: rioting against free trade agreement with US escalates
    Ecuador’s main Indian federation claimed Monday that 30 peasants had been hospitalized and over 100 arrested during violent protests against a free trade pact with the United States scheduled to be signed in the coming days.
  • 22-Mar-2006 Asia Times
    How to beat US trade barriers
    The transshipment issue — the illicit movement of shoes, shrimp and garments that have been repackaged, re-labeled and re-exported after being shipped to Indonesia — has cast a shadow over recently warmed US-Indonesian bilateral relations and threaten to damage the Southeast Asian country’s chances of a full free-trade agreement (FTA) with the US.
  • 22-Mar-2006 Financial Express
    EU eyeing free trade deals in Asia: Mandelson
    The European Union is exploring the prospect of free trade deals with Asian nations once the current round of world trade talks is over, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said on Tuesday.
  • 22-Mar-2006 World Peace Herald
    India in center of effort for world’s largest free trade area
    India is pushing ahead on negotiations for free trade agreements with a series of Asian and Middle East countries that are expected to result in the emergence of the world’s largest free trade area by population.
  • 22-Mar-2006 AP
    Venezuela’s Chavez lashes out at free trade pacts while agreeing to El Salvador fuel sales
    Chavez argues that US-proposed free-trade pacts would help big US companies at the expense of Latin America’s poor.