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  • 25-Apr-2006
    NZ knows place in US trade game
    Delegates at the New Zealand-United States Partnership Forum in Washington are realistic about the tangible rewards of three days of meetings. They are few, if any.
  • 25-Apr-2006
    Industry minister: Venezuela will never ink FTA with the US
    "We will never initial a Free Trade Agreement (with the United States,) as they put men in the background and focus on the North," Venezuelan Light Industries and Commerce minister María Cristina Iglesias said Tuesday.
  • 25-Apr-2006
    FTA daggers leave Andeans gasping
    Venezuelan Minister for Integration and Foreign Trade Gustavo Márquez said on Monday that the countries which signed Free Trade Agreements with the US are responsible for the failure of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN).
  • 25-Apr-2006
    India remove negative list in FTA talks: Asean
    India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement talks are in troubled waters with Asean insisting on New Delhi to eliminate its big list of negative items, contrary to the stand taken by the former.
  • 25-Apr-2006
    Peru’s Prime Minister says FTA with US fundamental
    Peru’s Prime Minister Pedro Paulo Kuczynski said on Tuesday it’s "absolutely necessary" for his country to pass the free trade agreement with the U.S as the deal will allow Peruvian textile and agricultural industries to grow.
  • 25-Apr-2006 Bloomberg
    Chavez may consider Venezuela’s return to Andean Pact
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would consider returning to the Andean Community of Nations trade bloc provided Colombia and Peru reconsider their trade agreements with the US.
  • 25-Apr-2006 IRNA
    Iran, Cuba sign investment, trade MoU
    Iran and Cuba also have plans to finalize a preferential trade agreement to boost mutual trade exchange.
  • 25-Apr-2006 El Universal
    Colombia suggests FTA with Venezuela — in exchange for the CAN
    Colombian authorities on the border with Venezuela have proposed Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez to negotiate a bilateral Free Trade Agreement in exchange for the Andean Community of Nations (CAN).
  • 24-Apr-2006
    Keep the FTA away from our plasma
    It has been several years since my last donation, but yesterday I did my part towards saving someone’s life.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    At your service: Chinese FTA win
    Australia’s service providers - including the big banks, universities and construction and transport companies - yesterday received the strongest indication yet that they may be among the winners from the free trade agreement being negotiated with China.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    China is losing its single voice
    Businesspeople naturally admire decisiveness. This is one reason why China is so widely sought by corporate Australia as a trade and investment partner.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    Submission on the Transpacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement 2005
    The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (P4) is the latest attempt to bind the policy options of present and future New Zealand governments to a global liberalisation agenda that is facing a crisis.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    Korea-US FTA remains contentious
    Opinions were sharply divided at the National Assembly yesterday during a debate over the risks and benefits of a free trade agreement with the United States.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    No FTA if US interferes in country’s policies
    The Malaysian government will not finalise a Free Trade Agreement with the United States until all interests and needs of the country are taken into account.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    US-FTA blocks medicine for many
    The Guatemalan pharmaceutical industry is the strongest company in Central America and among the first 10 in Latin America, but it is today threatened by the free trade agreement (FTA) with United States.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    CII: level playing field for domestic industry
    Concerned at the spate of Free Trade Agreements being signed by Government, CII on Sunday demanded a comprehensive strategy to ensure a level playing field for the domestic industry including small and medium enterprises.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    North Korean goods pose local threat
    Cheaper products from North Korea’s Kaesong special economic zone, which is a part of the proposed Asean-South Korean free trade agreement, may flood into Thailand and hurt local producers, according to executives of the Board of Trade.
  • 24-Apr-2006
    US-NZ talks ’outstanding success’ but no FTA move
    The first ever US-NZ Partnership Forum, has been described as an "outstanding success" by its organizers, and will be repeated in New Zealand in 2007.
  • 24-Apr-2006 Centro de Medios Independientes de Colombia
    Macho men and state capitalism - is another world possible?
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is widely seen to be at the center of Latin America’s transformation by building a regional trade bloc through the creation of ALBA and Venezuela’s membership in Mercosur to oppose US dominance and its constant push for free trade agreements with Latin American governments. However, the true democratic debate has been silenced in this simplified two-sided fight between the projects of macho men.
  • 24-Apr-2006 Dawn
    Pitfalls in signing BIT with US
    A bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with the United States was billed to be signed during President Bush’s visit to Islamabad last month. However, the signing ceremony was put off because the US draft contained some provisions which President Musharraf said were highly objectionable and needed to be renegotiated.