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  • 22-Feb-2006 Online Opinion
    Free trade agreement - time to criticise big brother
    What message does it send to the world when we unquestioningly enter into an agreement with a country who seeks to change the rules of the international game in order to win?
  • 22-Feb-2006 Prensa Latina
    US like iron over FTA with Colombia
    The US inflexibility over Colombia’s most sensitive issues characterizes Tuesday the resumption of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks, which could be the last round between the two nations.
  • 21-Feb-2006 ITC
    US-Oman free trade agreement: Potential economy-wide and selected sectoral effects
    A February 2006 report from the US International Trade Commission
  • 21-Feb-2006 The Star
    Toyota plans to tap regional FTAs
    Toyota Motor Corp Japan is re-strategising its position in Malaysia to take advantage of free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between the countries in the region.
  • 21-Feb-2006 Gulf News
    UAE-Australia free trade pact likely this year
    A free trade agreement between the UAE and Australia is likely to be concluded by the middle of this year, said a top Australian official. The UAE is also likely to conclude another free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, while the GCC is expected to sign its own FTA with the European Union in May.
  • 21-Feb-2006 Resource Center of the Americas
    Ways and Means chair says US should drop lagging FTA partners
    House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) this week said the U.S. should drop partners in free trade agreement negotiations if talks on those agreements are not progressing.
  • 20-Feb-2006 AP
    Rice: Timing off for free trade with Egypt
    The United States will not seek a free trade agreement with Egypt this year because the "timing" is not right, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
  • 19-Feb-2006 AFP
    S Korean farmers, movie makers rally over US trade talks
    Some 2,000 South Korean farmers, movie-makers and anti-US activists staged a candlelight protest Friday against free trade negotiations with the United States.
  • 19-Feb-2006 Bangkok Post
    US-Thailand: Talks could slow over plant and drug issues
    Differences over pharmaceuticals could be overcome, but the countries are far from reaching a common understanding on biodiversity issues.
  • 19-Feb-2006
    Kenya and Venezuela sign bilateral trade agreement
    Kenya has signed an agreement with the Venezuela government to enhance bilateral co-operation between the two countries.
  • 19-Feb-2006
    Cabinet approves negotiations on bilateral investment agreement with Kuwait
    Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Wednesday approved negotiations on bilateral investment agreement between the governments of Pakistan and Kuwait.
  • 19-Feb-2006 IPS
    US free traders retreat on UAE ports deal
    In a replay of congressional efforts last year that foiled a bid by a Chinese company to buy a US oil firm, a group of hawkish US lawmakers, citing national security concerns, are trying to block a deal that gives a major Arab company control over a British firm that runs some US ports.
  • 19-Feb-2006 ZNet
    Hunger on the border
    The labor side agreement of NAFTA hasn’t forced anybody to take responsibility. It’s not an effective guarantee of anyone’s rights.
  • 19-Feb-2006 MCOT
    Thailand-US FTA talks likely to extend beyond April
    Although the local political situation has become heated, with rumours on dissolving the parliament prevaling in the country, the Thai-US negotiations will continue, Naris Chaiyasoot, Director General of the Ministry of Finance’s Fiscal Policy Office, said.
  • 19-Feb-2006
    Opening a trade gateway
    Hundreds of American companies have been invited to a key conference in Bahrain next week to discuss ways to enhance commercial ties between the two countries.
  • 19-Feb-2006 UNI
    Pakistan ratifies SAFTA - but no free trade with India
    Pakistan has ratified the much-trumpeted South Asia Free Trade Agreement (Safta), but trade between India and Pakistan will not be initiated under this agreement, instead it will continue under the existing import regime.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    Exclusion of rice from trade deal ‘possible’
    With the government’s recent efforts to sign a free trade agreement with the United States drawing intense opposition from farmers here, a top Korean government official said the trade negotiators would try to exempt rice from the economic pact.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    Time not right for US-Egypt trade pact: Rice
    The time is not right for the United States and Egypt to begin negotiations on a free- trade agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview on Friday with Arab media.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    US meets resistance on full access to finance
    A seminar heard yesterday that although US negotiators had asked Thailand to fully deregulate its financial services and allow US investors unrestricted stakes in the brokering and banking sectors, Bangkok was insisting that the sector was not ready to face direct competition.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    Brunei-Japan FTA talks on the cards
    Brunei and Japan will hold two-day preparatory talks starting Monday to conclude a bilateral free trade agreement.