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  • 12-Jan-2006
    Pledge given on free trade
    A group of United States senators has vowed to fight for a free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand after a high-level meeting in Christchurch.
  • 12-Jan-2006 Xinhua
    China willing to negotiate FTA with African countries, organizations
    China is willing to negotiate Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with African countries and African regional organizations when conditions are ripe, according to China’s African Policy Paper issued Thursday in Beijing. The paper, the first of its kind, said the Chinese government encourages and supports Chinese enterprises’ investment and business in Africa.
  • 12-Jan-2006 Asia Times
    Riding Thailand’s political bandwagon
    EGAT’s privatization and the US trade talks represent the most ambitious efforts of two of Thaksin’s core economic platforms: the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the proliferation of bilateral FTAs. So it is no surprise that both issues crystallize the wider debate on the state of democracy and the country’s development path.
  • 12-Jan-2006 Reuters
    Bush signs Bahrain trade pact, a first for Gulf
    President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed a bill enacting a free-trade agreement with Bahrain, the first such pact with a Gulf country and only the third with an Arab state.
  • 12-Jan-2006 AFP
    US says no quick free trade deal with Sri Lanka
    The United States warned Sri lanka against banking on a quick free trade deal to fix its economic woes and urged the island to restore peace and open its markets.
  • 12-Jan-2006 Asia Pulse
    Australia-Thailand free trade deal to be challenged in court
    Australia’s booming trade relations with Thailand are in doubt as a constitutional court challenge against the countries’ free trade pact looms in Bangkok.
  • 12-Jan-2006 Miami Herald
    Anti-trade feelings delay CAFTA
    The Central American Free Trade agreement faces skepticism and negative sentiment in countries working to implement the pact.
  • 11-Jan-2006 The Nation
    Thai-US FTA talks: Stumbling block
    The Thai-US free-trade talks hit a snag yesterday after the head Thai negotiator for intellectual-property rights declared demands by the US for Thailand to tighten up drug patenting as “unacceptable”.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    FTA to diversify Morocco’s foreign partnerships and markets
    "The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States opens the Moroccan economy towards a new world. It is an opportunity for us to diversify our partnerships, our markets and strengthen our means of competition in an increasingly global economy," said Mohamed Benayad, secretary general of the National Council for Foreign Trade (CNCE).
  • 11-Jan-2006
    Panama heats up over FTA
    The resignation Wednesday of a key minister at Panama-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks added more fuel to the national atmosphere, which looks like it’s heading for a revival of the union movement.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    Senator McCain backs US-NZ free trade deal
    A senior United States Senator, John McCain says New Zealand’s nuclear free policy should not affect the country’s chances of securing a free trade deal with the US.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    KITA launches web portal on FTAs
    The Korea International Trade Association on Wednesday launched a web portal on the country’s free trade agreements.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    Urgent call to amend FTA
    THE Bracks Government yesterday called on the Federal Government to negotiate "urgent amendments" to the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, claiming Victorian manufacturers had become victims of artificial trade barriers.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    International NGO solidarity statement: US-Thai free trade negotiations
    Thai AIDS activists and their international allies are seeking suspension of scheduled trade talks that threaten to undermine Thailand’s lawful ability to produce, import/export, and market low-cost generic versions of life-saving medicines.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    Thai trade deal to be challenged
    Australia’s booming trade relations with Thailand are in doubt as a constitutional court challenge against the countries’ free trade pact looms in Bangkok.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    Violence forces FTA venue switch
    Demonstrators scuffled with police at a downtown hotel, forcing a brief halt in bargaining on the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement between Thailand and the United States, and negotiators from the two countries decided to change the venue of their meeting.
  • 11-Jan-2006
    Anti-FTA protests end - for now
    Protesters from 11 civil society groups opposing the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement talks between Thailand and the United States forced negotiators to move out of town Wednesday. Then they called off their three-day protest.
  • 11-Jan-2006 IRC Americas Program
    New year sees delay in CAFTA implementation
    A key argument used by US transnationals and the Bush administration to pass the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)—that Central American countries themselves needed and wanted the agreement—has broken down on the eve of implementation of the controversial pact. This is a summary of the status of CAFTA implementation in each country.
  • 11-Jan-2006 CPTech
    Photos of demonstrations against US-Thai FTA (Chiang Mai, 10 January 2006)
    Today, around 8000 people were demonstrating in Chiang Mai. A couple of people trying to enter the hotel where the US and Thai negotiating teams were meeting were beaten by the police. 30 people tried to swim across the river to reach the hotel and were beaten too.
  • 11-Jan-2006 Bangkok Post
    Protests force brief halt to trade talks
    Negotiations on the Thai-US free trade area (FTA) pact were forced to halt briefly yesterday as protesters used any means they could to disrupt the talks.