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  • 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.
  • 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.