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  • 30-Apr-2006 Korea Times
    Kaesong goods to be included in ASEAN FTA
    ASEAN’s free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea would recognize products made in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, the inter-Korean project, as South Korean products. This is in stark contrast to the politically sensitive nature of Kaesong in concurrent negotiations for an FTA with the United States.
  • 30-Apr-2006 LatinReporters.com
    Cuba-Venezuela-Bolivia: The Trade Treaty for the People (TCP)
    The Trade Treaty for the People " (TCP) that the presidents Fidel Castro (Cuba), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) and Evo Morales (Bolivia) signed at Havana is more about politics than trade.
  • 30-Apr-2006 Bangkok Post
    Biodiverse nations urged to join forces
    Thailand stands to lose even more valuable genetic resources if the country signs the Free Trade Area agreement with the United States in its present form. The FTA would allow the US easier access to Thailand’s genetic resources, said Tewolde Berhan, an Ethiopian expert on biodiversity.
  • 29-Apr-2006 AP
    Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela reject US trade
    Bolivia’s new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting US-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation.
  • 29-Apr-2006 AP
    Qatar halts trade talks with US
    Qatar has frozen bilateral free trade talks with the United States, saying Washington was imposing preconditions that were not in Doha’s interest.
  • 29-Apr-2006 Kyodo
    Japan, Vietnam agree to start official FTA talks
    Japan and Vietnam agreed on Friday to launch formal negotiations aimed at sealing a bilateral free trade agreement later this year.
  • 28-Apr-2006 Prensa Latina
    Comercio alternativo al TLC se incorporará al ALBA
    El gobierno boliviano manifestó hoy gran expectativa por la incorporación de su propuesta de Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos (TCP) dentro del proyecto Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas (ALBA).
  • 28-Apr-2006 Movimiento Boliviano por la Soberanía y la Integración solidaria de los pueblos: Contra el TLC y el ALCA
    TCP: For a just trade between peoples
    The Trade Treaty of the Peoples (TCP in Spanish) - proposed by President Evo Morales - is a response to the failure of the neo-liberal model, based as it is on deregulation, privatisation and the indiscriminate opening of markets.
  • 28-Apr-2006 Bangkok Post
    Anti-FTA group urges govt to abandon FTAs
    An activist group monitoring the Free Trade Area agreements between Thailand and other countries has urged the Government to stop negotiating now and give up plans to sign FTA accords with Japan and the United States.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    New FTA laws delay rapped
    An MP accused the Commerce and Industry ministry of sleeping yesterday after it asked parliament to push through six new laws that should activate Bahrain’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Final hurdle
    Six laws that should allow Bahrain’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US to be enacted were passed by MPs in a single sitting yesterday.It means the FTA could finally come into effect by July.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela to ink People’s Trade Treaty
    The governments of Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba next Saturday are initialing in Havana a pact to jump start the People’s Trade Treaty (TCP), Bolivian President Evo Morales said, as reported on Wednesday by several Bolivian media.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Seoul to exclude products from trade deal
    South Korea’s chief negotiator to free trade talks with the United States said Thursday that Seoul will try to exclude "super-sensitive products" from the deal, an apparent appeasement to farmers vehemently opposed to the pact.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    UAE, US to resume FTA talks next month
    The UAE and the United States will resume their Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks in Abu Dhabi on May 9, it was revealed here yesterday.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    ADB set to promote trade liberalization
    Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank would help promote regional trade liberalization as part of the institution’s mid- and long-term strategies.
  • 27-Apr-2006
    Viet Nam, Japan start second FTA study session in Tokyo
    Viet Nam and Japan began their second study session in Tokyo on April 26 to explore the possibility of signing a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 27-Apr-2006 Frontline
    Treaties to protect foreign investors
    Bilateral investment treaties have become potential weapons of multinational companies against developing country governments and societies. India has signed more than 50 of them. Yet BITs remain largely outside the domain of public discussion.
  • 27-Apr-2006 AP
    Chavez says South America should unite, reject US trade pacts
    South American nations will have to choose whether they want continental unity or individual trade agreements with the United States — but not both, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday.
  • 27-Apr-2006 stuff
    Two former US officials talk up NZ
    Two former senior United States officials have urged the US to re-start military exercises and start negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand.
  • 27-Apr-2006 Granma
    Guatemala: Between the sword and impotence
    As during the crudest times of interventionism in banana republics, James Derham, US proconsul in Guatemala, snuck into a session of Congress on April 18 to pressure legislators to approve — now! — a complimentary law being demanded by the United States so that the country definitely enters into a Free Trade Agreement.