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  • 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.
  • 24-Apr-2006 Scoop
    Venezeula renounces Cartagena, leaves Andean Community
    Text of the letter in which Venezuela renounces the Cartagena Accord and withdraws from the Andean Community of Nations, translated by toni solo.
  • 24-Apr-2006 Farm Futures
    US ag groups mount support for Peru TPA
    The Agricultural Coalition for US-Peru Trade, comprised of 58 agricultural organizations, sent a letter last week to every member of US Congress urging support of the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement. The letter states that "PTPA sets a new and higher standard for future free trade agreements."
  • 24-Apr-2006 Campaign for Good Governance in Lebanon
    CJI calls for full implementation of the human rights and democracy clause in Article 2 of the Lebanese-European Association Agreement
    The Campaign for Judicial Integrity (CJI), a Lebanese policy and advocacy group active in promoting reform of the Lebanese judiciary and legal profession, urged the European Union to give the highest priority for the full implementation of the human rights and democracy clause in Article 2 of the Lebanese-European association agreement before fiscal reform and tax increases.
  • 24-Apr-2006 PCHR
    Punishing the victim: PCHR position paper on the decision to stop international aid to the Palestinian National Authority
    The Palestinian Center for Human Rights says that the EU has failed to enforce Article 2 of its Association Agreement with Israel and suspend the privileges given to Israel until it fulfills its obligations on human rights and democracy.
  • 24-Apr-2006 IPS
    Southern NGOs want greater say in agreements with EU
    Civil society organisations from a large group of developing countries are insisting on full participation in negotiations under way with the European Union.
  • 24-Apr-2006 Reuters
    Morocco textile industry adapting to free trade
    Morocco hopes to create as many textile industry jobs as it loses over a two-year period, the kingdom’s trade minister said.