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  • 19-Dec-2005
    Pakistan and Tajikistan to sign trade agreement
    Pakistan and Tajikistan will enter a preferential trade agreement (PTA) soon and Islamabad has already sent proposals to Dushanbe, sources said on Sunday.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    Free trade
    THE idea of a Balkan General Free Trade Agreement, to replace existing bilateral free trade agreements, received support at an Athens meeting of the Association of Balkan Chambers, the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) said on December 12.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    First trade & investment mission to the USA completes successfully
    A 14-member delegation from the Bahrain American Chamber of Commerce has returned after a successful trade mission to the US.
  • 19-Dec-2005 Asia Pulse
    BIMSTEC countries to sign FTA early next year
    BIMSTEC (Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Co-operation) Trade Ministers will sign a free-trade deal on goods at their Dhaka meet early next year.
  • 19-Dec-2005 Prensa Latina
    Ecuador indigenous expect FTA defeat
    The fight against the Free Trade Area treaty with the US constitutes one of the priorities for the Ecuadorian Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE), the largest in the country.
  • 18-Dec-2005 VietNamNet
    What is the cost for missing the WTO train?
    Is Vietnam capable of signing an FTA when the essence of such an agreement is WTO++, with rules based on WTO rules? If we have not joined the WTO yet, how can we reach an FTA with Japan?
  • 18-Dec-2005
    BIMSTEC meet
    Like SAARC, the South and Southeast Asian BIMSTEC has also become another seven-nation grouping with the inclusion of Bhutan and Nepal in the first BIMSTEC Bangkok summit in 2004 and its 8th ministerial meeting will now take place in Dhaka on 19 December.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    Nation up against last WTO barrier
    Viet Nam was awaiting the removal of the last major barrier to its entry to the World Trade Organisation - the successful conclusion of bilateral negotiations with the United States - Deputy Trade Minister Luong Van Tu has told a Vietnam News Agency correspondent.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    GCC needs Fair Trade Agreements
    The GCC does not need Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), what it needs is Fair Trade agreements, said Mishal Hamed Kanoo, Deputy Chairman, the Kanoo Group, at the 4th GCC Economic Forum.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    GCC chief hails improving S.N. Korea relations
    GCC Secretary General HE Abdulrahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah has said that negotiations are now under way between GCC and China for earlier conclusion of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and that a legal framework is now being made in preparation for the FTA agreement with Korea.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    GCC chief expects free trade talks with China to end soon
    Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdul Rahman al-Attiya said here on Sunday that he hoped talks between the GCC and China on a free trade agreement will be concluded soon.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    NGO statement on need for WTO moratorium on regional and bilateral trade agreements undermining access to health
    NGOs call upon WTO Members and their trade negotiators to protect the public from the explosion of one-sided and harmful regional and bilateral trade agreements that impose TRIPS plus obligations on developing countries that undermine access to medicine.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    FTA - a passport of opportunities
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is a ’passport of opportunities’ and it is up to the business communities of both Bahrain and the US to see how best they can use this opportunity, the President of American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Samir Benmukhlouf, said yesterday.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    Japanese demand better standards
    Japanese fruit producers and exporters have called for their Thai counterparts to upgrade sanitary and food safety standards if they want to succeed in promoting Thai fruit consumption in Japan.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    China to begin FTA deals with trading partners from next year
    China will honour its free trade area (FTA) agreements with its trading partners, levy negotiated tariffs on some Indian goods and will also offer special preferential tariff rates to about 30 least developing countries next year, finance minister Jin Renqing said.
  • 16-Dec-2005 Khaleej Times
    GCC and European Union: 17-year old FTA negotiations
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and European Union (EU) have started since 1988. However, there have been always obstacles that prevented the achievement of a final agreement.
  • 16-Dec-2005 Ip-health
    Tonga’s WTO accession has TRIPS+ linkage
    Tonga acceded to the WTO yesterday and one of the conditions of it being allowed to join the WTO was to have TRIPS+ linkage of patent status and data exclusivity.
  • 16-Dec-2005 USCCB
    US economic and security interests enhanced by moral trade agreements
    The chairman of the bishops’ International Policy Committee Monday offered a Catholic perspective on a pending free trade agreement, suggesting that the United States and several Andean nations could simultaneously promote human dignity and fair and sustainable development.
  • 16-Dec-2005
    CRS Report for Congress: Andean-US FTA negotiations
    Given that CAFTA-DR passed only by a small margin, it is unclear how much support the U.S.-Andean FTA will have.
  • 16-Dec-2005 AP
    AELE: Accord de libre-échange signé avec la Corée du Sud
    Le ministre de l’économie fédéral Joseph Deiss et ses homologues de l’AELE ont signé jeudi à Hong Kong un accord de libre-échange avec la République de Corée. L’accord entrera en vigueur le 1er juillet prochain