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  • 12-May-2006
    UAE to resist US pressure to open telecoms sector: minister
    The United Arab Emirates will resist pressure in free trade talks with the United States to open its telecommunications sector to foreign investors.
  • 12-May-2006 Jakarta Post
    RI envisions free trade among D-8 member countries
    After breaking the ice by launching the preferential trade agreement among Developing Eight (D-8) countries, Indonesian Trade Minister Mari E. Pangestu envisions that the agreement would lead to a free trade arrangement for member countries in less than 15 years.
  • 12-May-2006 Washington File
    Imports of rice at issue in US trade negotiations with Korea
    Rice, the staple food for much of Asia, will doubtless be a tough issue in negotiations on a US-South Korea free-trade agreement (FTA) and could be an issue in US-Malaysia FTA talks, US experts say.
  • 12-May-2006 Xinhua
    EU rules out FTA talks with Andean Community in near future
    European Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner on Thursday ruled out the possibility of holding talks with the Andean Community over a free trade agreement.
  • 12-May-2006 Grist Magazine
    Beans for Lima: Activists are fighting a new agreement between the US and Peru
    What are the environmental impacts of the Peruvian-US free-trade agreement?
  • 12-May-2006 Prensa Latina
    Guatemala anti-FTA vigil grows
    More popular organizations have joined the on-going vigil in front of the Guatemalan Constitutional Court, where a bill against the free trade agreement with the US is being discussed Thursday.
  • 12-May-2006 Xinhua
    Morales urges Latin American countries to kill FTA with US
    Bolivia’s President Evo Morales on Thursday urged Colombia, Peru and Ecuador to kill their free trade agreements with the United States, so as to keep the Andean Community alive. Meanwhile, Peru’s President Alejandro Toledo said the Andean Community would now seek to launch trade talks with the EU, with or without Venezuela and Bolivia.
  • 12-May-2006 Korea Times
    FTA summary to be reported to National Assembly next week
    A summary of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is expected to be presented by the Ministry of Finance and Economy to the National Assembly next week, while an exchange of agreement drafts with the US is expected on May 19.
  • 11-May-2006 INQ7
    Japan agrees to non-quota deployment of nurses—RP exec
    Discussions on the labor component of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) finally moved forward after Japan agreed to a non-quota deployment of Filipino nurses and caregivers, a labor official said.
  • 11-May-2006 ANDnetwork
    Morocco, Egypt to strengthen trade ties
    Despite a free trade agreement between Morocco and Egypt, entered in force in 1999, trade exchanges remain meager between the two.
  • 11-May-2006 MercoPress
    Divided Latin America arrives in Vienna summit
    A deeply divided Latin America, in the midst of several growing conflicts, meets with the European Union 25 leaders in the framework of the two regions’ fourth summit.
  • 11-May-2006 Bernama
    Malaysia not bound to finalise FTA with US by 2007
    Malaysia’s International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz cited the financial sector as one area that Malaysia cannot open up at a faster pace. She noted that it was the US — not Malaysia — which made the approach on the FTA.
  • 11-May-2006 Gulf News
    No date set for next round of UAE-US free trade talks
    The fifth round of free trade negotiations between the UAE and the United States ended in Abu Dhabi yesterday without agreement. The closely guarded negotiations, held amid a virtual media blackout, centred around two core issues: investment and labour laws.
  • 11-May-2006 PTI
    Sonia’s letter on FTA: BJP demands PM’s resignation
    Terming as “public humiliation” of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s letter to him on free trade agreements, BJP on Wednesday demanded his resignation and asked government to make public both the letters and the pacts signed so far.
  • 11-May-2006 Prensa Latina
    Guatemalan orgs: No US FTA
    The COS (Social Organizations Group) and the MISPEC (Guatemalan indigenous, farmer and popular movement) have joined the vigil Wednesday in front of the Guatemalan Constitutional Court to reject the free trade agreement with the United States.
  • 10-May-2006 Xinhua
    Colombia postpones signing FTA with US: official
    Colombia will postpone signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United State because its English version was inconsistent with the original bilateral pact.
  • 10-May-2006 AP
    Singapore urges EU to forge trade deal
    Singapore on Tuesday urged the European Union to negotiate a free trade agreement to strengthen their trade and investment ties.
  • 10-May-2006 AAP
    Australia, Japan set to launch FTA talks
    Australia and Japan expect to launch negotiations on a free trade deal late this year or early in 2007, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said.
  • 9-May-2006
    DR-CAFTA expected to compel curricula revisions in universities
    Education minister suggested this Tuesday that universities in the country should be subject of a revision of their respective curricula in light of the upcoming Free Trade Agreement with the Central America and the United States.
  • 9-May-2006
    Free trade agreements: complicated but unavoidable
    The 16th Inter-Pacific Bar Association Conference, held in Sydney last week, provided a forum to illustrate the enormous impact FTAs have on the economic and social aspects of their respective countries and the legal issues underlying them.