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  • 7-Jan-2006 MCOT
    Thai-US FTA negotiations no impact on essential drugs
    Civil society sector is demanding that the Thai government not give in on reduction of tariffs for US agricultural product, not ratify the treaty on plant varieties protection, and not recognise patenting of biological resources. In addition, they said the Thai government must resist the US demand to extend protection of pharmaceutical patent to more than 20 years or to protect data exclusivity.
  • 7-Jan-2006 USTR
    US-Peru FTA (2005)
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Official: Uruguay to seek US, China free trade deals - Report
    The Uruguayan government plans to seek free trade agreements with the U.S. and China, Economy Minister Danilo Astori said in an interview published Thursday in a weekly Uruguayan magazine.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Uruguay Min rejects talk of US free trade deal - Report
    Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Reinaldo Gargano on Friday rejected an assertion made by Economy Minister Daniel Astori that the small South American nation is seeking a free trade deal with the U.S., according to Argentine media reports.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    A political placebo
    Opponents of the Australia-US free trade agreement are nothing if not obstinate - and opportunist. A year after the deal was done the world has not ended, but they still say catastrophe is imminent, especially for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Power play hurts the nation’s health
    The Labor Party’s 2004 amendments to the legislation enabling the free trade agreement with the US have nothing to do with good policy and everything to do with good politics.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    The high cost of free trade
    WHEN the free trade agreement with the United States kicked in a year ago, Bill Rush saw his big chance. His company, Australian Defence Apparel, makes ceramic plates to be worn over bulletproof vests to protect troops against armour-piercing fire.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Thai officials dispute opposition claims on free trade with US
    An official from Thailand’s bilateral Free Trade Agreement negotiating team today disputed claims by opposition groups that a free trade agreement with the US would adversely affect the country’s prescription drug market.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Thai-US FTA talks ’’unconstitutional’’, senate panel says
    The Senate committee on foreign affairs will petition the Constitutional Court on Tuesday to seek a review of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) proceedings, claiming they have contravened the constitution.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Korea, US agree to start FTA negotiations
    Korea and the U.S. could start negotiations for a free trade agreement in April, an insider said Friday. The government is reportedly thinking of announcing the expected benefits of an FTA in President Roh Moo-hyun’s New Year’s meeting with the press around Jan. 17. The FTA could be concluded around next March after a year or so of negotiations, the source added.
  • 6-Jan-2006
    Thai-US FTA: Kraisak turns up heat on Thaksin
    Opposition to a proposed Thai-US free-trade pact is threatening to escalate into a political time bomb, as a senator yesterday moved to challenge the deal’s constitutional legitimacy and called for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to step down.
  • 6-Jan-2006 Asia Pulse
    S. Korea, India adopt final framework on FTA talks
    South Korea and India adopted a final framework Friday to begin talks on a free trade agreement, Seoul officials said.
  • 6-Jan-2006 Manager
    IPR debate centers on cheap drugs
    The heated debate over intellectual property is one of the sticking points in the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Thailand and the United States, which are scheduled to resume next week.
  • 6-Jan-2006 PhRMA
    PhRMA statement on US-Egypt free trade agreement
    PhRMA believes that a strong FTA is in the interests of Egyptian patients as well as the business community.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Free and fair trade
    TWO new developments have raised alarm bells about the free trade agreement between Australia and the US.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    At last, a done deal
    Days before 2005 closed, Egypt and Turkey finally signed a free trade agreement (FTA) the negotiations of which began in 1997.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    OSG asks SC to reverse NAIA 3 ruling
    The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) yesterday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision allowing the government to take over Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) only after payment of an initial P3.002 billion to the Philippine International Air Terminals Co. (PIATCO) representing the proffered value of the facilities.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Rachid strikes trade deal with Turkey
    A high-powered Turkish delegation, headed by President Ahmed Necdet Sezer, arrived in Cairo last month to sign a free-trade deal with Egypt in what an editorial in the Turkish Daily News said could be a “turning point in relations between two regional powers.”
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Chian Mai meeting: 10,000 expected to protests US free-trade talks
    Farm workers, HIV/Aids, poverty NGOs vow to disrupt event. The sixth round of free-trade talks with the United States next week in Chiang Mai will face the wrath about 10,000 protesters from 12 special-interest groups which have vowed to rally throughout the five-day meeting.
  • 5-Jan-2006
    Ministry decries failure to benefit from trade pacts
    RELEGATION of the trade ministry to peripheral roles in anticipation that the private sector will drive development has made Uganda fail to benefit from regional and bilateral trade associations.